Wheatfield with cypresses

Post-Impressionism, in Western painting, movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style’s inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul

How you arrange darks and lights in the picture creates the structure of a painting. To make a composition successful and interesting for the viewer, plan a strong value structure. Squinting helps seeing simplified shapes, when you squint it’s easier to “see” the value structure.

Wheatfield with Cypresses(1889)-Detail #Gogh

Vincent van Gogh - Post-Impressionist, Paintings, Artwork: His artistic career was extremely short, lasting only the 10 years from 1880 to 1890. During the first four years of this period, while acquiring technical proficiency, he confined himself almost entirely to drawings and watercolours. First, he went to study drawing at the Brussels Academy; in 1881 he moved to his father’s parsonage at Etten, Netherlands, and began to work from nature. Van Gogh worked hard and methodically but soon…

Post-Impressionism, in Western painting, movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style’s inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. All of these painters except van Gogh were French, and most of them began as Impressionists; each of…

Van Gogh

free cross stitch pattern based on Van Gogh painting of a wheat field.