In reality, Van Gogh did not seek nor did he analyze the harmony of nature here; instead, he transformed it by projecting a vision entirely all his own.

In conclusion, the great Impressionist painters revealed in their work a restless, self-conscious search for freedom of expression so characteristic of the late 1880's and into the early years of the 20th century. Their desire for a more modern form of expression led them to prize the immediacy of visual impression and persuaded those that followed to revel in a spontaneous atmosphere and climate so characteristic of the Impressionist period. As John Rewald informs us, the Impressionists bore more than mere feelings and imaginations, for they depended upon purely visual sensations while acknowledging that "the world. . . is no longer a given order of masses. . . It is the source of sensations of light and color with no fixed order,...
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