CROWS IN THE WHEATFIELD
Early June 1890
Oil on Canvass
Van Gogh Museum ,Amsterdam
Probably the most violently painted of Van Gogh works. The expressionist landscape. Colours and brush strokes defines every element of composition. The gloominess of the landscape is deprived of any apparent movement, not even a human form is present. The horizons are bare and unrelieved. Measurement of distance is difficult to determine even through atmospheric perspective . The colours are intensified and the texture of the sky is the same thickness as that of the field.
Van Gogh described this painting “They are the vast stretches of corn under troubled skies, and I did not need to go out of my way to express sadness and extreme loneliness”
This work manifest a concrete sense of foreboding, evident on the flock of threatening black crows, emerging from the heavy ,dark storm clouds. The road ahead is slanting offering no escape. But what is significant about this painting, It was in this very gloomy field that Vincent shot himself in the chest ,missing his heart . This is where he dragged himself back to the village, where he died with his brother Theo at his deathbed. Van Gogh ‘s last words to his brother “THE SADNESS WILL LAST FOREVER “
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