6267 x 4960 px | 53,1 x 42 cm | 20,9 x 16,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1889
Ubicazione:
Provence, France.
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The Met’s Wheat Field with Cypresses unfailingly holds its allure. By the time van Gogh painted this exuberant study from nature, in early summer 1889, he had settled into institutional life and found his footing in the rustic and rugged countryside surrounding the asylum at Saint-Rémy. Familiar enough with the lay of the land to scope out a vantage point that gives full currency to the repertoire of motifs (cypresses, olive trees, wheat fields and mountains) he felt were most characteristic of Provence, van Gogh painted the composition with unhesitating ease and gusto. Each of the subjects and challenges that had engaged his focus—from the “difficult” greens of the towering cypresses to the “devilish yellows” of the sun-scorched fields—are here woven into a harmonic whole with dynamic brushwork that weds the expressive potential of color and line and succeeds to harness the power of both with confident aplomb - Susan Stein
