Broad term covering various developments in French painting that developed out of Impressionism in the period from about 1880 to about 1905. Some of these developments built on the achievements of Impressionism, but others were reactions against its concentration on surface appearances, seeking to reintroduce a concern with emotional and symbolic values. The term was coined in 1910 by the British art critic Roger Fry, in the title of ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’, an exhibition he organized at the Grafton Galleries, London. Fry also organized a second post-Impressionist exhibition two years later. The artists who were best represented at the first exhibition were Cézanne , Gauguin , and van Gogh , and these three are regarded as the most important and influential of the post-Impressionists, closely followed by Georges Seurat . Seurat was the founder of the movement called neo-Impressionism , in which artists attempted to treat colour and light with the same affection as the…