Wheat Field with Cypresses

Van Gogh described this piece to his brother Theo from asylum in Saint-Rémy in the early July of 18889. Van Gogh says "I have a canvas of cypresses with a few ears of wheat, poppies, a blue sky, which is like a multicolored Scotch plaid." Van Gogh thought that this painting was one of his best summer canvases. He repeated this painting three times. One is reed pen and also two with oil variants which are displayed in other museums. This work was inspired from the window of the metal institute in asylum towards the Les Alpilles mountains.Van Gogh sketched this piece with charcoal underdrawing; he applied thin paint on the cypress trees and sky, with the ground allowed to show in places, and thick impasto for the foreground wheat and the clouds above.

This famous piece of Van Gogh's has jumped from many museums but was bought from the MET in 1993 for 57 million dollars. I thought this piece was one of Van Gogh's best as Van Gogh said also. He put a lot of details into this piece, such as the distinct blades of grass and wheat and the motions of the wind. This painting also reminds me of another one of Van Gogh's paintings "Starry Night". It has the same brush strokes of the wind that "Starry Night" has, but is during the day.