Look how the trunks in this oddly aligned trio seem to want to lift themselves right out of the ground by their roots. To do what??
File these branches under "wildly gesticulating." One gets the impression of a clawing at the air, frantic branches twisting left, right, and above. These blossoming trees seem electric, too, full of the ungovernable energy of the universe. You can almost hear the synapses crackling in van Gogh's brain as he painted them ...
This, apparently, is the only painting he's believed to have sold in his lifetime.
