Vincent van Gogh invested his paintings with fearless color and singular eloquence. His portraits, landscapes, interiors, and still lifes transform the familiar into the exceptional, each one a masterful expression of the painter’s passion. Shimmering with intense light and color, his paintings rejected the naturalism of Impressionism. Instead, Van Gogh preferred bold, intense colors that conveyed emotion and pioneered using thick and layered paint to create texture, a technique called impasto. He worked feverishly and created more than 2,000 paintings, drawings, and sketches in his last 10 years. While little success was achieved in his short lifetime, Van Gogh is now one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the Postimpressionist movement.