In the olive trees — in the expressive power of their ancient and gnarled forms — van Gogh found a manifestation of the spiritual force he believed resided in all of nature. His brushstrokes make the soil and even the sky seem alive with the same rustling motion as the leaves, stirred to a shimmer by the Mediterranean wind.

Van Gogh's style again evolved here, with his increasing use of great rhythmic brushstrokes and swirling tumultuous forms. He took the natural object, such as the gnarled old olive trees seen here, and stylized it through the swells and curves of his circles of paint.

Vincent van Gogh has 6 works online. There are 2,457 paintings online. We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history. In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning …

This is one of five pictures of olive orchards that Van Gogh made in November 1889. Painted directly from nature but animated by Seurat-like stippling and stylized passages of broken color, these works responded to recent compositions by Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard.

2022年11月15日 · The Olive Trees by Vincent van Gogh depicts various shades and tints of green, blue, and yellow with whites and black. Interestingly, blue held a symbolic meaning to Van Gogh – reportedly, it symbolized the “divine”, which the artist sought to convey through his pictorial compositions.

This is one of fifteen canvases of olive trees that van Gogh executed between June and December of 1889. Earlier that year he had interned himself in the asylum of St-Paul, in the town of St-Rémy in southern France, where he would create his most profound works.

Van Gogh was fascinated by the gnarled structures and changing colours of olive trees. He was also fully aware of their association with the story of Christ's Passion and the episode of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives.

2023年10月14日 · Between May 1889 and May 1890, Vincent painted olive trees at least 15 times. Some of the artist’s famous olive tree paintings are Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape, Olive Grove, Olive Grove II, and Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun.

2023年10月25日 · Vincent van Gogh’s obsession with the olive trees led him to create fifteen olive grove paintings during his stay in Saint-Rémy. He approached each canvas with a sense of experimentation, constantly seeking new ways to capture the essence of these majestic trees.

Olive trees, along with mountain landscapes and cypresses, usually served as subject matter for Vincent once he was able to paint outside the grounds of the asylum in early June 1889. He had been drawn to olive trees since Arles but had not yet ventured out to paint them: