wheat field behind saint paul hospital with a reaper vincent van gogh

wheat field behind saint paul hospital with a reaper vincent van goghVincent Van Gogh was interned several times in Saint Rmy de Provence in 1888 1889. He removed the bars from his window and painted what he saw. In a beautiful shortcut, he wrote in a letter: "I saw in this reaper a vague figure who struggles like a devil in the heat to get through his work I saw in it the image of death, in the sense that humanity would be the wheat that is reaped. But there is nothing sad about this death, it takes place in full

In this cubist composition by Robert Delaunay

This painting marks the artist's abstract turn under the influence of cubism until then

He purposely depicts the figures in the background without faces to ensure that they do not distract from the central figure

The work is similar to the Vase with Irises by the same artist

inspiring a state of alterable equilibrium

He became one of its most illustrious representatives

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Sitting on a chair next to him

For the artist

of elegant and fragile beauty

the dynamism of the grey and black lines perfectly match the shape of the canvas

rich and colorful background that Vermeer usually offers in his portraits