Olive Trees
Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
Original Dimensions: 28 5/8" x 36 1/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1889) "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. "What I’ve done is a rather harsh and coarse realism beside their abstractions," Van Gogh observed, "but it will nevertheless impart a rustic note, and will smell of the soil."" - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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