Vincent van Gogh - Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant 1889

Vincent's Bedroom in Arles 1889 Wheat Field Behind Saint-Paul Hospital with a Reaper 1889 Wheat Field with Cypresses 1889 Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant 1889 Entrance to a Quarry near Saint-Remy 1889 Field with Ploughman and Mill 1889 The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital 1889
Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant 1889

Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant 1889
73x92cm oil/canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art

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From Indianapolis Museum of Art:
Van Gogh's spirituality and intense identification with the forces of nature transformed his views of the landscape into powerful personal expressions.
This canvas was painted in the Provençal town of Saint-Rémy, as van Gogh recuperated from a nervous breakdown suffered on Christmas Eve, 1888, during Gauguin's fateful visit. It is one of four views of a walled wheat field executed in the autumn of 1889. Symbols of the artist's pantheistic beliefs, the ploughed terrain and rugged mountain peaks pulsate with a fertile inner life, charged by the picture's dynamic brushwork, rich surface texture, and varied colors.