
The Mulberry Tree
The Mulberry Tree is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch artist. The painting was created in October 1889. The Mulberry Tree is one of several hundred paintings from a series of paintings that van Gogh painted during this time at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890. It has been in the permanent collection of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California since 1976.
The painting features a vibrant depiction of a solitary symmetrical mulberry tree in autumn, which sits in the centre of the canvas. The tree grows from a rocky bare hillside, its swirling yellow and orange foliage set against a blue sky. The thick, expressive brushstrokes follows van Gogh's signature characteristic use of impasto techniques. His heavy application of paint makes the work appear almost three dimensional. Van Gogh's use of curlin…
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