style. In the years of 1883-1885, most of his paintings had a “darkened pallet” with monochromatic colors (67). Art pieces like Loom, which was painted in 1884, show the monochromatic style by being made up of only light browns and dark browns. It wasn’t until 1886 that he decided to lighten his color pallet (114). His reasoning for this was because it “would be more expressive than the darker pallet” (115). Another possible reason why he lightened his pallet was because, like other impressionists, Van Gogh was fond of Japanese art (Fell 22-23). He expressed his fondness of this art by collecting wood block prints and he even painted orchard fields for six weeks (23,25). From this time until his death, this new pallet would be