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Cypresses was painted by Vincent van Gogh while the post impressionist was a patient at Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy.While being held at the asylum, van Gogh was allowed to continue his painting; among other subjects, the artist was interested in painting cypresses (which van Gogh described as "beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk" [3]) and pines.
The wheat field with cypresses paintings were made when van Gogh was able to leave the asylum. Van Gogh had a fondness for cypresses and wheat fields of which he wrote: "Only I have no news to tell you, for the days are all the same, I have no ideas, except to think that a field of wheat or a cypress well worth the trouble of looking at closeup."
In an earlier letter to his brother Theo, van Gogh wrote that cypresses were "always occupying [his] thoughts" and that he found them "beautiful of line" and proportioned like an Egyptian obelisk. He had also intended on painting a nighttime view of the trees since his stay in Arles in 1888.
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's brushwork brings life to this picture of furrowed soil and craggy mountains. At the center, a peasant carries a bundle of straw, a symbol of the cycles of life. Van Gogh described this painting as a pendant to The Reaper, which resides at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, both in vivid complementary colors of yellow and blue-violet. [15]
Print/export Download as PDF ... (Van Gogh series) C. Cassis, Cap Lombard, Opus 196; ... Copies by Vincent van Gogh; Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art) D. Dancers ...
"Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience" is set for Nov. 14 to Jan. 31 at Mercantile Center, 201 Commercial St. Tickets $24.90 adults 13 and older; $20.90 seniors 65 and older, students 13 to 26 and ...
"Van Gogh Alive" exhibit in Wellington, New Zealand in 2021 A number of real-life and virtual reality exhibits of Vincent van Gogh 's paintings have been staged around the world since the 2000s. The for-profit events range across venues, organizers, and locations, though the majority have been held in North America in 2021 and 2022.