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This marvelous work was painted at
Saint-Remy, where the artist was undergoing treatment.
Van Gogh depicted a lilac bush in the
hospital gardens, the broken, separate brushstrokes and vibrant forms
recalling the lessons of Impressionism, yet with a spatial dynamism
unknown to the Impressionists. This bush is full of powerful, vivid
energy and dramatic expression. The modest natural motif is transformed
by the master's temperament and the brilliance of his emotions. Embodied
here in this fragment of an overgrown garden we find all of nature's
life-giving forces. In rejecting Impressionism,
Van Gogh
created his own artistic language, expressing the artist's romantic,
passionate and deeply dramatic perception of the world. |
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Online replica painting:
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12/11/2007 |
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12/11/2007 |
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The
copying was finished. |
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