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In the second half of the nineteenth century, impressionism became a revolutionary break through among radical painters in France. This new way of painting emphasized on the surfaces of the subject matter by utilizing color. Furthermore, impressionists had develop ....

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.... brought great attention to the surface of the landscape as well as to the surface of the canvas. The viewer is completely aware that the images of are illusions. Both paintings are about impression and color sensation. However, the approaches behind these paintings are quite distinctive. As a result, the contexts of the impressions portrayed are different also. Compositionally, Monet and Van Gogh spread their landscape onto the entire page and centralized the page with a linear perspective. Their landscapes are surpassing the canvas and surpassing us, the viewers. We are in the image and are participating what the artist wanted us to be doing ....