Swimmer
“It would be a thing that gave a good impression of summer. I think summer is not easy to express; generally, at least often, a summer effect is either impossible or ugly, at least I think so, but then, as opposition, there is the twilight.
But I mean to say that it is not easy to find a summer sun effect which is as rich and as simple, and as pleasant to look at as the characteristic effects of the other seasons.
Spring is tender, green young corn and pink apple blossoms.
Autumn is the contrast of the yellow leaves against violent tones.
Winter is the snow with black silhouettes.
But now, if summer is the opposition of blues against an element of orange, in the gold bronze of the corn, one could paint a picture which expressed the mood of the season in each of the contrasts of the complementary colors — red and green, blue and orange, yellow and violet, white and black!”
–Vincent Van Gogh, 1884
