Tree Roots, 1890 by Vincent Van Gogh At first sight, Tree Roots appears as a jumble of bright colors and wild abstract shapes. Powerful strokes and thickly applied paint mark the canvas. The subject only becomes apparent when you look more closely: tree roots, plants, leaves, with the brown and yellow of a sandy woodland floor under them.

Vincent van Gogh painted at least 15 paintings of olive trees, mostly in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1889. At his own request, he lived at an asylum there from May 1889 through May 1890 painting the gardens of the asylum and, when he had permission to venture outside its walls, nearby olive trees, cypresses and wheat fields.

This painting seems at first sight to consist of a jumble of bright colours and fanciful abstract forms. Only after that do you realise that it shows a slope with tree trunks and roots. These are …

Tree Roots is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in July 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. [1][2] Likely Van Gogh's final painting, it is an example of the double-square canvases that he employed in his last landscapes.

In Paris, Van Gogh experimented with the Pointillist stippling technique. This woodland scene is a good example. He covered the entire canvas with small dots of paint. The result is a play of light and shadow on the ground between the trees. The strip of yellow in the middle suggests the sunlight of a clearing in the distance.

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.

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 …

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.

In the visionary cloud, with blue and yellow streaks and wavy outline, vaguely organic, one can see a wraithlike mother and child; in the fantastic rugged silhouette of the mountain with the perforated rocky mass, one sees a ruined castle. Here are new forms of great power.

Olive Trees was painted in 1889 when Van Gogh was staying at the Asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole at Saint-Rémy in Provence in the south of France. The artist had been admitted to this asylum on a voluntary basis after the breakdown that …