Vincent Van Gogh’s Cypress Trees

Any motif an artist chooses is something to be studied. Van Gogh focused on sunflowers, cypress and olive trees. Selecting a motif is just a starting place to apply paint in my point of view. It gives you a form to color. I find my gestural marks a place to start. The show at the the Metropolitan Museum compliments the show I saw at the Art Institute of Chicago just weeks ago. 

The weather is hot but there is a breeze. New Yorkers are complaining about the heat. Many leave the city if they can at this time of the year.