Arles View from the Wheat Fields

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Arles View from the Wheat Fields: Vincent van Gogh

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Work Overview: Arles: View from the Wheat Fields (Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background)
June 1888
Musée Rodin, Paris, France

During the last half of June he worked on a group of ten "Harvest" paintings,[34] which allowed him to experiment with color and technique. "I have now spent a week working hard in the wheatfields, under the blazing sun," Van Gogh wrote on 21 June 1888 to his brother Theo.[41] He described the series of wheat fields as "…landscapes, yellow—old gold—done quickly, quickly, quickly, and in a hurry just like the harvester who is silent under the blazing sun, intent only on the reaping."[33]

Wheat Fields also Wheat Fields with the Alpilles Foothills in the Background[41] is a view of the vast, spreading plain against a low horizon.[42] Nearly the entire canvas is filled with the wheat field. In the foreground is green wheat of yellow, green, red, brown and black colors, which sets off the more mature, golden yellow wheat. The Alpilles range is just visible in the distance.[41]

Van Gogh wrote about Sunset: Wheat Fields Near Arles: "A summer sun... town purple, celestial body yellow, sky green-blue. The wheat has all the hues of old gold, copper, green-gold or red-gold, yellow gold, yellow bronze, red-green." He made this work during the height of the mistral winds. To prevent his canvas from flying away, van Gogh drove the easel into the ground and secured the canvas to the easel with rope.[43][44]

Arles: View from the Wheat Fields (Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background), another painting of this series,[45] represents the harvest. In the foreground are sheaves of harvested wheat leaning against one another. The center of the painting depicts the harvesting process.

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