Labels:bulletin board | door | earth | person | reckoner | road | sky | stairs | stairway OCR: Ruisdael Jacob (1628, -1082 seven teenth- -centur Dutch landscape painter whe painted identifiable wooded areas in the Netherlands Ruisdael's twisted and gnarled trees regarded by many as metaphors for the human condi tion and for time's power t deform the body were admired and emulated in the late nineteenth century Van Gogh's sensitivity the expressive posture of trees and his careful abserva tion flandsce pes was undoubtedly driven part byhis familiarty with Ruisdael. hurman admirec observatior landscapes