The Mulberry Tree: Vincent Van Gogh

The Mulberry Tree
“Every painting tells a story.” That was what my father used to tell me. My father brought me to famous galleries, showing me what art is. What are the story behind the art work? How were the artists’ status then? These story is the reason why I love arts. The Mulberry Tree is the painting I love the most. The painting –The Mulberry Tree– is one of the most significant painting that represent Vincent van Gogh’s later years. After a huge fight with his friend Gauguin, van Gogh cut his ear off and started acute psychotic episode. In order to make himself better, van Gogh admitted to the mental hospital at Saint Paul-de- Mausole, for the last two years before he committed a suicide. During those months, he started thinking someone is going to take his life. However, treated in the mental hospital with other patients with the same condition, he started to feel much better and not feeling alone. As a result, most of

I could smell the strong scents of the oily paints and the old wooden frame. The structure of the piece of painting is a diagonal line started from the top of the left corner same as the sun light spread to the bottom right corner with the shadows ended on a canvas. Through the diagonal line divided the painting in two section; the dark blue sky with rough brushes in vertical lines on the right top; the left bottom is a field of barren land, yellow lands with seldom grasses decorating. The main character, the mulberry tree, stands right in the middle the tree grow out from the land surrounded with rocks. The trunk was colored in dark brown and with lots of wood grains in black. On the other hand, the leaves of the tree vividly expressed the autumn, the bright yellow leaves throw in with the dark-orange ones with dark-green leaves ornament. Finally, with the black brushes outlining, the painting brings the tree in