1889, Vincent van Gogh, Olive Trees on a Hillside -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Having "absolutely no canvas" between roughly October 8 and 21, Van Gogh made use of small-scale supports fashioned from remnants he had on hand. Yet he hardly skimped when it came to the expressive power of the canal-side view at left or the creative license at play in this work, as he took to the hills in search of mountain subjects and pushed further his efforts to "seek style." Homing in on a hillside olive grove to test the virtues of a muted palette and a more stylized, decorative approach, he gave a novel slant to the motifs he had targeted for his "Impressions of Provence" - even including a half-hearted attempt at a cypress, if only as a sidebar, at left.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
Link to other van Gogh paintings
1889, Vincent van Gogh, Olive Trees on a Hillside -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Having "absolutely no canvas" between roughly October 8 and 21, Van Gogh made use of small-scale supports fashioned from remnants he had on hand. Yet he hardly skimped when it came to the expressive power of the canal-side view at left or the creative license at play in this work, as he took to the hills in search of mountain subjects and pushed further his efforts to "seek style." Homing in on a hillside olive grove to test the virtues of a muted palette and a more stylized, decorative approach, he gave a novel slant to the motifs he had targeted for his "Impressions of Provence" - even including a half-hearted attempt at a cypress, if only as a sidebar, at left.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
Link to other van Gogh paintings