The olive groves around Saint-Rémy were a rewarding subject for Van Gogh. He was fascinated by the ever-changing colour of the olive trees and tried to find a good way of painting their irregular growth. His solution was to use swirling brushstrokes, bold outlines around the trunks and stylized blue shadows.

Olive Grove, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh. The olive groves around Saint-Rémy were a rewarding subject for Van Gogh. He was fascinated by the ever-changing colour of the olive trees and tried to find a good way of painting their irregular growth. His solution was to use swirling brushstrokes, bold outlines around the trunks and stylized blue shadows.

In Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh needed to do little more than step outside the grounds of the clinic to find himself in the middle of an olive grove. He often sat there painting. This is an oil study he made. He was always looking for new points of view among the crooked tree trunks.

If there is one painting that gives an intense depiction of the sweltering heat, the arid land, the crooked, twisting trunks and branches and the atmosphere of an olive grove in Provence, it...

2022年6月12日 · Van Gogh made fifteen paintings of olive groves, constantly experimenting with various approaches. Fascinated by the gnarly shapes of the olive trees and their ever-changing colours, he painted them over and over. He painted at different times of the day and used colours inspired by the season.

Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the ever-changing colour of the olive trees. He tried to find a goog way of painting their irregular growth. His solution was to use wirling brushstrokes,...

DescriptionAn olive grove in southern France; trees in brilliant blue and green with touches of black, dots of red in branches in three areas; blue shadows on greenish-white ground; splotches of red to left interpreted as wild poppies. Possibly paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Theo van Gogh’s apartment, 8, Cité Pigalle, Paris, end of 1890.

2022年6月25日 · The olive groves of Saint-Rémy deeply inspired Vincent van Gogh in his last year of life, and the paintings he made of them are among his most moving works. This exhibition unites Mia’s own Olive Trees with three more paintings from the series, along with two other Van Gogh landscapes and three works on paper.

The artwork titled “Olive Grove,” created by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, is an oil painting on canvas that belongs to the Post-Impressionism movement. This landscape, measuring 72 by 92 centimeters, is currently housed in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.

The Olive Grove is one of a series of paintings where the artist paints lush, sprawling gardens. Van Gogh loved to paint olive trees and cypresses. They were one of Van Gogh’s places of inspiration.