1888, Vincent van Gogh, Orchard with Peach Trees and Cypresses -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Van Gogh channeled the authority of Georges Seurat's fine-tuned "stippling" (or dotting) technique to orchestrate this scintillating composition, which was planned around the cypresses and the trunks of the peach trees left in reserve. He defined the cypresses with two shades of green and two of blue, applied in swift, confident, diagonal strokes of paint, in contrast to the delicate but deliberate dabs of pastel colors used to fashion the flurry of blossoms and the foliage of the peach trees. Van Gogh returned to the cypresses, adding an extra note of dark blue to reassert their presence in the scene.
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1888, Vincent van Gogh, Orchard with Peach Trees and Cypresses -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Van Gogh channeled the authority of Georges Seurat's fine-tuned "stippling" (or dotting) technique to orchestrate this scintillating composition, which was planned around the cypresses and the trunks of the peach trees left in reserve. He defined the cypresses with two shades of green and two of blue, applied in swift, confident, diagonal strokes of paint, in contrast to the delicate but deliberate dabs of pastel colors used to fashion the flurry of blossoms and the foliage of the peach trees. Van Gogh returned to the cypresses, adding an extra note of dark blue to reassert their presence in the scene.
Link to a high-resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
Link to other van Gogh paintings.