Gilgamesh Meets Vincent Van Gogh - Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889)
Description
This painting is Wheat Field with Cypresses in
1889. This painting is one of 3 in Van Gogh's series of Wheat Field paintings.
All were made at the Mental Hospital, Saint-Paul-de-Mausole Monastery,
Saint-Rémy, near Arles, France, where Van Gogh was a patient from May 1889 to
May 1890. His works are inspired by the view from the window of a mental
asylum, which overlooks the Alpilles Mountains. The painting depicts golden
fields of ripe wheat, dark fastigiate Provençal fir towering like green
obelisks to the right and light green olive trees in the distance, with hills
and mountains visible behind, and white clouds swirling in the blue sky above.