Van Gogh, an avid collector of Japanese art woodcut prints, may have been inspired by the prints with snowy scenes. The view is accented by the red roofs along the horizon, brown dog, and the brown jacket and black hat of the man walking in the field. Tufts of grass are painted in yellow along the side of the road. Brown, green and blue is used to suggest puddles and slush left by melting snow. Van Gogh uses color to depict the components of the landscape. Horizontal brushstrokes emphasize the plain that fills most of the painting tension is created by the diagonal strokes of the road cutting across the plain. The audience is drawn in by the road that starts at the lower left hand corner of the frame right towards the trees, hills and snow-covered mountains at the horizon. The painting is made of the La Crau plain and Montmajour in the background. In a letter to his brother Theo about February 24, 1888, Van Gogh describes having completed three paintings in as many days, one of them "a landscape in the snow." It's thought that this painting is one of his first paintings made in Arles. At the time of this painting the snow had begun to melt. When Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 the ground was covered with snow due to record cold temperatures. Here Van Gogh found a "brilliance and light that would wash out details and simplify forms, reducing the world around him to the sort of pattern he admired in Japanese woodblocks" and where the "effect of the sun would strengthen the outlines of composition and reduce nuances of color to a few vivid contrasts." The painting The terrain varied from plains to mountains.
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People had dark hair and skin and spoke a language that sounded more Spanish than French. The area was quite different from what he'd known in the Netherlands and Paris. Living in Arles, in southern France, he rose to the height of his career, producing some of his best work, such as fields, farmhouses and people of the Arles, Nîmes and Avignon area. When Van Gogh painted Landscape with Snow he was 35 years old.
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