Vincent van Gogh
This painting, depicting a reaper in a sun-drenched wheatfield, was created in Saint-Rémy, a small village near Arles. At the end of April 1889, following several mental crises, Van Gogh committed himself to the hospital there.
In September 1889, Van Gogh wrote about the meaning of this painting, referring to the well-known biblical metaphor: "A reaper, the study is all yellow, terribly thickly impasted, but the subject was beautiful and simple. I then saw in this reaper—a vague figure struggling like a devil in the full heat of the day to reach the end of his toil—the image of death in it, in this sense that humanity would be the wheat being reaped. [...] But in this death, there is nothing sad; it takes place in broad daylight with a sun that floods everything with a light of fine gold."
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