In this artwork, how is the Painted in September, November and December 1889 of the The paintings elucidated?
The paintings made during this period were much the artistic result of van Gogh's reaction to the Gauguin and Bernard Gethsemane painting, as mentioned in the "Spiritual significance" section.The intense nature of National Gallery of Scotland's Olive Trees (F714) likely expresses Van Gogh's agitated state of mind when he completed this work, dramatic impact evidenced both through his brushstrokes and color use.Contrasting with his June olives with their blue-green color and coolness of tone, the vibrant oranges and yellows in Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun (F710) evoke the fall season.  Novelist Warren Keith Wright visited this painting at the Minneapolis Institute of Art over a 15-year period, transfixed by the painting, but unsure why.  He came to realize that the fascination was that the painting represented two periods of time.  The late-afternoon sun lies due west above the mountains.  The shadows, though, slant from the left, or the southwest, where they would fall in autumn.  Not only is the painting out of sync with time, it is also out of sync with the season.  It "predicts its own future, reverts to its own past."In November or December 1889 Van Gogh worked on Olive Orchard, MoMA (F708). Another painting from this time is Olive Grove: Orange Sky (F586) which resides at the Göteborgs Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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