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Flowering Orchards is a series of paintings which Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles, in southern France in the spring of 1888. Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 in a snowstorm; within two weeks the weather changed and the fruit trees were in blossom.
View of Arles, Flowering Orchards is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, executed in spring 1889, one of several paintings he produced in his Flowering Orchards series while living in Arles. Description [ edit ]
Number 27 in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Plum Orchard in Kamada (蒲田の梅園 Kamada no umezono, shows a similar colour scheme and subject.. The print shows part of the most famous tree in Edo, the "Sleeping Dragon Plum" (臥竜梅, garyūbai), which had blossoms "so white when full in bloom as to drive off the darkness" [attribution needed] and branches that travelled looping across ...
The Flowering Plum Tree is believed to be the first of three oil paintings made by Van Gogh of Utagawa Hiroshige's Japanese woodblock prints. He used color to emulate the effect of the printer's ink, such as the red and greens in the background and the tint of green on the white blossoms.
Excited by the subject matter, van Gogh completed nearly one painting a day. [5] Around April 21 he wrote to Theo, that he "will have to seek something new, now the orchards have almost finished blossoming." [4] Japonaiserie Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige) by Vincent van Gogh, 1887 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (F371)
Plum Park in Kameido (亀戸梅屋舗, Kameido Umeyashiki) Plum Park in Kameido Both in color and theme this print is related to print no. 27 (Plum Orchard in Kamada); copied by Vincent van Gogh under the title Japonaiserie: Flowering Plum Tree: 1857 / 11: Kameido, Kōtō