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Celebrating Autumn with Vincent van Gogh - Page 2

© Tricia Dake

Harvest at La Crau with Montmajour in the Background (1888) http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/p... I love the busy-ness of this harvest scene. As a distant viewer I am apart from the workers below, yet am somehow still made to feel at one with them.

Trunk of an old Yew Tree (1888) http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/p... The solitariness of the fall season is bespoken by this work. Set against a bright yellow sky, the tree has lost most of its leaves, but a few rust-colored ones remain. The evergreens in the background add a constancy of time, showing us that not all must change so dramatically.

Les Alyscamps (1888) http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/p... There is a quietness to this walk down a tree-lined road. The straightness and barrenness of the trees contrasts the bent and bundled figures of the couple in the lane. The empty benches indicate a chill in the air. It is a place of beauty to pass through, but not to linger.

During Vincent’s time in the south of France at Arles he kept company with fellow artist Paul Gauguin. Eventually however they argued and Vincent threatened his friend with a razor. Later that same night Vincent cut off part of his own ear in a extreme act of remorse. Vincent spent his last years in an asylum treated by a doctor who was both an artist and supporter of the Impressionists. It is believed that Vincent’s last work before he took his own life was

Crows in the Wheatfields (1890) http://www.van-gogh-art.co.uk/artist/whe... If this was a vision of death for the artist, it is a journey over autumn fields to the blue beyond.

Copyright 2001 Patricia Dake

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Great Artists of the World by Larissa Branin, Smithmark Publishers ~ A Division of U.S. Media Holdings, Inc, New York, 1997. ISBN: 0-7651-9239-X

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