This is wonderful! I went to St. Remy to see where he painted and what the asylum was like. Even today there are lots of olive trees all around it. I enjoyed learning about how the one olive painting is sort of the day time version of a starry night.

Surely the repeated use of red orange for the ground is more a matter of his use of complementary colours to interact with the blue green of the olive trees foliage? “Arbitrary” choice of colours as he called it.

Further up some of the canvases you see the same colour juxtaposition in the yellow skies and purple mountains.

Where were the wheat field paintings hidden?? I didn’t see those during my visit. I’m highly disappointed as those are some of my favorites and I had no idea they were featured with the olive grove works. They should have been more prominently displayed and those pathetic Christ among olive grove paintings should have been hidden away in the back.