1889, Vincent van Gogh, Field with Poppies -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Keen to capture the "short-lived" season of flowers and "color effects," Van Gogh scoped out the motif for this picture on one of his first permitted outings in early June. He returned to the site to advance the painting in plein air and completed it in his studio in several phases, adding last - over already dried paint - the trio of cypresses. Hugging the corner of the poppy field, they serve as a counterpoint to the dark green bushes in the foreground, inviting the eye to navigate the unifying features of the whole, such as the coursing diagonals. Van Gogh put into play various strategies to heighten the allover, decorative effect and classed this work with The Starry Night "as exaggerations from the point of view of the arrangement," dependent on "lines [that] are contorted."
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Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
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1889, Vincent van Gogh, Field with Poppies -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Keen to capture the "short-lived" season of flowers and "color effects," Van Gogh scoped out the motif for this picture on one of his first permitted outings in early June. He returned to the site to advance the painting in plein air and completed it in his studio in several phases, adding last - over already dried paint - the trio of cypresses. Hugging the corner of the poppy field, they serve as a counterpoint to the dark green bushes in the foreground, inviting the eye to navigate the unifying features of the whole, such as the coursing diagonals. Van Gogh put into play various strategies to heighten the allover, decorative effect and classed this work with The Starry Night "as exaggerations from the point of view of the arrangement," dependent on "lines [that] are contorted."
Links to high-resolution close-up photos of details from this painting are here and here.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
Link to other van Gogh paintings.