A WHEAT FIELD By VINCENT VAN GOGH

A WHEAT FIELD

                              By VINCENT VAN GOGH

                                                                                       "WHEAT FIELD WITH CROWS"

"WHEAT FIELD WITH A LARK"

"A WHEAT FIELD" Painted by VINCENT VAN GOGH in 1887.

A BEAUTIFUL landscape-Impressionist in its outdoor colouring & the woven mixture of the brush strokes. but above all in the tender poetic quality of the carly summer day, with an airiness that belongs to the wind more than to the atmosphere. The clouds and the slender wheat are blown in the same direction as the flying bird. 

The simplicity of the division into three bands-sky- wheat & foreground would be exceptional in an Impressionist, more disposed to asym metry and unexpected vistas.

Also distinct and in keeping with VAN GOAG'S love of the object reality is the conception of the stroke as an equivalent of the structure of what he represents,  hence the marked difference between the flecking of the sky and the touches that render the wheat- the poppies & the stubble- each with its own shape and direction, as well as local colour. The execution is rapid and lyrical, completely permeated by the qualities of the scene a breathing work. 

Particularly fine are the variations within the broad simple areas of the canvas,in the sky by changes in value alone, by different tones of blue, lighter and darker, in the wheat by passages from cool to warm, yellow green to blue green, with minor touches of the red, blue, & white of the field flowers,  in the foreground, a warmer prevailing tone of bright yellow, in contrast to the blue sky, includes lavender touches.

                                                                                  VINCENT VAN GOGH PAINTINGS