The style favoured by the Post-Impressionists reflected that of the earlier movement - works often possessed a loose sketchy painterly quality that gave merely the impression of the subject rather than a naturalistic reproduction - but also experimented with techniques like the decorative use of colour, flatter application and often reflected the strong linear influence of Japanese ink drawing. Artists' use of colour, and representation of light, captured not only their personal interpretation of the scene as the Impressionists did but also the mood or emotion the painter associates with the subject in that moment - works were often painted very quickly in order to capture the light at a certain time of day. Other techniques include the painting of works of light-coloured canvases to increase luminosity in the pieces and the use of flat brushes in the application of the paint, allowing artists to block in colour broadly and q

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