Chapter Summary

After reading Chapter 23, you should be able to:

• Identify the works and define the terms in the chapter.

• Compare Post-Impressionism with Impressionism.

• Trace the development of style and subject matter in the paintings of Cézanne.

• Discuss "pointillism."

• Trace the development of color in the work of Van Gogh.

• Discuss the influence of Japanese prints on Post-Impressionism.

• Compare Symbolism with Post-Impressionism.

• Describe Gauguin's relationship to Tahiti.

• Discuss Fin de Siecle developments in Europe, Aestheticism and Art Nouveau.

• Discuss the Vienna Secession.

• Relate the mechanisms of dreaming to Rousseau's The Dream.