what technique did vincent van gogh use in his paintings?
Post-Impressionism
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 Van Gogh used the Impressionist concept of broken color to give light to a work , innovatively drawing in color , giving the painting light and form , as he also did in his paintings of plowed fields , mountains , rocks , and heads and figures . The series is unified by a more refined approach , without the thick application of paint to which he was more accustomed . 

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 Vincent Willem van Gogh ( Dutch : [ ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləm vɑn ˈɣɔx ] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 ) was a Dutch Post @-@ Impressionist painter whose work had a far @-@ reaching influence on 20th @-@ century art . In just over a decade he produced over 2100 artworks , including around 860 oil paintings , the majority created in the last two years of his life . They include portraits , self @-@ portraits , landscapes , still lifes , olive trees , cypresses , wheat fields and sunflowers , and are characterised by symbolic colourisation and dramatic , impulsive and highly expressive paintwork . He sold only one painting during his lifetime and was largely unnoticed by critics until his suicide , aged 37 , which followed years of restless anxiety , poverty and mental illness . 

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 A parallel development may be seen in Rembrandt 's skill as a printmaker . In the etchings of his maturity , particularly from the late 1640s onward , the freedom and breadth of his drawings and paintings found expression in the print medium as well . The works encompass a wide range of subject matter and technique , sometimes leaving large areas of white paper to suggest space , at other times employing complex webs of line to produce rich dark tones . 

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 The landscape paintings of Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind ( 1819 – 1891 ) influenced both Boudin and Monet and contributed to the development of early Impressionism . After meeting Jongkind in Sainte @-@ Adresse in 1862 , Monet began to cultivate an interest in Jongkind 's perspective on the changing conditions of the landscape . From Jongkind , Monet learned to substitute optical color for local color . " Complementing the teaching I received from Boudin , Jongkind was from that moment my true master , " Monet later reminisced . " It was he who completed the education of my eye " . This new way of seeing , a shift from a conceptual to a perceptual approach , formed the basis for Monet 's Haystacks ( 1890 @-@ 1891 ) , a series of 25 works showing the effects of dynamic atmospheric conditions over time on a single haystack motif . 

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 Painting the countryside , the surrounding fields , cypress trees and olive trees restored Van Gogh 's connection to nature through art . He completed at least 18 paintings in 1889 of " venerable , gnarled olive trees , " pervasive throughout southern France , of which he wrote : 
