The following summarizes what a student should have learned from reading this chapter of A History of Western Art.

It is assumed that students can identify all works by title, artist (if known), culture (or nationality) and time period, medium, and style. It is also assumed that students will look up and be able to define the bolded key terms. In addition, further examples of what a student should be familiar with are listed below.

After reading Chapter 25, you should be able to do the following:

1. Distinguish Post-Impressionism from Impressionism.
2. Comment on the autobiographical elements in the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, and Munch.
3. Discuss Post-Impressionist developments in the theme of the reclining nude.
4. Describe the characteristic brushstrokes of each artist in the chapter.
5. Compare Manet’s development from the 1860s to the 1880s with Cézanne’s change to color.
6. Discuss the style and role of Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters.
7. Describe the Symbolist movement in art and literature.
8. Discuss the assimilation of Classical myth in Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.
9. Discuss the features of Rousseau’s The Dream and their relation to twentieth-century Surrealism.
10. Describe the four mechanisms of dreaming outlined by Freud and apply them to the appropriate paintings in the chapter.
11. Compare Symbolism with Post-Impressionism.
12. Find Tahiti on a map of Oceania.
13. Discuss Gauguin’s synthesis of Symbolism and Post-Impressionism with the forms and myths of Classical antiquity and Tahiti.