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Wheat Fields near Auvers, 1890, owned by Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna was also described by van Gogh as a landscape of the vast wheat fields after a rain. [53] Van Gogh brings the spectator directly into Sheaves of Wheat by filling the picture plane with eight sheaves of wheat, as if seeing it from a worker's perspective. The ...
Van Gogh describes Mountainous Landscape Behind Saint-Rémy, also made in June, as a view taken in the hills seen from his bedroom window: "In the foreground, a field of wheat ruined and hurled to the ground by a storm. A boundary wall and beyond the grey foliage of a few olive trees, some huts and the hills.
Wheat Fields is a Dutch landscape painting created by Jacob van Ruisdael. The painting is one of twenty-seven works that Ruisdael produced concerning fields of grain. Ruisdael's work depicts a road passing between two fields of wheat. Beyond the fields, a small woods and a house can be seen.
The painting measures 50.4 cm × 101.3 cm (19.8 in × 39.9 in). It depicts a relatively flat and featureless landscape with fields of green wheat, under a foreboding dark blue sky with a few heavy white clouds. The horizon divides the work almost into two, with shades of green and yellow below and shades of blue and white above.
In a letter to his brother, Theo, written on 2 July 1889, Vincent described the painting: "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid; the former painted with a thick impasto like the Monticelli's, and the wheat field in the sun, which represents the extreme heat, very thick too."
The dark hours conducive to germination and regeneration are depicted in The Sower and wheat fields at sunset. [3] In 1889 Van Gogh wrote of the way in which wheat was symbolic to him: "What can a person do when he thinks of all the things he cannot understand, but look at the fields of wheat...
Wheat Field with Crows, made on a double-square canvas, depicts a dramatic, cloudy sky filled with crows over a wheat field. [5] A sense of isolation is heightened by a central path leading nowhere and by the uncertain direction of flight of the crows. The windswept wheat field fills two-thirds of the canvas.
The Wheat Field is an 1816 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. [1] [2] It depicts a scene in his native Suffolk. The view across a wheat field depicts a cluster of farm workers who are who are seen harvesting the crop. Today it is in the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts having been gifted to the collection in 2007. [3]