French country is olive light, lavender fields, sun-cracked stone walls, and the warm ochres of southern France. Eight paintings that hold the register — Cézanne, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet — and the room palette that lets them sing.

Once Impressionism had taught everyone to see colour as light, the next generation asked what painting could do that photography could not. A reader's guide to Post-Impressionism — Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat.

The kitchen wall has to survive steam, splatter, oblique light, and the rotation of dishes laid out below it. Six paintings that hold up — Dutch still life, Cézanne's apples, classical fruit, botanical Haeckel.