What Post Impressionists Were Painting?

The next generation of artists could only respond to what they saw as trivial spontaneity with a slower, more ponderous investigation of the form and order that the impressionists rejected. Each was fascinated by the act of painting itself, and perhaps more importantly, the act of looking. Seratt, for example, never did anything spontaneously. Instead preferring to leave his static bourgeoisie parisians to rust on the banks of the seine as he painstakingly built up pure color. His theory was that we all look at things subjectively, but ther an objective, scientific principle underpinning what we see. And just maybe there's an objective way to capture all this subjectivity, if we just experiment