With Impressionist art, we see a detachment from a focus to accurate detail and drift to a style that focuses on an impression of what we see with our eyes. What our eyes see is more important than what our brain retains. Vibrant time lapses shown through color are brought to life through small brush strokes. The lighting and color takes center stage. Still grounded in realism, but with the colors taking priority. Above we see "Bluebonnets" by Julian Onderdonk.(I could not find a year for this painting). Notice how the light from the sky shows a midday bleeding into evening lighting that reflects onto the the trees and flowers. This is impressionism at its best. Through the lighting, we are given a gorgeous view of a scene right before dusk. The changing quality of the lighting really brings this painting to life.
"To me, van Gogh is the finest painter of them all. His command of color is the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world... To my mind, that strange wild man was not just one the worlds greatest artist, but one of the greatest men who ever lived." - Steven Moffat
When I look at this painting I think of "Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins.
Post Impressionist art continues where Impressionist art left off, honoring its fundamentals while also breaking the rules with color restriction. Here the emphasis is on the gold and blue and black colors, while having a very round theme. The stars are spherical as is the shoreline. As impressionist art conveys light realistically, here the light is, I don't want to use the term exaggerated, because that sounds ever so cheapening, but rather exhilarated. That is not the proper use of the word, but that is what my gut is telling me to write. It's as if the heavens and the earth are existing close together in one perfect silent moment.
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