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Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background by Van Gogh Edgar Degas The sky is heavy andPainted in Saint Rmy in 1889, this landscape captures the ancient olive groves of Provence beneath the jagged ridge of the Alpilles. Van Gogh renders the trees with his signature rhythmic brushwork trunks twisting against a sky of swirling, broken strokes, the ground animated by short curving marks that seem to breathe. The palette moves between silver grey foliage and warm earth, with the mountains dissolving into a luminous distance. The composition