Post-Impressionism and the Turn-of-the-Century Art Notes
Read Discovering Art History, chapter 13.2 and 13.3, pages 430-445
Post-Impressionism time period __________________
Key Ideas
Post Impressionists combined color and light theory of the Impressionists with
design and composition of traditional painting
Post-Impressionists produced in a variety of unique styles
Many painters expressed bleakness of urban life
Vocabulary
Expressionists
Pointillism
Primitive
Symbolism
Post-Impressionist Paintings to Know
Georges Seurat, Un dimanche Paul Cezanne, Le Mont St.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
après-midi a I’lle de les
Victoire, 1902-1904, oil on
Moulin Rouge: La Goule,
Grande Jatte (Sunday
canvas, 28 x 35 ¼”,
1891, lithograph in 4 colors
Afternoon on the Island of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on paper, 191 X 117 cm,
Grande Jatte), 1884-86, oil
USA. (p432)
private collection. (p434)
on canvas, 81 ½ x 121”, The
Museum of the Art Institute
of Chicago, IL, USA. (p430)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
At the Moulin-Rouge, 18921895, oil on canvas, 48 ½ x
55 ½”, Art Institute of
Chicago, Illinois, USA. (p435)
Vincent VanGogh, Starry
Night, June, 1889, oil on
canvas, 29 ¼ x 36 ½”, The
Museum of Modern Art, New
York, NY, USA. (p436)
Vincent VanGogh, Bedroom
in Arles, Saint-Remy,
September 1889, oil on
canvas. Art Institute of
Chicago, IL, USA.
Vincent VanGogh, SelfPortrait, 1889, Oil on canvas,
25 ½ x 21 ¼ “, Musee
d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Vincent VanGogh, The
Roadmenders, Saint-Remy:
November, 1889, oil on
canvas, The Cleveland
Museum of Art, OH, USA
Paul Gauguin, Vision After
the Sermon, 1888, oil on
canvas, 28 ¾ x 36 ¼”,
National Galleries, Scotland.
(p438)
More Turn-of-the-Century Paintings to Know
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893, oil and
Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897,
tempera on cardboard, 35 ¾ x 29”, National oil on canvas, 50 ¾ x 79”, Museum of
Gallery, Oslo, Norway. (p440)
Modern Art, New York, City, USA. (p444)
Turn-of-the-Century Architecture to Know
Gustave Eiffel, The Eiffel
Tower, 1887-1889, steel,
1,063’ tall, Paris, France.