Though shut up indoors and desperately ill, he executed the scene in brilliant, vigorous and confident colour".Van Gogh in the Borinage" is comprehensively researched and sensitively told.
Another early advocate of Modernism, the German critic Julius Meier-Graefe, described Cézanne's paintings, in Entwickelungsgeschichte der modernen kunst (1904; Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of Aesthetics), as "mosaic-pictures…amazing in their vigorous contrasts of colour," which "may be compared to a kind of kaleidoscope," and noted that "the effects he produces are primitive".
These vigorous wucai ("five-colour") wares, which utilized a wide palette, were especially free and bold in the Jiajing and Wanli periods.
She was criticised for allowing her impressionist style to become extreme and visually distracting from her subjects, but that same approach was seen by another critic as charming, and exhibiting "harmonious colour and vigorous effects".
After vigorous washing, conjugate and colour reactions were performed according to the corresponding ELISA described above.
Using heavy ink, bright colours, and vigorous strokes, he created works of a fresh and lively manner that expressed his love of nature and life.
Venetian painting was also enriched by the pale colours and flickering brushwork of Francesco Maffei from Vicenza, whereas Bernardo Strozzi in 1630 carried to Venice the saturated colours and vigorous painterly qualities of the Genoese school.
By 1939 he was able to break away from the Expressionistic landscapes and still lifes he had painted in the early 1930s, and he developed a totally abstract manner notable for its wealth of invention, vigorous brushwork, and saturated colours.
Inspired by van Gogh's bold colours and vigorous brushwork, Rohlfs developed a new, more personal and sensitive style, an early example of which can be seen in St. Patroclus in Soest (1905 06).
