While in Saint-Remy’s sanatorium, Van Gogh wrote several paintings depicting Dutch huts. Now it is not known exactly whether they were written from memory, or by some old drawing, but the same motif is imprinted on them at different times of the day and under different lighting conditions.
The landscape, passing through the author’s filter, acquires a similarity with the illustration to the children’s book. Perhaps, this expressed the longing for children’s years, with which each person is associated with a sense of security. However, the sinuous lines, drawn by an uncertain hand, introduce a hint of confusion into the work and deprive it of tranquility.
The sky is written in an indefinite color, it is adorned by a huge hot solar disk. Evening clouds, colored by the setting sun in red, look like flames. Rumpled houses with green roofs, tending down the diagonal.
Van Gogh uses contrasting colors, trying to give them the same brightness, but their combination is far from pleasing to the eye, creating a disharmonious conflict combination. Thick black outlines seem to be written with a shaky, uncertain hand. Uncertain lines, chaotic curls of outlines, lack of harmony – all this creates the impression that the picture was written as if in a dream. This feeling intensifies when you look at the figure of a person in the foreground, not placed in the canvas, which strikes with its disproportionality.
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