Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the vast fields of wheat that stretched above Auvers-sur-Oise, a town north of Paris where he lived the last two months of his life. He painted many views of these fields, including this landscape with a reaper cutting the golden grain while the stacked sheaves recede toward a village and the distant blue hills. For Van Gogh, the reaper was sometimes a Biblical metaphor of the final harvest when mankind will be reaped like ripe wheat. “But,” he wrote to his brother Theo in 1889, “there’s nothing sad in this death, it goes its way in broad daylight with a sun flooding everything with a light of pure gold…It is an image of death as the great book of nature speaks of it.”
Look at these colors! They are mesmerizing!
P.S. Van Gogh was a true nature lover. You can see it in many of his amazing artworks. Here you can read more about it. <3
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