The Olive Trees and various self-portraits. The National Gallery is putting on the exhibition in its 200th year, 100 years after it acquired two paintings by the artist: Sunflowers and Van Gogh's ...
But, as it progresses, the exhibition's abiding theme is "van Gogh's rhapsodic feeling for the natural world. Roses, poppies and oleanders; cypresses, pine trees and planes: at every turn ...
Van Gogh responded to winter in a way which strikes ... he could make out the colour of things at an hour’s distance, the olive trees, the green grass, the “pink-lilac” of ploughed land.