Pollard Willows and Setting Sun

Post-Impressionism

The story

A circle with rays. Every kid draws the sun like that. Every trained painter learns not to. Soft gradients. Atmospheric blur. That's what professionals do. Van Gogh threw all of that away. He went back to the raw symbol. A solid disc with radiating lines. Because that's how the sun feels. Not how it looks through a textbook. He said he wanted his art to be "simple for the simple." No art degree needed. You already understood the sun when you were five.

Movement
Post-Impressionism
Artist
Vincent van Gogh

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