#Cypresses

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Cache River Wetlands, Illinois

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Georges-Paul Leroux (French, 1877-1957), View of the Gardens of the Villa d’Este in Tivoli, 1912. Oil on canvas, 24 x 15 in.

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Bursting at the seams

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Petrov Alexander Nikolaevich, Russian, B. 1957 (co-author Korennova Elena Viktorovna), "Two Cypresses", 1986.

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Vincent van Gogh // Cypresses

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Zypressen, 1889. von Vincent van Gogh (Undatiert, )

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Laberinto de Cipreses en Flores, Comayagua, HONDURAS

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Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (1861-1931, Spanish) ~ La Fuente De Los Cipreses, n/d

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Luigi Ghirri, Modena, 1974 VS Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889

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Baroque portal and cypresses on a Mediterranean shore by Ferdinand Keller

An ethereal female figure, cloaked like an antique column, pensive and deeply immersed in unfathomable thoughts, stands, as if sprung from the shadowy realm of a Homeric heroic epic, at the mysterious, cypress-covered bay of a dimly abysmal lyrical fantasy landscape, a place where time seems to stand still.

This almost otherworldly, ghostly dream world, idealised to elegant aloofness, springs from the dark, diffuse light and intoxicating, sultry musky haze of the sophisticated salon world of the late 19th century. In the spirit of «l'art pour l'art», this symbolist composition is detached from comprehensible plot contexts and rather a painted poem, dreamlike, albeit ominous in content.

In his later work, Ferdinand Keller abandoned the opulently staged heroism and pompous character of his history painting. Instead he devoted himself to an examination of his contemporary model, the symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, who inspired him to create transcendent dream visions of a Mediterranean-antique character with a sombre, occult quality. Above all, Böcklin's most influential and enduringly successful pictorial invention, «The Isle of the Dead», an incunabulum of the late Romantic longing for death and of the decadent «fin de siècle», inspired the professor at the Akademie Karlsruhe to create this hitherto unknown masterpiece, which has remained in aristocratic private ownership since its creation.

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Vincent Van Gogh oil paintings I did with a 3 pack of 18in x 24in canvas panels.

Green Wheat Field with Cypress 1889

Starry Night Over the Rhône 1888

Summer Evening, Wheat Field with Setting Sun 1888

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Michalis Economou (Greek, 1888-1933), Chapel with Cypresses, c.1927. Oil on flannel laid on canvas, 61 x 50 cm.

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June 2023

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Orchid with Peach Trees and Cypresses, Van Gogh

[April 1888, oil on canvas]

Dotting, using Georges Seurat’s fine-tuned technique, to orchestrate this scintillating composition. Diagonal strokes used in the Cypresses to create a contrast to the delicate dabs of pastel colour used on the Peach Trees.

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Congratulations, big boy