Vincent Van Gogh's Art Analysis

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Vincent van Gogh, who is amongst the most famous Post-Impressionist artists, who paintings are exceptionally unique. One characteristic that made Van Gogh’s art unique was his dramatic, yet expressive personal style he added on to his work. Van Gogh was an art dealer, teacher, and evangelist before he decided to pursue being an artist. When Van Gogh moved to Paris, it led to him gaining exposure to the Parisian avant-garde. From there, Van Gogh tailored Seurat’s pointillism, by applying brilliant colored paint in multi-directional strokes of impasto. (999) This technique gave Van Gogh’s pictures in my opinion a very powerful emotional energy and a “palpable surface texture.” (999) In Van Gogh’s painting, according to the text, he strived

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