"Tree Roots" ( Dutch. Boomwortels ) - a painting by Vincent van Gogh , written in 1890 in France . The format of the picture is elongated horizontally and is "two squares connected horizontally." The artist often used this format for his latest landscape works [1] .
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| Vincent Van Gogh | ||
| The roots of the trees . 1890 | ||
| niderl. Boomwortels | ||
| Canvas, oil. 50 × 100 cm | ||
| Vincent Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam | ||
| ( inv. ) | ||
According to some, this is the last picture painted by van Gogh [2] .
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About the picture
At first glance, the picture may seem like a composition of abstract forms and bright colors, but it shows the roots and bases of trees, plants, leaves [3] .
Back in 1882, in The Hague, Van Gogh makes sketches of tree roots. In a letter to his brother, Theo Vincent wrote that he wants to convey something like a life struggle in this work. It is not known whether he was guided by the same idea when creating the “Roots of Trees” [4] .
Notes
Literature
- de la Faille, Jacob-Baart. The Works of Vincent Van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1970. ISBN 978-1-55660-811-7
- Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. ISBN 0-7148-2028-8
- Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White. Van Gogh: The Life. Profile Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84668-010-6
- van der Veen, Wouter; Knapp, Peter. Van Gogh in Auvers: His Last Days. Monacelli Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-58093-301-8
Links
- Russian translation of Van Gogh's letters - in the Krotov library