“The street with plane trees near the Arles station” – the work of the late artist – the post-impressionist Vincent Willem van Gogh. It was written just after the author moved to Arles to the south of France to create his own “Workshop of the South”. “Street” became a new breath and, as Van Gogh seemed to himself, another way of expressing through color and the synthesis of colors with a pattern. The canvas was very juicy and very yellow. The incredible hot French spring was caught by the artist at the station.
The alley of plane trees is still completely naked. The platans are very beautiful in the foliage and coolness of the crowns, but the spring bloom still has not given either the kidneys or shoots. The canvas palette is built on the contrast inherent in impressionism. Along with the bright lemon fence there is a perfect opposite – the violet composition. He runs along the bridge on stilts, painting the sky with a lilac haze, thereby, that breaks out of the steam engine chimney.
Despite the morning, and this is the morning, judging by the unsharpened shadows and desolations, some townspeople are already awake. They loom dark dashes in the background in the doorway. The technique of painting Vincent differs childishness and simplicity. In the coating with oil, there are a lot of separately standing brush strokes of a chaotic direction, – grass – vertically, shadows – horizontally, and so on.
Pay attention to these very shadows from plane trees. They do not have a clear boundary, they resemble a children’s ladder and are completely lilac. Shadows without an admixture of black pigment – a kind of slogan of impressionists and post-impressionists, of course. Van Gogh clearly follows these rules in his “Street”. The mood of the picture pushes only to joyful impressions and even excites hungry appetite for something sweet, honey and juicy.
Without stinting on the color and contrast of shades, van Gogh splashed out his emotion on the canvas. Perhaps, the gaiety of creativity and canvasses devastated his own self, his own mind and life… However, fans of Vincent’s creativity do not need to know this side of his life, going on a journey through a long alley of plane trees.
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