Brief Introduction of the Author of The Olive Tree

2 1 May 2, 8901day, under the arrangement of his younger brother Theo, Van Gogh moved to Orwell-on-the-Watts and invited a doctor named Gachet to take care of him. At this time, his condition improved a little. The doctor also likes painting, and they cooperate very harmoniously. Van Gogh never stopped writing. The strong sunshine in the south is just the painter's feeling. He painted many famous works in succession, such as Dr. Gachet, Orwell Church and Crow in the Rye, which are enjoyed here. In these paintings, his favorite blue is re-displayed. This kind of blue has a deep, crystal clear and unfathomable charm. The crows in the picture are just flying lines composed of thick black lines, pressing low on a large orange wheat field. All the strokes are piled up into short and thick straight lines. The more Van Gogh painted, the more excited he became. The sunset hanging in the sky in the distance and the full moon rising in advance, like two halos of different sizes, were spinning rapidly. Blue pressing honey yellow is also full of romantic sentiment. Blue symbolizes the sky and tends to move, as if approaching the audience. But it is not like half the sky, just a fierce flame colored by color filters, spreading to the earth. The picture is covered with dense short and hard strokes, which do not symbolize anything, but a sense of trembling.

Van Gogh soon fell into a sad mood again. One day, when he came back from visiting his younger brother, he was exhausted at that time, but he immediately began to paint and drew three big paintings at one breath. In a letter to Theo, he wrote: This is a large wheat field covered with dark clouds and undulating sky. In order to express my sadness and my infinite loneliness as much as possible, I don't feel embarrassed at all ... this refers to his crow in the rye.

1 1 year1October, Van Gogh completed "The Olive Tree of Saint-Remy in Autumn" with a good mood of seriously studying nature. This painting was almost completed at the same time as his Golden Crops and Cypress. So the mental state is basically the same. As he himself said, he strictly followed the reality he saw with his own eyes. In the painting, the curved olive tree seems to be struggling with the surrounding environment. Trees are so restless, if you want to rise from the ground and let the branches extend into space. Almost no tree is straight. They are all writhing, dancing, struggling or angry. The mental state of the tree reflects Van Gogh's inner feelings like a mirror. It's just that there is no rage like "The Crow in the Rye", and the mood in this picture is relatively calm. Small and trivial strokes are too numerous to mention. The colors are also more harmonious, and the overall green adds the yellow and green of the earth. There is transpiration on the horizon, but the overall color gamut is low.

In Orwell's time, Van Gogh suspected that he would fall into a ditch with Dr. Gachet like a blind man. He looked at his collection of paintings by pissarro and Cezanne at his home in Gachet, and thought that Dr Gachet was his bosom friend. Gaxie encouraged him to paint and introduced him to a doctor in a neighboring village. Understanding Van Gogh's illness and mental state during this period is helpful to appreciate his paintings during this period.