I love painting, watercolours, acrylics etc. Do you like painting?
I do sometimes. Painting is where you apply paint in different strokes and colors to a solid surface.
I think it was interesting how Van Gogh applied different stroke techniques to his art. 
Indeed. Painting can be natural, photographic, abstract, or any other number of various techniques. It gives each one its own unique sense of style, really
And sometimes a combination of many different techniques, particularly with the information available on the internet these days.
History of painting
The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, and spanning continents and millennia, the history of painting is an ongoing river of creativity, that continues into the 21st century. Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor.
Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel
Left of Mont Gaussier is the "Montagne des Deux Trous". In van Gogh's painting of this hill its dark holes are visible about the "undulating olive trees."
Portraits.
Van Gogh, known for his landscapes, seemed to find painting portraits his greatest ambition. To his sister he wrote, "I should like to paint portraits which appear after a century to people living then as apparitions. By which I mean that I do not endeavor to achieve this through photographic resemblance, but my means of