what inspired van gogh work?
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 Van Gogh identified three olive tree paintings made in June , the second month of his stay at the asylum . 

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 Vincent Willem van Gogh ( Dutch : [ ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləm vɑn ˈɣɔx ] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 ) was a Dutch Post @-@ Impressionist painter whose work had a far @-@ reaching influence on 20th @-@ century art . In just over a decade he produced over 2100 artworks , including around 860 oil paintings , the majority created in the last two years of his life . They include portraits , self @-@ portraits , landscapes , still lifes , olive trees , cypresses , wheat fields and sunflowers , and are characterised by symbolic colourisation and dramatic , impulsive and highly expressive paintwork . He sold only one painting during his lifetime and was largely unnoticed by critics until his suicide , aged 37 , which followed years of restless anxiety , poverty and mental illness . 

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 The paintings made during this period were much the artistic result of Van Gogh 's reaction to the Gauguin and Bernard Gethsemane painting , as mentioned in the " Spiritual significance " section . 

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 Van Gogh had previously decorated rooms with his paintings , in particular the rooms of several restaurants in Paris and the Yellow House in Arles . Gauguin and de Haan appear to have been influenced by this work , as they began decorating the dining room of Buvette de la Plage in a similar fashion . Gauguin 's Self @-@ Portrait was prepared along with its pendant , Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan ( 1889 ) , to the right and left respectively of a fireplace on the upper panels of two wooden cupboard doors . Gauguin gave the panels a subtle , textured matte surface using white chalk ground and a combed wave pattern . Both works were completed sometime between mid @-@ November and mid @-@ December 1889 . 

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 The triptych has also been the inspiration for works of fiction , among them Ian Watson 's science fiction novel The Garden of Delights , based around the discovery of a planet which resembles Bosch 's painting . 
