Post Impressionist is an art movement which developed from year 1880 to year 1914 essentially from French. Post Impressionist was extended from Impressionism and it against the fundamental limitation impressionism style. Impressionism was started by a group of artists, spearheaded by Claude Monet, who were denied by the Salon because of their unconventional approach to painting. Their first group exhibition was held in Paris in 1874, including with Monet’s Impression: Sunrise which had received the harshest critique. Between 1874 to 1876, they exhibited together eight times in Paris and called themselves the Anonymou Society of Painters, Sculptors,and Printmakers. The exhibition was marked as a percolating rebellion against the Academic Salon. Overall, Impressionism not only broke the authority of the Salon, but also changed the aesthetic value of art from historical subjects to genre themes. Impressionism also remarked as a breaking free from naturalism.
There are two distinct effects on impressionism painting: Impressionist interpret the vision of a world developed color to the status of the subject matter. Furthermore, it also reasserted
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One of his most painting artwork is “Luncheon on the Grass” was exhibited during the Salon des Refuses which means Salon of rejected works. The composition of “Luncheon on the Grass” was borrowed from a traditional print. Besides, the subject matter of the nude women with clothed men in an idealized landscape is borrowed from Giorgione's painting - Pastoral Concert. The Luncheon on the Grass places the figures in the same sort of forest and the centre is opened up to a limited depth. The bending woman in the middle distance show as the apex of the classical triangle of which the three foreground figures serve as the base and sides. The Salon was shocked with the content that the nude lady was comfortable sitting with two fully clothed