Field with Poppies

Vincent van Gogh painted portraits, still lifes, genre painting, and landscapes throughout his prolific career. In 1882 Van Gogh was painting the sea, dunes and woods of the Netherlands in dark, muted earth tones. In these early landscapes he was still developing as an artist and was not yet painting in the style that he would become most known for. The artist himself wasn’t fully committed to his art yet. He wrote to his brother Theo “I’m certainly no landscape painter, if I were to make landscapes there would always be something of the figure about them.”