What style of artwork did Vincent Van Gogh paint?

Question

I know there is different styles of artwork involving painting but what type did Vincent Van Gogh specialize in?

Answer 1

Van Gogh is not an impressionist painter. Open an art history book and you will find him in a category with Lautrec, Degas and Gauguin,etc called "Post-Impressionism". The problem was these four artists all painted in different styles and were painting at the same time and were not impressionists but did not advance their painting into their own"school" so what do they call them Post Impressionists because they didn't know how to categorize them. This means we get to name Van Gogh's style if you can put it in a box. Nobody else really painted like him for hundreds of years until we get to the action painters or expressionists. He was unique.

Answer 2

He specialized in his OWN style. It's related very much to what the impressionists were doing - his brother Theo who supported him was an art dealer who worked with impressionists. But Van Gogh's style was very much his own. It was later grouped into what's called Post-Impressionism. But it's important to realize that van Gogh never thought of himself as "specializing" in another other than finding his own way to create paintings, and the phrase "Post-impressionism" did not exist when he was alive.

Answer 3

Van Gogh (pronounced Gock) hand an influence on 3 different styles of paintings. He started with one style and was painting an entirely different style at the time of his death. His early paintings have a different appearance than his later paintings.

The three styles he influence are: expressionism, fauvism and early abstraction. Take your pick of which one you want.