1889 · F585 · 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.
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The Alpilles in the background. Olive trunks twist like human bodies — he wrote that olive trees are 'too beautiful; I dare not paint them, yet dare not not.' Silver-green leaves turning in the wind, each stroke a tremor.