Comments on: Vincent van Gogh: Wheatfield with Crows http://artandcritique.com/vincent-van-gogh-wheatfield-with-crows/ Critical articles on artists from various periods, including contemporary daily/frequent painters. Art interpretation guide. Art Reviews. Mon, 21 May 2012 15:35:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tamara http://artandcritique.com/vincent-van-gogh-wheatfield-with-crows/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 Tamara Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:13:59 +0000 #comment-1045 This is one of my favorite paintings of all time. I think it is a painting foreshadowing van goghs death. It is a painting of what would happen around him when he died... His suicide plan was to sit in the middle of a sunflower field and shoot himself--the bang would scare the crows and they would fly away (hence the place of them in the painting) and the road represents the long journey of life and the weather represents turmoil/choas/disturbance. The paintings perspective is of someone looking at the field from a distance while van gogh shot himself. It definately is a master piece. I love your analysis of it, very in depth :) This is one of my favorite paintings of all time. I think it is a painting foreshadowing van goghs death. It is a painting of what would happen around him when he died… His suicide plan was to sit in the middle of a sunflower field and shoot himself–the bang would scare the crows and they would fly away (hence the place of them in the painting) and the road represents the long journey of life and the weather represents turmoil/choas/disturbance. The paintings perspective is of someone looking at the field from a distance while van gogh shot himself. It definately is a master piece. I love your analysis of it, very in depth :)

]]> By: elijah http://artandcritique.com/vincent-van-gogh-wheatfield-with-crows/comment-page-1/#comment-730 elijah Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:48:14 +0000 #comment-730 I guess it would mean either facilitating or fighting off/preventing the end? Acceptance vs. revolt? Being the victimizer or the victim? Thank you for the comment! :) I've written this review a few years ago, and find the article too meandering now... I should definitely edit it. Still, I like the idea of it being "bright" -- I think interpretations that describe it as gloomy and revealing of the artist's impending collapse don't do it justice. The confidence of the brush, the way the dark blue and yellow colors lock into each other -- they reveal incredible poise and control -- how they can be the outcome of a sick soul? I see powerful, even muscular mastership of the composition and the palette, and an incredibly uplifting image all in all. I see a union of the artist's soul with the depicted, a union so strong that viewers need to "fight" for a place in that local yet abstract harmony. A true, undeniable masterpiece... I guess it would mean either facilitating or fighting off/preventing the end? Acceptance vs. revolt? Being the victimizer or the victim?

Thank you for the comment! :) I’ve written this review a few years ago, and find the article too meandering now… I should definitely edit it. Still, I like the idea of it being “bright” — I think interpretations that describe it as gloomy and revealing of the artist’s impending collapse don’t do it justice.
The confidence of the brush, the way the dark blue and yellow colors lock into each other — they reveal incredible poise and control — how they can be the outcome of a sick soul? I see powerful, even muscular mastership of the composition and the palette, and an incredibly uplifting image all in all. I see a union of the artist’s soul with the depicted, a union so strong that viewers need to “fight” for a place in that local yet abstract harmony. A true, undeniable masterpiece…

]]> By: Astraea http://artandcritique.com/vincent-van-gogh-wheatfield-with-crows/comment-page-1/#comment-728 Astraea Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:40:35 +0000 #comment-728 Did you notice the way the eye follows the stalks of wheat in the direction of the wind, up and to the left, to the corner where the flock of crows flies off to? The feeling is as if the viewer (or painter) is souring upward into the night, chasing the birds, perhaps, or joining them… Soaring upward allows him to escape the dilemma of choosing a path. He can now fly directly across the field… You were right to notice crows are solitary birds, and very wise ones. They flock up when there are many killings. They flock up in places of mass murder. What would following them or chasing them off mean? Did you notice the way the eye follows the stalks of wheat in the direction of the wind, up and to the left, to the corner where the flock of crows flies off to?
The feeling is as if the viewer (or painter) is souring upward into the night, chasing the birds, perhaps, or joining them… Soaring upward allows him to escape the dilemma of choosing a path. He can now fly directly across the field…
You were right to notice crows are solitary birds, and very wise ones. They flock up when there are many killings. They flock up in places of mass murder. What would following them or chasing them off mean?

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