Flowering meadow with trees and dandelions

This comes from the last year of Van Gogh's life, 1890. Instead of a wide view with a horizon, he pushes right up to the ground and fills the whole canvas with tangled grass, low trees, and the small bright dots of dandelions gone to seed. He painted several of these close, horizonless patches of undergrowth in his final months, studying the ordinary green floor of a field the way other painters studied a sky or a distant hill. The Kroller-Muller Museum, which holds it now, was built around one of the largest collections of his work anywhere, gathered by Helene Kroller-Muller in the decades right after his death.