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Key Characteristics In Vincent Van Gogh's Paintings

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The key characteristics in Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings and drawings:
 Vincent Van Gogh’s artworks are very famous and even relevant today due to the bold and dramatic brush strokes that were present in his paintings, which expressed emotions that he had, emotions that he felt about the subject or landscape matter and the feeling of movement. He used the deep and impulsive application of paint and symbolic colours (for example, Van Gogh used yellows which represents happiness, brightness, freshness and positive energy) to express subject emotions and his emotions as well.
 Van Gogh always depicted figure drawings and landscapes using the correct perspective, making sure he captures the subject matter on how he views it. Due to the emotion …show more content…

Because Gauguin wanted to find the direct relationship between the natural worlds that he witnessed in various communities, he wanted the painting to speak for itself about how he feels about the subject matter through the colours that he had used.

The key characteristics in Paul Cezanne’s paintings and drawings:
 Paul Cezanne is known as the man who regarded colour, line, form and his unique and odd take on perspective as inseparable aspects that needed to be included in his artworks. This take on these aspects was very unpopular at the time, but he described that he used these inseparable aspects to describe how the human eye actually views and experiences nature.
 Cezanne was not satisfied and did not necessarily agree with the rules of Impressionism that one has to base his artwork on the primary reflection of visual perception, and they have to mimic and paint what they see. Paul Cezanne decided to base his artworks on a more analytical perspective, whereby he used analytical discipline to paint what he knows instead of what he sees.
 In his paintings, Cezanne used distinct and methodical brushstrokes to create an image, and this was done through ‘constructing’ the artwork instead of ‘painting’ the

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