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Wheat Fields is a series of dozens of paintings by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh, products of his religious studies and sermons, connection to nature, appreciation of manual laborers and desire to provide a means of offering comfort to others.
The Wheat Field is a series of oil paintings executed by Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Wheatfield with Crows is one of Van Gogh's most famous paintings. It is often claimed that this was his very last work. The menacing sky, the crows and the dead-end path are said to refer to the end of his life approaching.
Wheatfield with Crows (Dutch: Korenveld met kraaien) is a July 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. It has been cited by several critics as one of his greatest works. [1] [2] It is commonly stated that this was van Gogh's final painting.
In the last weeks of his life, Van Gogh completed a number of impressive paintings of the wheatfields around Auvers. This outspread field under a dark sky is one of them.<br><br>In these landscapes he tried to express 'sadness, extreme loneliness'.
He was busy experimenting with brushwork and colour – for example, in this painting. Here he juxtaposes the golden yellow of the ripe wheat with a swirl of many different colours for the plants in the foreground.
Devoid of visible human presence, this landscape includes typically Provençal motifs – a golden wheat field, tall evergreen cypresses, an olive bush and a backdrop of the blue Alpilles mountains. This landscape had a special, even symbolic, meaning for Van Gogh.
Title: Wheat Field. Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise) Date: July 1888. Medium: Reed pen and logwood ink over graphite on wove paper. Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (24.1 x 31.7 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Max J.H. Rossbach, 1964. Accession Number: 64.125.3
The glowing wheat field, the olive trees of subtle gray in which all the colors of the picture seem to be mingled, the shaggy wavering cypresses, and the turbulent mountains have been wonderfully observed, and the light that fills this space has a vivid actuality for our eyes.
Wheat Field with Crows, oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in 1890. It is among the most famous and most emotionally evocative of his oeuvre, and its interpretation has been intensely debated.