The background of Van Gogh's painting "The Wheat Field under the Crow"

The Rye and Crows, also known as Crows in the Rye, is one of Van Gogh's works before his death, depicting the rural wheat fields around Orville-sur-Vaz, France. But I prefer the previous name, which seems to be more appropriate, because this painting is not only the feeling of exhaustion and despair revealed by the crow, but also contains more complicated emotions and thoughts.

Van Gogh, a short and perfect soul, a primitive vitality erupts like a volcano, an eternal heat. Compared with ordinary life, he went too far and too deep with romantic * * *, and never tasted the success of the world until his death. His pure and noble mind is so earnest and persistent in the face of reality that it is incredible and unbearable for people who are eager for quick success and instant benefit. Professionally, he was dismissed as a clerk in Gupi Painting Company when he was young, and worked as a pastor in Bolinaji Coal Mine for a short time. He was also dismissed because of nervousness and excessive enthusiasm. In love, Ursula, the daughter of the landlord Rovai, followed by his widowed cousin Kay, followed by Christina Horney, a prostitute, but the result was either a bitter rejection or a failure that ended in discord, leaving him only a few right hands burnt and a broken heart; In art, he is full of expectations to build an artist's paradise-Taohuawu. In the end, because it is difficult to live in harmony with Gauguin, an artist with the same distinctive and bold personality, he miscarried halfway, cut off his right ear crazily, lived down and out, was aggressive by nature, was extremely persistent in artistic feelings, and had deep despair and loneliness in his heart. Ordinary people are sensitive and crazy about his accident.

1890 In May, Van Gogh left St. Remy's mental hospital and went to Orville village in the north of Paris. Under the care of Dr. Gasser, Van Gogh's health improved day by day. However, deep sorrow was still buried in his temporarily calm heart, during which he wrote to his brother Theo:

"These are empty wheat fields covered by rolling dark clouds. I want to express my sadness and infinite loneliness. I don't feel embarrassed ... "

Rye and Crow was written in July. 1890. The whole picture chooses a projection point to overlook. Modeling is very simple and abstract, with moving colors and moving rhythm, full of complicated and contradictory thoughts and feelings of the painter, full of fascinating and profound charm.