Vincent van Gogh - Field with Wheat Stacks 1890
Field with Wheat Stacks 1890
50x100cm oil/canvas
Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland
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From Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland:
Considered one of van Gogh’s very last paintings, Field with stacks of wheat is both more rigid and at the same time more abstract than Wheatfield with cornflowers. Divided into fields of varying rhythmical structure, the brushstrokes here overlie the landscape like a grid. The picture culminates in the two large stacks of wheat that tower over the empty plateau like abandoned dwellings and thereby almost completely cut off the sky. The only living creature is a solitary crow, flying into the depths of the landscape on the left.