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Cypresses by Vincent Van Gogh

Cypresses by Vincent Van Gogh

In late April 1899, Van Gogh unexpectedly decided to go to a psychiatric hospital where he was allowed to continue painting classes.

It was at this time that the artist wrote the famous cypresses, which amazed him so much that he spoke of them: “… Beautiful, like an Egyptian obelisk.” To display a green tree, especially its dark crown, called Van Gogh “Black spot in the sunny landscape,” proved to be a difficult task for the painter.

The artist used in the image of cypresses the same means of artistic expressiveness, which he usually used to reproduce a human figure. This move, in addition to giving special attention to cypresses, gives them, in fact, human characteristics. It seems that Van Gogh was very pleased with his work.

In one of his letters to his brother Theo, he described it as follows: “The trees are huge and mighty, the first plan with blackberry bushes and undergrowth is very low, behind it are the purple hills, the green-pink sky with the moon.”

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