Emerging as a reaction against the Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. Post- impressionism artists fought to bring back the focus on the subject matter and the structure in paintings that they felt was lost.
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Post-impressionism, like the Impressionism art movement, is considered to be one of the earliest avant-garde movements of the 19th century. The concerns of the major and most influential painters and sculptures that helped to create the impressionism style produced the works that focused on the investigation of the perception of the eye, the presentation of the shifting nature of light, and the depictions of the everyday life in the streets, parks, cafés, and bars.
