This work was painted in May 1890 at the end of van Gogh's stay in the asylum at St-Rémy. It shows part of a spring meadow bursting with new vegetation and speckled with bytterflies.
The horizon is not shown, but the meadow is contained at the top by the tree-lined road.
At this time van Gogh's canvases are mostly of the asylum park, almond trees and flowers.
The paint is heavy - laid on very thickly (*impasto). It is predominantly green, though many other hues are springly used for flowers and highlights.
Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: "As soon as I got out into the park I got back all my lucidity for work... the brushstrokes come like clockwork."
*impasto: In painting, impasto (from Italian for dough) describes areas of the surface of a painying which are heavily built up with paint layers.
Impastoed paint is highly textured; brush or palette knife marks are usually clearly evident. The intention is to make the lightfalling across the painting reflect in a particularly noticeable way. Highlights, or perhaps jewels on a costume, may be heavily impastoed for this reason, as in some of the works of Rembrandt.
Later, artists such as Van Gogh employed the technique extensively for decorative and expressive purposes.
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