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Saturday, December 30, 1972
EXHIBITION OF POST-IMPRESSIONISTS OFENS
At City Museum And Art Gallery
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An exhibition of reproductions of Post-Impressionist paintings
opens today at the City Museum and Art Gallery.
This includes 50 large colour prints of the work of Cezanne,
Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Redon.
General introductions to the styles of each artist and commentaries
on each painting are included in the exhibition.
The exhibition is a sequel to the exhibition of the Impressionists
held in the past month.
Both exhibitions are of educational nature, illustrating how
artists of the late nineteenth century paved the way for modern art of this
century.
The Impressionists made one important contribution to further
developments of Western art - they brought to colour a feeling of freshness
and luminosity.
However, their extreme experimentation to represent light as recorded
by the human retina finally led to the dissolution of form and structure.
A number of individual artists saw the danger of this and began to
seek new directions.
These
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