For still lifes, Van Gogh chose a variety of objects. For example, in this picture of 1887, written in Paris, he painted a small basket with fresh green sprouts of young flowers.
When composing a still life, the author took almost all the space represented by the basket. The surrounding objects are not visible, instead of them the artist used a neutral light background. The author writes the basket and green sprouts extremely accurately, with small strokes of a fine brush.
The color scheme of the picture is based on a combination of fairly close warm tones. This color was typical for the early period of Van Gogh’s creation, and in Paris for some time he to some extent still continued to use it. The background is made up of light gray strokes, adjacent to beige, yellow and brownish hues.
The basket and the earth in it are the darkest areas on the canvas. Against their backdrop, the sprouts of crocuses, written in warm shades of green, are quite prominent. But the chromaticity of the picture does not seem monotonous, it is diluted with bluish reflections of bright daylight. Falling on the basket and on the thin sprouts of flowers, the light enlivens the picture, making it cheerful and clean.
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