Grasshoppers stuck 128 years in Van Gogh paintings

Experts discovered a grasshopper lacked belly and chest in the painting "Olive trees".

Managers at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, USA, found the body of a grasshopper jammed in the work of "Olive trees" arose 128 years ago by the artist Vincent Van Gogh, Telegraph on 7 November. reported.

The work "Olive trees" by famous artist Van Gogh.(Photo: Guardian).

Van Gogh is famous as a proponent of outdoor painting style. Therefore, experts believe that grasshoppers have accidentally become part of the picture when he is working outside.

"Van Gogh works outdoors. He has to deal with issues like wind, dust, grass, trees, flies and grasshoppers," Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, told Kansas City Star. .

The grasshopper was discovered by Mary Schafer, who preserved the paintings in the museum while examining the picture through a microscope. The animal is hidden between the brown and green markings on the painting. At first, she thought it was just a leaf.

"Finding such things in paintings is not too strange. But the discovery of grasshoppers connects people to enjoy painting with Van Gogh's painting style and the moment he created the work , " Schafer told Architectural. Digest.

Grasshoppers stick between colors.(Photo: Guardian).

In 1885, Van Gogh wrote about the outdoor painting process and the challenges he encountered in a letter to his brother, According to Van Gogh.

"Enough of the following things happen. You have to pick up hundreds of flies or more from the 4 pictures you are about to receive, not to mention dust and sand. When a person brings the paintings through the heather and the rows fencing trees for a few hours, a couple of branches were scraping through them , " he wrote.

Because the grasshopper lacks belly, chest, and no signs of movement in the picture, it may have died when it fell into it, according to Michael Engel, an insectologist who specializes in paleontology at the University of Kansas.