The term ‘Post-Impressionism’ has only one meaning: ‘after Impressionism’. Impressionism being a phenomenon unique to French painting, the idea of Post-Impressionism is also closely linked to French art.
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The term was coined for Roger Fry’s London exhibition “Manet and the Post- Impressionists” in 1910, which included Cezanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso; the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1912 included the Fauves, Vlaminck, Derain, and Braque.
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