2. Post-Impressionism
• differences in emotional expression
and subject choices between the
Impressionists and the Post-
Impressionists.
• Post-Impressionist experimentation
with form and color.
• individuality of the Post-Impressionist
artists and the styles each one
developed.
3. Figure 29-34 VINCENT VAN GOGH, The Night Café, 1888. Oil on canvas, approx. 2’ 4 1/2”
x 3’. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A., 1903).
4. Figure 29-35 VINCENT VAN GOGH, Starry Night, 1889. Oil on canvas, approx. 2’ 5” x 3’
1/4”. Museum of Modern Art, New York (acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest).
5. Figure 29-36 PAUL GAUGUIN, The Vision after the Sermon or Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel, 1888. Oil on canvas, 2’ 4 3/4” x 3’ 1/2”. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
6. Post-Impressionist
Experimentation
• experimentation with form and color.
7. Figure 29-37 PAUL GAUGUIN, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are
We Going?, 1897. Oil on canvas, 4’ 6 13/ 16” x 12’ 3”. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(Tompkins Collection).
11. Figure 29-40 PAUL CÉZANNE, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902–1904. Oil on canvas, 2’ 3 1/2” x
2’ 11 1/4”. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
12. Figure 29-41 PAUL CÉZANNE, The Basket of Apples, ca. 1895. Oil on canvas, 2’ 3/8” x 2’
7”. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926).
13. Symbolism
• issues of imagination, fantasy, and
formal changes in the art of the
Symbolists.
• “modern psychic life” in the art of the
Symbolists.
14. Figure 29-42 PIERRE PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, The Sacred Grove, 1884. Oil on canvas,
2’ 11 1/2” x 6’ 10”. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Potter Palmer Collection).
15. Figure 29-43 GUSTAVE MOREAU, Jupiter and
Semele, ca. 1875. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ x 3’ 4”.
Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris.
16. Figure 29-43 GUSTAVE MOREAU, Jupiter
and Semele, ca. 1875. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’
x 3’ 4”. Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris.
17. Figure 29-44 ODILON REDON,
The Cyclops, 1898. Oil on canvas,
2’ 1” x 1’ 8”. Kröller-Müller
Museum, Otterlo, The
Netherlands.
18. Figure 29-45 HENRI ROUSSEAU, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897. Oil on canvas, 4’ 3” x 6’ 7”.
Museum of Modern Art, New York (gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim).