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In Vincent Van Gough’s Houses at Auvers, the artist walks the fine line between abstract and representational art. This piece is considered an impressionist piece because it was painted directly from a subject. Some other things that make this piece impressionist are the brush strokes. You can see the brush strokes and the actual texture that Van Gogh was implying. The painting is a landscape piece and is an oil painting on canvas. It is a picture of houses and a road surrounded by trees and people. The frame of this painting is a very intricate gold leaf frame. It is in the Foster Gallery section of the museum. This piece stands a little more than two feet tall and is almost exactly two feet wide (29 ¾” x 24 3/8”). It immediately struck my attention with its brilliant colors and bold brush strokes. To me this painting stand out far more than any around it. I believe that Van Gogh selected the perfect format for this piece. If it were any larger it would have not been so easy to imply the texture that he did with his brush strokes. If he made it any smaller he would have taken away from the viewing experience by cluttering everything in the picture too close together. The light in this wing of the museum did not seem to