Still Life Vase with Rose-Mallows Vincent van Gogh Date: 1890; Auvers-sur-oise, France * Style: Post-Impressionism Genre: flower painting Media: oil, canvas Dimensions: 29 x 42 cm Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Impressionism movement was a change from traditional artistic techniques. With Impressionism the intention was to depict colors and images the way they are seen, not the way that artists were taught to paint them. Aspects of Impressionism include using gleaming spots of light, color in shadows, colors straight from the tube in dots or dashes, and dissolving firm outlines.
Van Gogh was influenced by Impressionists Edgar Degas and Claude Monet, but even more so by Neo-impressionist Georges Seurat, partly because of the use of dots of contrasting colors to intensify the image, a technique called Pointillism. Van Gogh likened painting with constructing small, thoughtfully placed dashes of color to writing "words in a speech or a letter".
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