A civil engineer with a bachelor of science from Purdue University, Bashir Abubakar Audu serves as an assistant project manager with the Walsh Group in Dallas, Texas. Outside of the professional arena, Bashir Audu is a fan of post-impressionist art.
With origins that stretch back to the early 1880s, the art movement known as post-impressionism was born out of the work of impressionists, such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Post-impressionism retained elements of impressionism’s optic experimentalism, but built on them with techniques that would later serve as the foundation for cubism and abstract expressionism. Key figures in the post-impressionism movement include Paul Cezanne and Georges Seurat.
Although post-impressionism encompassed a range of individualized styles, it also shared a few defining characteristics, including a reliance on highly personal meanings and symbolism to connect with viewers on a deeper level. Also, post-impressionist painters typically used color and shape to produce optical effects that go beyond mere representation to produce a more profound expression of the world around them.
