Our 2012 family calendar highlights this photo in the month of March. Having recently flipped to April, I've found I missed seeing this beautiful work. And upon looking back at older posts, I found I have never posted about it!
We saw this cypress painting, and several others, when we visited New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last March. Even for a novice visual art appreciator, such as myself, I found Van Gogh's works stunning to see in person: the texture, colors and depth of the paint and the motion it creates! I especially love the grass green in bottom right side here. You can tell he flung his paintbrush aside and got right in there with his fingers to make it look just so.
According to what I remember reading at the museum (so very reliable information here), this landscape was on the property of the asylum he was living at. I hope to create something so beautiful from the bounds of my own asylum. (Ah-ha! Verified here under the "Saint-Remy" subheading.)
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