"Wheat Field With Cypresses" is a grand landscape painted very abstractly, much like a daytime version of "Starry Night." The beauty shown within the clouds, trees, and wheat, all simultaneously blowing in the wind draws the viewer in. In van Gogh's sky he uses a broad mixture of blues swirling among the heavenly clouds. His trees and grass use a varity of shades of green as well, while the wheat field itself contrasts this as a rich golden-brown.

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter, whose work represents the archetype of expressionism, as well as the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Van Gogh was born March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, son of a Dutch Protestant pastor. His mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus, who liked to sketch and paint wildflowers in her spare time as a hobby, was born into a family o

This latest comparison is what draws myself to "Wheat Field With Cypresses." My initial attraction had been to the fact that van Gogh had chosen this field as his intended place of death, and that he wanted to leave this painting as his signature. I later came to enjoy "Starry Night" so much that I couldn't help but compare the two.

Despite the fact that van Gogh has pretty much given up on life at this point, I think this painting displays how he has come to peace with his ultimate demise. If anything, I would contend that his fallout with Gaughin and his impending self-mutilation was his most tumultuous time. Here in his final days, I think we find such tranquil and lucid work in the wheat field as a direct result of his acceptance of his fate.

It was during this time period that Vincent was under Dr. Gachet's care. His mocking portrait of the doctor shows us how much disdain he felt for the incompetent care he was granted. Just after completing his final painting, "Wheat Field With Cypresses", he shot himself in that same field on July 27, 1890, and died two days later. He had been carrying the burden of his brother's poor health as well as the culmination of all his failures and could no longer bear the pain.

how he developed the unique style and color of his paintings, usually through times of solitude and isolation culminated with his incessant suffering.

Canaday does agree, however, that "Vincent's paintings take on the swirling, tempestuous form and the more mystical expression of which 'Starry Night' is a climactic example."

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