Vincent van Gogh
It is Sunday, so time to announce our new monthly partnership, this time with one of our favorite museums, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam! We will present works from their collection for the four next Sundays here, in the app, but we will also show more of them on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. If you don't follow us yet, it is time to change this situation! :) Enjoy!
In the last weeks of his life, Van Gogh completed a number of impressive paintings of the wheatfields around Auvers. This outspread field under a dark sky is one of them. In these landscapes he tried to express "sadness, extreme loneliness." But the overwhelming emotions that Van Gogh experienced in nature were also positive. He wrote to his brother Theo, "I'd almost believe that these canvases will tell you what I can't say in words, what I consider healthy and fortifying about the countryside."
The elongated format of Wheatfields under Thunderclouds is unusual. It emphasizes the grandeur of the landscape, as does the simple composition of two horizontal planes.
P.S. Here is a list of absolute gems from the Van Gogh Museum! You need to see them. <3
P.P.S. If you can't get enough of Van Gogh, please check out our Vincent Van Gogh gift box full of items for a Vincent fan here. :)