Винсент Ван Гог - Долина с пахарем при взгляде сверху 1889

Olive Picking 1889 Olive Picking 1889 A Road at Saint-Remy with Female Figure 1889 Valley with Ploughman Seen from Above 1889 Wooden Sheds 1889 First Steps after Millet 1890 Morning Peasant Couple Going to Work 1890
Винсент Ван Гог - Долина с пахарем при взгляде сверху 1889

Долина с пахарем при взгляде сверху 1889
33x41см холст/масло
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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From the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia:
This landscape is unusual in its elevated, almost bird's-eye point of view. Such an angle can be seen as an attempt to look at the world in the Japanese way, natural for an artist obsessed with Japan. However, we cannot speak of serious influence here: Van Gogh's view was individual and came from his own impressions. The dynamism distinguishing this canvas is alien to Far Eastern landscapes. The painting has an enormous internal energy. The crossing diagonals forming the borders of the fields and the ploughed furrows, the contours of the roofs, the row of cypresses - such vectors strain the composition, but not so much as to disturb the unity of the whole. It is a study from nature. The colouring of the painting and the action of the figures show us that it was executed in autumn, a time when Van Gogh worked not only on the hospital grounds, but outside them as well.