Hi-Q Art History Study Guide

Emile Bernard

CLOISONNIST: Painted Buckwheat Harvest.

The Rosicrucians

Focused on spirituality and dreams.

Vincent Van Gogh

NEO-IMPRESSIONIST/EXPRESSIONIST: Painted The Artist's Room at Arles, Interior of a Restaurant, Potato Eaters, a series of 12 paintings called Sunflowers, Vincent's Chair, The Prisoner's Round, Starry Night, Crows in the Wheatfields, and Self-portrait with Shaven Head.

Albert Dubois-Pillet

NEO-IMPRESSIONIST: Painted The Marne at Dawn.

Paul Signac

NEO-IMPRESSIONIST: Painted The Milliner, Entrance to the Port of Marseilles, and Portrait of Félix Fénéon.

Georges Seurat

NEO-IMPRESSIONIST: Pioneered Pointillism. // Painted Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, View of Montmartre, and Bathers at Asnières.

James Ensor

POINT-AVEN ATTENDEE: Painted Entrance of Christ into Brussels. // Hated contemporary society, this painting included haunting faces to display the emptiness of the aristocracy.

Pierre Bonnard

POINT-AVEN SCHOOL ATTENDEE: Painted Behind the Fence.

Paul Ranson

POINT-AVEN SCHOOL ATTENDEE: Painted Nani Landscape.

Paul Ganguin

POST IMPRESSIONIST: Painted Self-portrait, Nirvana, Ta Matete, and Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?. // Rejected Western modern art and fled from Europe to gain complete creative expression.

Paul Cézanne

POST-IMPRESSIONIST: Painted The Large Bathers, Mont Sainte-Victoire, and Woman with Coffee Pot. // Often painted geometry and the human body, hence his BATHERS paintings. // His geometric approach later intertwined with Cubism.

Maurice Denis

Painted Homage to Cézanne

Jean Moréas

SYMBOLIST POET: Published Le Figaro.

Charles Baudelaire

SYMBOLIST POET: Published Les Fleurs du Mal.

Gustave Moreau

SYMBOLIST: Painted Salome Dancing Before Herod, The Apparition, The Song of Songs, and The Unicorns.

Odilon Redon

SYMBOLIST: Painted The Cyclops. // Known for his art including bewildering and contorted images that are real and unreal, human and monstrous.

Puvis de Chavannes

SYMBOLIST: Painted The Poor Fisherman. // Contrasts Gustave Moreau, but still a symbolist.