1889, Vincent van Gogh, Landscape from Saint-Rémy -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: With this commanding view of the "countryside that I glimpse from the window of my bedroom," Van Gogh announced the battery of motifs and fierce vitality that would hold sway in his June painting campaign. Over the next few weeks, he tackled cypresses and olive trees, a bit farther afield than those clustered in the middle ground here, while exploiting this mountain-scape as the backdrop for The Starry Night and the potential of dramatic cloud formations in the Wheat Field with Cypresses (both hanging at right). The central motif, the enclosed "field of wheat, ravaged and knocked to the ground after a storm" - its jagged walls a reminder of the "half-freedom" of asylum life - would anchor more than two dozen works over the course of his yearlong stay.
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Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
Link to other van Gogh paintings.
1889, Vincent van Gogh, Landscape from Saint-Rémy -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: With this commanding view of the "countryside that I glimpse from the window of my bedroom," Van Gogh announced the battery of motifs and fierce vitality that would hold sway in his June painting campaign. Over the next few weeks, he tackled cypresses and olive trees, a bit farther afield than those clustered in the middle ground here, while exploiting this mountain-scape as the backdrop for The Starry Night and the potential of dramatic cloud formations in the Wheat Field with Cypresses (both hanging at right). The central motif, the enclosed "field of wheat, ravaged and knocked to the ground after a storm" - its jagged walls a reminder of the "half-freedom" of asylum life - would anchor more than two dozen works over the course of his yearlong stay.
Link to a high-resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.”
Link to other van Gogh paintings.