Countless pairs of eyes have gazed at Vincent van Gogh’s “Olive Trees” and not seen it.Yet, it’s been right there in the foreground, embedded in the paint, for 128 years.
A grasshopper. Well, part of one. It’s missing its thorax and abdomen, but it’s definitely a real grasshopper.
“Van Gogh worked outside in the elements,” said Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where “Olive Trees” resides, “and we know that he ... dealt with wind and dust, grass and trees, and flies and grasshoppers.” ...