Week 2: Romanticism on the Continent and North ... Week 4: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Impressionism (with much post-Impressionism) was almost the last flowering of the traditional ethos that ...

Impressionism started as a derogatory ... and self-destruction. Symbolist art was related to Romanticism but was much more dark and morbid. There was death, decay, and unhealthy perverse sensuality.