Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Crows"
He painted this a week before he died. The Van Gogh museum says,
In Auvers, Van Gogh painted a large number of landscapes with wheatfields, all on unusual, elongated canvases (50 x 100 cm). He wrote to his brother Theo about two of these works:Van Gogh is like Chekhov. I love that he can be so miserable, and yet so serene in Nature. I feel like that at my kitchen table all the time.
"They depict vast, distended wheatfields under angry skies, and I deliberately tried to express sadness and extreme loneliness in them.”
But these pictures also had a positive side:
“I am almost certain that these canvases illustrate what I cannot express in words, that is, how healthy and reassuring I find the countryside.”
When it is your
flowering time, open heedless --
let Bach rain through you
In all the ocean
world, this is your turtle chance
to be born human
let's go down to the
church, and see has Mabel made
her cornbread today
1 comment:
I love the one with the chair in his bedroom.
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