Olive Trees of Provence
by Carla Parris
Title
Olive Trees of Provence
Artist
Carla Parris
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
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OLIVE TREES OF PROVENCE by CARLA PARRIS shows a beautiful grove of stately olive trees, with their twisted, gnarled trunks and their lovely silvery green leaves.
Olive trees can be seen throughout Provence.
This beautiful grove of olive trees was photographed in St. Remy, France, just outside the asylum where Impressionist painter Van Gogh lived in 1889.
During Van Gogh's stay in St. Remy, the clinic and its garden were major subjects of his paintings. So, too, was the surrounding countryside, with its wheat fields, olive groves, and cypress trees, where he was allowed to take short supervised walks.
In 1889, Van Gogh completed at least 18 paintings of what he called "venerable, gnarled olive trees."
According to Wikipedia, Van Gogh found olive trees both "demanding and compelling." He wrote to his brother Theo that he was "struggling to catch (the olive trees). They are old silver, sometimes with more blue in them, sometimes greenish, bronzed, fading white above a soil which is yellow, pink, violet tinted orange... very difficult." He found that the "rustle of the olive grove has something very secret in it, and immensely old. It is too beautiful for us to dare to paint it or to be able to imagine it."
Because of this grove's proximity to the St. Remy asylum, these beautiful and stately ancient trees were likely among those which were the inspiration for, and possibly the actual subject of, some of Van Gogh's paintings.
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