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[20] The rendering of Almond Tree in Blossom is positioned close and accessible to the viewer, and the branches appear to extend beyond the painting's frame. A yellow butterfly flits among the pink blossoms growing on the red branches. The subject is reminiscent of an earlier painting which Van Gogh made in Paris depicting flowering trees. [3]
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NGA further describes the painting, "The undulating ribbons of paint, applied in diagonal strokes, animate the canvas and play off the furled forms of flowers and leaves. Originally, the roses were pink—the color has faded—and would have created a contrast of complementary colors with the green." [1]
Peach Trees in Blossom is an 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is in the collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art. [1] The painting depicts a field with peach trees on the outskirts of Arles with the Alpilles mountains in the background. [1] The painting was intended as a homage to Japanese landscape prints which influenced Van Gogh. [1]
Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees.
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List of paintings created during 1858–1871 1872–1878 1878–1881 1881–1883 1884 1884–1888 1888 1888–1898 1899–1904 1900–1926 This is a list of works by Claude Monet (1840–1926), including all the extant finished paintings but excluding the Water Lilies, which can be found here, and preparatory black and white sketches. Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and ...
Pink flowers are used as a symbol of love and awareness. For decades, pink flowers have been used to decorate weddings as a symbol of love. [1] They can also be used as a display of love at funerals, as demonstrated at the funeral for Anna Nicole Smith. [2] [3] More recently, pink flowers have come to symbolize breast cancer awareness. [4]