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The Art in Quarantine - Van Gogh’s Painting of Cypresses in 1889
Introduction
The Cypresses appear many of the paintings by Van Gogh, who painted nature in the peak of its splendor. The artist was impressed by impressionists and adopted impasto as his painting skill. This paper drives at meaning, interpretations and analysis of one illustration of art by Van Gogh in which he painted cypresses in the evening, how this painting has social and religious appeal and how this is connected to our current situation of living in quarantine.
Meaning, Interpretations and Analysis
The painting with a host of curved lines in different intense colors presents one of the most archetypal in ideas among Van Gogh’s pieces of art. It is a blend of great bands that have covered the totality of space. The dark green, soaring, fleecy and swaying cypresses presents a contrast to other items in the painting like grass, swelling wave, olives and the colors of the sky. The height of the pair of the dark trees cuts down the light lucidity of the sky (Metzger and Walther 216). The full view is well-balanced and clear to convey the artist’s feelings.
The artist visibly paints the pure form of nature without any other contribution to reflect his inner emotions. The only illustration of nature becomes a rich source to carry the acuteness of Gogh’s feelings. The colors begin to mingle at tree roots, while on the top, there is a sharp contrast of shades with a golden crescent. The vibrancy of the art has a direct appeal to our eyes. The color combinations, isolation of crescent and sharp and slight contrasts reflect the duality of mind and its solitude in stress.
Gogh has painted this pair of Cypresses at the brim of a river with blue water and raised wave behind the gloomy darkness of the trees. The thickness of the branches wholly covers the blueness of wave and sky reproducing the dominance of Cypress as a symbol of great importance in the world of the artist.
Social and Religious Meaning of the Painting
The artist presents the Cypresses as the most dominant object among all other illustrations of nature, whereas their heights seem to cross the heights of the sky with a never-ending tip. It resembles the artist’s idea of immortality. Gogh completed this masterpiece at the end of his life when he had turned to the religion and attempted to get insight in the concept of immortality as one of the mo...