1889 · F712 · JH1740
Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background
Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background, 1889. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from The Olive Groves.
Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background meaning and analysis
Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background belongs to the site node The Olive Groves. That node places the work inside Van Gogh's letters, places and changing painterly abilities rather than isolating it as a single image.
Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Saint-Remy Period.
Technically, the page connects this work to Van Gogh Oil on Canvas , Van Gogh Brushstroke Analysis . The related map below shows these connections.
Olive trees before the rolling Alpilles, with a great white cloud above; trunks, ridges and cloud are all drawn in curving lines. In September 1889 Van Gogh wrote of “the olive trees with white cloud and background of mountains”, which, like the Moonrise and the Night effect, were “exaggerations from the point of view of the arrangement, their lines are contorted like those of the ancient woodcuts.”