“Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the vast fields of wheat that stretched above Auvers-sur-Oise, a town north of Paris where he lived the last two months of his life. He painted many views of these fields, including this landscape with a reaper cutting the golden grain while the stacked sheaves recede toward a village and the distant blue hills. For Van Gogh, the reaper was sometimes a biblical metaphor of the final harvest when mankind will be reaped like ripe wheat. “But,” he wrote to his brother Theo in 1889, “there’s nothing sad in this death, it goes its way in broad daylight with a sun flooding everything with a light of pure gold…It is an image of death as the great book of nature speaks of it.”
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I have always loved this stage of his artwork. Thank you so much!
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So do I, Sheila. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🙂🌻
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Really loved the details of van Gogh’s works in the YouTube piece. It is easy to miss that when viewing a whole painting. Thanks, LaMon
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Oh yes – I love to enlarge the image to see the brushstrokes, LaMon. That is why I try hard to find high resolution images when possible. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🙂
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He was enamored by the light.
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Which is probably one reason why we love him so much! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Rosaliene. 🙂🌺
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i love how van gogh desaturated the colors of the fields except for the places where there really was a deep hue of gold, and same with the sky. the universality that is produced by this effect is what makes it priceless for me.
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I enjoy high key paintings, too, Archer. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🙂
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That video is such a pleasure. Thank you! And the painting you chose, Wheat Fields with Reaper — oh the aqua blues! I really love that one.
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I am happy you enjoy this, GretchenJoanna. Thanks for visiting and sharing your thoughts. 🙂🌻
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Wheat Fields With Reaper is a great painting.
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Agree! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Christopher. 🙂
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What a wonderful blog!! And what a great resource for those seeking to educate! Thank you!
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Welcome! I appreciate your generous comment, Katie. Thanks for visiting! 🙂
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I’ll be visiting often. 🙂
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