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A Wheatfield with Cypresses is any of three similar 1889 oil paintings by Vincent van Gogh, as part of his wheat field series. All were exhibited at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole mental asylum at Saint-Rémy near Arles, France, where Van Gogh was voluntarily a patient from May 1889 to May 1890.
Van Gogh describes the ripening Green Wheat Field with Cypress painted in June: "a field of wheat turning yellow, surrounded by blackberry bushes and green shrubs. At the end of the field there is a little house with a tall somber cypress which stands out against the far-off hills with their violet-like and bluish tones, and against a sky the ...
Green Wheat Field with Cypress (French: Champ de blé vert avec cyprès) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh.It is held by the National Gallery Prague, displayed at the Trade Fair Palace (Veletržní palác) in the district of Holešovice, where the painting is known as Zelené obilí ("Green wheat").
Van Gogh describes the ripening Green Wheat Field with Cypress painted in June: "a field of wheat turning yellow, surrounded by blackberry bushes and green shrubs. At the end of the field there is a little house with a tall somber cypress which stands out against the far-off hills with their violet-like and bluish tones, and against a sky the ...
[2] [4] Van Gogh could also see an enclosed wheat field, subject of many paintings at Saint-Rémy. [5] As he ventured outside the asylum walls he painted the wheat fields, olive groves and cypress trees of the surrounding countryside, [4] which he saw as "characteristic of Provence". Over the course of the year, he painted about 150 canvases.
In fifteen of the twenty-one versions, cypress trees are visible beyond the far wall enclosing the wheat field. Van Gogh exaggerated their size in six of these paintings, most notably in F717 Wheat Field with Cypresses and The Starry Night, bringing the trees closer to the picture plane. [citation needed]
The Large Plane Trees, by Vincent van Gogh. ... Enclosed Field with Ploughman at Wheat Fields, by Vincent van Gogh. ... Green Wheat Field with Cypress, ...
The close association of peasants and the cycles of nature particularly interested Van Gogh, such as the sowing of seeds, harvest and sheaves of wheat in the fields. [3] Van Gogh saw plowing, sowing and harvesting symbolic to man's efforts to overwhelm the cycles of nature: "the sower and the wheat sheaf stood for eternity, and the reaper and ...