The Olive Trees  1889

painting by Vincent Van Gogh (Museum:[url=http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80013?locale=en] Museum of Modern Art[/url]) [br] In the blazing heat of this Mediterranean afternoon, nothing rests. Against a ground scored as if by some invisible torrent, intense green olive trees twist and crimp, capped by the rolling, dwindling hillocks of the distant Alps, beneath a ligh...