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Until June 12, 2022, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, you can visit the exhibition “Van Gogh and the Olive Garden” , which will bring together for the first time Vincent van Gogh’s paintings for the Olive Garden. Today, we offer a masterpiece from this exhibit, from the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. enjoy your meal! 
Olive trees are a typical landscape in the south of France. In May 1889, Vincent van Gogh himself admitted that there were many olive trees around the insane asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Fascinated by the trees’ irregular shapes and changing colors, he painted them over and over again in different seasons and at different times of the day. Van Gogh completed 15 paintings of olive trees between June and December 1889. This is a special series in which he freely experimented with expressive colours, lines and forms. His purpose was to portray the essence of the subject.
As soon as Van Gogh was allowed out of the mental hospital, he began to paint the Olive Garden. Once he grasped the typical characteristics of trees, he began to experiment with his own style, seeking to express a deeper meaning. In his first large-scale painting of an olive tree, painted in June 1889, Van Gogh used loose, quick brushstrokes to capture the effect of sunlight on the leaves, which constantly change colour in the light. In a letter he described the painting as “an olive grove with grey leaves more or less like willows, which cast purple shadows on the sun-drenched sand.”
PS Discover his special connection with nature in Van Gogh’s art.
PPS Vincent van Gogh is one of our favorite artists, which is why in our DailyArt store, you can check out all the art notebooks, art prints and socks featuring Van Gogh masterpieces !
73,2 × 92,2 cm
Post-Impressionism
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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