In The Starry Night, a cypress and sky are built from thick, curling ridges of blue and yellow paint. How is the paint handled?

The swirling sky in The Starry Night is not a literal record of the view from Van Gogh's window. What priority replaces Impressionist observation?

In Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire, blocks of blue, green, and ochre lock the landscape into broad planes. What visual goal do those planes serve?

A Cézanne still life tilts its tabletop and lets fruit, plate, and cloth seem to shift against one another. What is the artist investigating?

In A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884, small points of color remain distinct across figures, grass, and water. Which method is most evident?

The figures in A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 stand stiffly in an ordered, stage-like arrangement. How does this differ from a casual Impressionist snapshot?

Vision of the Sermon sets Breton women and Jacob's struggle against a flat red field, divided by a diagonal tree trunk. What does the flat color help establish?

A poster shows a cancan dancer as a pale, cropped silhouette amid large lettering and flat color. Which artist made this kind of Paris street image central to his work?

Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire again and again because the mountain rose near his hometown. Which town was it?

Compare a Monet haystack with a Cézanne still life. The first changes with light; the second makes fruit and vessels read as weighty forms. What changed?

Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in 1889, working partly from memory of the view from his window. Where was he living then?

Compare a Monet garden with Gauguin's Vision of the Sermon. Gauguin encloses flat areas of color in bold dark outlines, like enamelwork. What is this approach called?

Seurat showed A Sunday on La Grande Jatte in Paris in 1886, where its method stood out as a challenge to Impressionism. At which exhibition did it appear?

Seurat's systematic method of placing separate points of color in an even mesh launched a new movement. What is it called?

Compare Degas's theater images with Toulouse-Lautrec's Moulin Rouge poster. Both crop figures at the frame and use flat areas of color. Which shared source inspired these choices?

Compare an Impressionist boulevard scene with Toulouse-Lautrec's Moulin Rouge poster. Why do its few flat colors and silhouettes work for its intended audience?

Cézanne built apples, cloth, and vessels from planes of color seen from shifting viewpoints. Which later movement took this approach as a key model?

Van Gogh's thick, directional brushwork in The Starry Night makes the sky feel active. What does the visible mark contribute?

In The Night Café, Van Gogh sets red walls against green furnishings under harsh gas lamps. What did he use this clash of color to express?

Seurat placed separate touches of unmixed pigment side by side in La Grande Jatte. What result was this intended to produce?

A student calls all broken brushwork “Pointillism.” What feature must be present before that label is accurate for Seurat's method?

In Vision of the Sermon, a tree trunk cuts diagonally across the red field. What does it separate?

Why did Toulouse-Lautrec use color lithography for posters such as Moulin Rouge. La Goulue?

Gauguin made Vision of the Sermon in Pont-Aven, Brittany, where Breton women imagine Jacob wrestling an angel. Which movement best describes its emphasis on inner vision?

The flattened space and strong contour in Gauguin's Vision of the Sermon reflect his interest in which kind of art?

Why was Brittany important to Gauguin as he moved beyond Impressionism?

Gauguin went to Tahiti hoping to find what he described as an unspoiled tropical paradise. What artistic aim did this hope serve?

Gauguin's large Tahitian canvas Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is meant to be read from right to left. What broad theme organizes the scene?

Cézanne painted more than forty views of Mont Sainte-Victoire from different places and in several media. What does this repeated motif let him investigate?

Moulin Rouge. La Goulue was commissioned by the Moulin Rouge director for a season launch. What was the poster's primary function?

The large blank white area of Moulin Rouge. La Goulue forms the dancer's skirt rather than being fully printed. What does this choice demonstrate?

What print process did Toulouse-Lautrec use for Moulin Rouge. La Goulue?

The Moulin Rouge that Toulouse-Lautrec advertised in his 1891 poster was a dance hall in which Paris neighborhood?

Van Gogh painted The Night Café in 1888, showing an all-night café near his home in southern France. In which town was it?

Why is Vision of the Sermon not simply an illustration of a Breton church service?