George Washington Crossing the Delaware Yes, the artist takes a subject that traditionally has little motion--landscape--and fills it with quivering movement. Every wisp of the clouds and branch of the tree appears to be swaying to an unknown rhythm. Is this movement caused by a storm or an earthquake, or is the artist giving the landscape a life of its own? Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-1890 Cypresses, 1889 Oil on canvas; 36 1/4 x 29 1/8 (93.4 x 74 cm) Rogers Fund, 1949 (49.30) composition perspective |  light |  color |  form |  motion |  proportion

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