Mountains at Saint-Remy

Bare, heaving mountains roll and buckle beneath a turbulent sky, a small hut nestled at their foot, the whole landscape rendered in thick, surging strokes that make the very rock seem to move. Van Gogh painted these hills near the asylum at Saint-Remy, channeling his inner unrest into the swelling forms of the earth. Now in the Guggenheim, Mountains at Saint-Remy shows how completely he transformed landscape into feeling - the solid hills writhing with the same restless, rhythmic energy that animates his skies, nature and emotion fused in pulsing paint.