Impressionists tried to paint light as it appeared to the eye when it reflected from the surface of an object. They created this effect by applying paint in small dashes of color. The artists would work outside in natural light to see exactly how the light would appear on their canvas.

Post-Impressionism was an art style that began in the late nineteenth century. The people who painted Post-Impressionism were artists who moved away from Impressionism. The techniques they used consisted of flickering touches of paint, much like Impressionism.  Post-Impressionists used intense color schemes to express emotion. They used bright colors and line patterns across the surface, as well as thick layers of paint to show depth and light.

The three artists, Paul Gauguin, Henri de-Toulouse Lautrec, and Vincent Van Gogh, were Post-Impressionists. They were all unhappy with modern civilization. These artists expressed their boredom and sadness in their art. Although their paintings appear very different from each other, the three artists are all called Post-Impressionists because they had all once been Impressionists who later broke away from Impressionism to create their own styles of art.