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Poppy Field is an 1890 painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, painted around a month before his death during his stay in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. [1] It has been described as "a composition that verges on the abstract" [2] and shows marked difference from a 1888 painting of the same subject that now is in the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam. [3]
The Poppy Field near Argenteuil (French: Coquelicots) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, completed in 1873. Following its donation to the French state in 1906 by Étienne Moreau-Nélaton , it was housed successively in the Louvre , Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Jeu de Paume .
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Field with Poppies, 1889, by Vincent van Gogh. Poppies have long been used as a symbol of sleep, peace, and death: Sleep because the opium extracted from them is a sedative, and death because of the common blood-red colour of the red poppy in particular. [16] In Greek and Roman myths, poppies were used as offerings to the dead. [17]
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on es.wikipedia.org Anexo:Obras de Claude Monet; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Liste de peintures de Claude Monet
The poem and poppy are prominent Remembrance Day symbols throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, particularly in Canada, where "In Flanders Fields" is one of the nation's best-known literary works. The poem is also widely known in the United States, where it is associated with Veterans Day and Memorial Day .
Poppy Harlow, the longtime CNN anchor who most recently co-helmed “CNN This Morning,” announced Friday that she will exit the network. “The nearly two decades since have been a gift ...
Side effects of laudanum are generally the same as with morphine, and include euphoria, dysphoria, pruritus, sedation, constipation, reduced tidal volume, respiratory depression, as well as psychological dependence, physical dependence, miosis, and xerostomia. Overdose can result in severe respiratory depression or collapse and death.