Patrick Bade
Post Impressionism
Summary
Patrick Bade discusses the style and work of the four great post-Impressionist painters: Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Seurat. While there’s very little common denominator stylistically between these four artists, each of them was liberated by the impressionist revolution. The impressionists had been liberated from academic ways of seeing and academic techniques, so they could try out different things. But all four of these artists are actually diametrically reacting against the central philosophy of impressionism.
Patrick Bade
Patrick Bade is a historian, writer, and broadcaster. He studied at UCL and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was a senior lecturer at Christie’s Education for many years and has worked for the Art Fund, Royal Opera House, National Gallery, and V&A. He has published on 19th- and early 20th-century paintings and historical vocal recordings. His latest book is Music Wars: 1937–1945.
He’s self-taught. Yes, he didn’t study formally at all.
Certainly, most of the expressionists, particularly the German expressionists, and, of course, the French folk painters were very, very influenced by van Gogh. And I think, as I said, you could call him, in a way, an expressionist before the term was invented.