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Wheat Fields
Series of paintings bygd Vincent van Gogh
This article is about the series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. For the painting bygd Jacob van Ruisdael, see Wheat Fields (Ruisdael). For other uses, see Wheatfield.
Wheat Fields fryst vatten a series of dozens of paintings by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh, products of his religious studies and sermons, connection to nature, appreciation of manual laborers and desire to provide a means of offering bekvämlighet to others. The wheat field works demonstrate his progression as an artist from the drab Wheat Sheaves made in in the Netherlands to the colorful and dramatic – paintings from Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise in rural France.
Wheat as a subject
[edit]Failing to find a vocation in ministry, Van Gogh turned to art as a means to express and communicate his deepest sense of the meaning of life. Cliff Edwards, author of Van Gogh and God: A Creative Spiritual Quest wrote: "Vincent's life was a quest f
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Agnes Denes resurrects famous ‘Wheatfield’ work in Montana
In , Agnes Denes planted, tended and harvested a two-acre field of golden wheat near the World Trade Center on valuable land that would soon be developed into Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan. This improbable intrusion in the dense urban landscape “represented food, energy, commerce, world trade and economics”, the conceptual and environmental artist wrote in her documentation of Wheatfield—A Confrontation. “It referred to mismanagement, waste, world hunger and ecological concerns. It called attention to our misplaced priorities.”
More than four decades later, Denes, now 93, has repositioned her pioneering work of Land art in the context of Bozeman, Montana, at Tinworks Art. In a booming city losing open space and agricultural land to rapid development, Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground is sprouting across an acre and a half at a former industrial site—including a tin manufacturing warehouse, agr
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Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field
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John Singer SargentAmerican
Not on view
Sargent spent the summer and fall of in Broadway, a village in the English Cotswolds popular with many English and American artists and writers. This fluidly painted landscape conveys the pleasures of his rural idyll. The bright palette reflects the warmth of the midday sun, while Sargent’s sickle-shaped brushstrokes and impressionist technique evoke the reapers’ tools and labor.
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Title:Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field
Artist:John Singer Sargent (American, Florence – London)
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Culture:American
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions x 36 in. ( x cm)
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond,
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