Post-Impressionism

The Post-Impressionist period was one of solitary painters; Gauguin, Sisley, Cezanne, Van Gogh etc... "e;There is no longer a unique school. There are a few groups, but even they break up constantly. All these movements remind me of moving geometrical pieces in a kaleidoscope, which separate suddenly only to better come together again. They move apart then get together, but, nevertheless, stay in the same circle - the circle of the new art."e; (Emile Verhaeren). Nathalia Brodskaia, curator at the State Hermitage Museum, describes with her own unsurpassed talent the different paths taken by the heirs of Impressionism towards Modern Art.