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Why is Self-portrait with palette by Paul Gauguin a post-impressionism piece of art?

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Post impressionism established self-worth or symbolic and highly personal meanings. In this period, they were breaking away from academic art. This would fall closely to Cubism or Abstract expressionism.
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