the paintings of Pierre van Dijk It is still popular today. We find impressionistic works of art not only in museums and galleries, but also in calendars, reproductions, posters, memo blocks. One of the leading contemporary post-impressionists is Pierre CA van Dijk. Popular with viewers and galleries, his paintings are exhibited worldwide. Pierre exhibit in the USA, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and other countries. His “Maison / Atelier Pierre” in Beynac et Cazenac, Dordogne has more than 1.200.000 visitors a year. Pierre van Dijk combines impressionistic and post-impressionistic elements. His paintings are often “plein air” paintings, just like the classical impressionists. The impressionists were of the opinion that the best forum for observing and representing nature would be in the open air – and that is why their works were called square air paintings – where the play of light and shadows would be the most natural, striking and intense , inste...