1888, Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: At the height of summer, Van Gogh vivified the multicolored splendor of a flowering farmhouse garden. He was attentive to the note of local color provided by the "black cypresses" in their familiar role as windbreaks, crisscrossing the countryside, fronting whitewashed cottages, and fringing florid parcels of land. Essentially picking up where the springtime orchards had left off, he revisited the challenge of incorporating this "dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape," which he later assessed as "one of the most interesting dark notes, the most difficult to hit off exactly that I can imagine."
Links to high-resolution close-up photos of details from this painting are here and here.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses”.
Link to other van Gogh paintings.
1888, Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: At the height of summer, Van Gogh vivified the multicolored splendor of a flowering farmhouse garden. He was attentive to the note of local color provided by the "black cypresses" in their familiar role as windbreaks, crisscrossing the countryside, fronting whitewashed cottages, and fringing florid parcels of land. Essentially picking up where the springtime orchards had left off, he revisited the challenge of incorporating this "dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape," which he later assessed as "one of the most interesting dark notes, the most difficult to hit off exactly that I can imagine."
Links to high-resolution close-up photos of details from this painting are here and here.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses”.
Link to other van Gogh paintings.