 Of Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) , Van Gogh wrote his brother Theo : " I did a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky , " calling this painting the daylight complement to the nocturnal , The Starry Night . His intention was to go beyond " the photographic and silly perfection of some painters " to an intensity born of color and linear rhythms . 
