Wheat Field With Cypresses Analysis

Vincent van Gogh created, “Wheat Field with Cypresses”, in 1889 on canvas using oil paints. Today, it is on display in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Wheat Field with Cypresses” was created during the post-impressionism era; showing abstract paint strokes that were color dominated, containing heavy movement, showing a window into the artists’ mind and soul. “Wheat Field with Cypresses” depicts a hot, windy summer day. Van Gogh uses rich gold’s and yellows to show the brightness of the wheat, and soft blues to represent the calm blue sky. Then he used a dark green for the cypress tress which draws your attention to this as the focal point. The use of the color schemes consisting of different shades of yellows, blues, and greens gives the painting a sense of harmony. These colors are analogous to one another on the color wheel. As I look at this piece I see yellow and blue separated by the color green. Add yellow and blue together and you have created green, which in this piece is mainly right, with a continuous thin line through in the middle where the two colors meet.
While observing the wheat, you notice that it flows and bends to the right to draw your attention to the tree, while the clouds have a light airy feel to provoke the heavy mountains directly below them.
The brush strokes are very noticeable and broad, creating movement, depth and vibrancy. The beauty shown within the clouds, trees, and wheat, all blowing in the wind draw the viewer in. In the sky, Van Gogh uses broad mixtures of blues swirling among the clouds offering a soft resting place for our eyes. The wheat looks ripe and lush, giving it a sense of abundance. While having very noticeable brush stokes within the cypress tree, to draw our eye in immediately, Van Gogh balances the background with a soft blended strokes of blue and white for the mountains and