Olive grove gogh vincent van goghs biography
Van gogh olive grove 1889.
One of my blogging hobbies (“blobbies”?) is using CC Search from Creative Commons and the Flickr Commons to look up images connected to my blogging.
Olive grove gogh vincent van goghs biography
This time the search term was olives.
Olives were on my mind after visits to an olive grove and olive oil processing facility. Not surprisingly, the search tools led me to a handful of advertisements and ephemera, but the real gems were Vincent Van Gogh’s olive tree paintings from 1889.
Join me below to learn more about this series of paintings.
Voluntary Admission
It was 1889 and Vincent van Gogh was worried that he would hurt himself or others (this was not long after the incident with the ear), so in May he admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy, France. There he could receive care and observation (and sharp blades would be locked away).
Once Van Gogh’s mental stability improved, the hospital staff allowed him to leave the building so he could pain