Sardin Oil Painting Van Gogh its broad format opens up

its broad format opens up the room like a far view

lending quiet human scale to the towering forms

A single bare tree stands alone on open grassland while the sky above it burns

The pure black ground anchors industrial and minimalist rooms

Sardin Oil Painting Van Gogh its broad format opens upThis lively oil painting gathers a shoal of sardines in vigorous palette knife strokes, their silvered bodies streaked with blue, ochre and flashes of warm gold. The fish overlap and angle across the canvas, wide round eyes catching the light as they seem to dart through cool, watery blues and greens behind them. Thick impasto gives every scale and fin a tactile, almost sculptural quality. The energetic handling turns a simple subject into a swirl of