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| The Mulberry Tree - Vincent Van Gogh |
This is the new photo-challenge at Mindlovemisery's Menagerie and I feel proud that I will be one of their hosts on Fridays. I will host the Fairy-Tale prompt. Next Friday will be my debute at MLMM. I am a bit nervous, but I am also excited to start ... well we will see ...
Ok ... back to this Photo Challenge and to the painting of Vincent Van Gogh. Let me first tell you all a little bit more about the background of this painting.
Van Gogh
painted The Mulberry Tree in October of 1889 less than a year before he would
die. Like most of his art, it was done during a period of highs and lows
painted during a time of great self-awareness and yet surrounded by chaos.In a letter which Vincent wrote to his brother, when he was painting The Mulberry Tree, he says: “I’ll tell you that we’re
having some superb autumn days, and that I’m taking advantage of them.”
The
Mulberry Tree shows a tree from the garden of the asylum. It is centered on the
canvas and is growing alone from a rocky hillside. The ground is made up of
short quick brushstrokes of white and pale browns. It creates a strong contrast
to the dark green and brown of the tree trunk. To the right, you see more
greens, indicating trees and growth in the distance. The leaves of the tree
make up the majority of the painting, orange against the complementary color of
the blue sky. It is that “superb autumn” that gave Vincent the bright orange
leaves to paint. The ground and sky are made up of mostly straight diagonal
brushstrokes, while the tree leaves are made up of curling spirals of orange
and black, sometimes done with the handle of his brush.faint autumn colors
leaves rustle in the afternoon breeze
screams from the asylum
(c) Chèvrefeuille
Well ... see you next time ...
