Wheatfield with crows
Vincent van GoghOriginal title: Zonnebloemen
Date: 1890 ; France , Arles in terms of modern geography
Art Form: Painting
Dimensions: 73 X 95 cm. (28.74 X 37.40 in.)
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Wheat Field with Crows, made on a double-square canvas, depicts a dramatic, cloudy sky filled with crows over a wheat field.[4"> A sense of isolation is heightened by a central path leading nowhere and by the uncertain direction of flight of the crows. The windswept wheat field fills two-thirds of the canvas. Jules Michelet, one of van Gogh's favorite authors, wrote of crows: "They interest themselves in everything, and observe everything. The ancients, who lived far more completely than ourselves in and with nature, found it no small profit to follow, in a hundred obscure things where human experience as yet affords no light, the directions of so prudent and sage a bird."
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").[1"> The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.
In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as... Continue reading...