An introductory text reflects on how these artists both
inherit and
reject the
traditions of their adopted genres, and three essays provide close readings of a key portrait (Henri de Toulouse Lautrec's «La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge»), still - life (Paul Cézanne's «Still Life with Ginger Jar,» «Sugar Bowl» and «Oranges»), and landscape (Van Gogh's «The Olive Trees») from the dawn of modernism, and expand to consider subsequent works.