What are the artistic innovations of western post-impressionist works?

Western post-impressionism came into being in the late19th century, which is relative to the early impressionism represented by Monet and Manet. Post-impressionism and impressionism belong to the impressionism school, and there is no essential difference. The representative painters of post-impressionism are Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne.

So, what are the artistic innovations of post-impressionist works? In short, pay more attention to the painter's subjective feelings and emotional release.

If the early impressionists found that light and color would change at any time under natural conditions and emphasized the importance of outdoor sketching and the painter's subjective impression, then the later impressionists paid more attention to the painter's subjective understanding, feelings and emotions in their creation, which was more different from the traditional realistic oil painting.

Shall we watch Gauguin's Where Are We From? Who Are We? Where are we going? This painting is a typical example. This painting was painted by Gauguin in Tahiti, South Pacific, according to the life scenes of local aborigines. From the picture, there are men and women, old people and children in the painting, and everyone is doing the same or different things. The characters and scenery are not very clear, and some are hazy. By depicting such a scene, the painter raised a very serious and realistic question, which can also be said to be a philosophical question: Where do we come from? Who Are We? Where are we going? It highlights the painter's subjective thoughts and feelings and makes people think deeply, which is not found in previous oil paintings.

Van Gogh's Sunflowers and Starry Sky, etc. Using the interweaving changes of colors and the changes of line strokes, a kind of passion flowing and rotating emotion is released, and the powerful vitality of life and nature is interpreted at the same time. The connotation of the painting is very rich, giving the viewer a variety of interpretations, thinking and imagination.

Cezanne devoted himself to exploring new ways of expression of oil painting, trying to change the traditional way of expression in which oil painting modeling has always been based on objective images, exploring a new three-dimensional combination mode of oil painting sections, and becoming the forerunner of abstract oil painting in the 20th century. Cezanne is known as "the father of modern western oil painting".