If you have
access to pictures of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings and those of Claude Monet and Pissarro,
especially, you will easily see differneces between Post-Impressionism and
Impressionism.
In the pictorial biography "Van Gogh" writeen by
Rainer Metzger and Ingo F. Walther this is written:
His
pictures were a means of illustrating and backing up his view of the world. When vanGogh
considered the works of art he saw, he was not applying technical or compositional standards, or
assessing colour values; his criteria were not aesthetic. Instead, he was after expression of
his own ideas. His approach to art was distinctly literary in character: he expected pictures
to tell stories with which he could identify.
These
remarks explain the the Post-Impressionists: Like the Impressionists, they painted...
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