Wheatfield with Crows, © Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
oil on canvas, 1890
Vincent Van Gogh, Netherlands
From the museum’s website:
Wheatfield with Crows is one of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings. It is often claimed that this was his very last work. The menacing sky, the crows and the dead-end path are said to refer to the end of his life approaching. But that is just a persistent myth. In fact, he made several other works after this one.
Van Gogh did want his wheatfields under stormy skies to express ‘sadness, extreme loneliness’, but at the same time he wanted to show what he considered ‘healthy and fortifying about the countryside’.
Van Gogh used powerful colour combinations in this painting: the blue sky contrasts with the yellow-orange wheat, while the red of the path is intensified by the green bands of grass.
I picked this today because of something I’m planning to write. I imagined a scene over a year ago with no thought of this painting. But once the painting came up in today’s searches, I can see it’s the perfect inspiration.
I have to admit, this is how this year has been, on and off.
Van gogh starry night and crows are two of my favorite paintings there is so much turmoil in the wheat and the birds just fly away