A movement primarily centered on four artists—Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne—who in the late 1880s sought to break free from Impressionism. Though all markedly different, these four artists—as well as other artists associated with the movement—were united both in their rejection of Impressionism’s emphasis on optical perception and in their preference for painting that expressed emotion and symbolism, often through reduced colors and forms and an increased focus on subjective imagery.