Vincent Van Gogh, known for depicting awe-inspiring settings with expressive paint strokes, is one of the most famous artists of all time. Much less known, however, is the genre that Van Gogh represented. Van Gogh was a part of the Post-Impressionism movement, one of the most iconic movements in Art history.

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Coming after the Impressionism era, in the 19th century, Post-Impressionism was both an extension and a rejection of its predecessor. Essentially, the difference lies in Post-Impressionism's rejection of its predecessor's spontaneous depiction of light. Rather, post-impressionism featured spontaneous subjects/landscapes that were carefully depicted.

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Vincent Van Gogh is known as a forefather of the movement, alongside Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat. He is also widely regarded to be the movement's most popular artist. Many of his works, such as "Starry Night" are globally appreciated to this day, with numerous museums exclusively dedicated to him.

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Paul Cézanne, another founder of the movement, is also greatly appreciated in the world of art. Despite his art being misunderstood by the public during his time, his art was of great significance to those in later generations. Appreciated today for his analytical approach to nature and method of building form with color, Cézanne is respected as an artist who came before his time.

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Georges Seurat, another forefather, is also viewed as a revolutionary artist. Having devised both pointillism and chromoluminarism/division, Seurat is seen as an inspiration for multiple painting techniques extending long past his time. 

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All in all, while the individual works that came out of the era of Post-Impressionism are wonders of their own, the works that came as a result of it bear the true fruit of the movement. Post-impressionism, along with its predecessor, revolutionized the way we view art in the techniques and colors used and the subjects depicted.