Van Gogh | Wheat field with cypresses | MET Museum

Vincent van Gogh – Wheat Field with Cypresses
This 1889 masterpiece, painted near Saint-Rémy, is a tempest of movement, the cypresses twisting like flames against a swirling sky. Van Gogh called these trees "the beautiful black notes in nature’s symphony," and here they anchor the composition, their dark forms contrasting with the golden wheat. A little-known fact: He made three versions of this scene (one in ink, two in oil), obsessively refining it. The thick, rope-like brushstrokes and pulsating heat haze convey not just a landscape but his feverish connection to nature—a world alive with invisible forces.

Van Gogh’s Life During This Period
Confined to the asylum, Van Gogh was forbidden to wander far, so he painted the surrounding fields repeatedly, each time injecting more emotion into the scenery. Wheat Field with Cypresses was created during a brief respite from his illness, and his letters reveal he saw the cypresses as symbols of eternity. Yet the painting’s frenetic energy also mirrors his mental state—just months later, he would describe these same fields as "vast expanses of wheat under troubled skies" in his suicide note. This work is both a hymn to nature and a silent cry of anguish.

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