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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.
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.
Wheat Field With Cypresses, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh. Although restless beyond measure, with few straight lines, this landscape is one of the most classic in conception among Van Gogh's works. It is build up in great bands that traverse the entire space.
Wheat Field with Cypresses is Van Gogh’s initial study from nature of a composition that he repeated in three other versions: a large reed-pen drawing (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 47.1 x 62.3 cm),[1] and two painted studio variants: one of the same format, now in the National Gallery, London, and a “reduction” (51
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 ...
Such iconic pictures as Wheat Field with Cypresses and The Starry Night take their place as the centerpiece in a presentation that affords an unprecedented perspective on a motif virtually synonymous with the Dutch artist’s fiercely original power of expression.
Vincent van Gogh - Wheatfield and Cypresses - Van Gogh Museum. This is one of ten drawings after paintings of his own that Vincent made in the summer of 1889. He sent the drawings to his brother Theo. They offered an impression of how he was spending his time in the asylum in Saint-Rémy.
Art Bulletin 75 (December 1993), pp. 656–58, 667, fig. 11, states that the two trees look like the same pair of trees in "Wheat Field with Cypresses" (The Met, 1993.132); discusses the traditional European symbolism of cypresses as well as the artist's association of them with Egyptian obelisks; notes that it is an image built upon the ...
Title: Wheat Field with Cypresses. Creator: Vincent van Gogh. Date Created: 1889. Physical Dimensions: 28 7/8 × 36 3/4 in. (73.2 × 93.4 cm) Type: Painting. External Link:...
Wheat Field With Cypresses, 1889. Vincent van Gogh. Cypresses gained ground in Van Gogh’s work by late June 1889, when he resolved to devote one of his first series in Saint-Rémy to the towering trees.