Talk:Wheat Fields/Archive 1

Archive 1

Direct quote - Whitman

In the article on June 22, 12:31:

Van Gogh, who "particularly admired a poem by Walt Whitman about beauty to be found in a blade of grass", began painting swaying stalks of wheat in Paris.

In the source:

While institutionalized, van Gogh read a great deal and particularly admired a poem written by Walt Whitman about the beauty in a blade of grass. He started painting grasses in Paris, notably wheat fields, their swaying leaf blades expressing movement and energy. At Saint-Remy he painted close-ups of wild sedges and oat grasses…

Reworded to say "particularly admired a poem written by Walt Whitman about the beauty in a blade of grass" --CaroleHenson (talk) 22:03, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

I wouldn't use the swaying. The swaying belongs to the original author. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 22:10, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Oh, yes, agreed! How is "waving" instead? Thanks.--CaroleHenson (talk) 22:20, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

References

The same?

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  are all three different? or this is badly cropped and low resolution
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  This is a featured picture, higher res
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  Is this a third one?

• Well, the second and third are clearly different. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:00, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Well, the question was asked by Hafspajen in 2015, but we have long had Wheat Field with Cypresses to explain the different versions. I think the first two here are different versions of the one (F717) in the National Gallery, and the other (F615) is the one in the Met. To really mix things up, here are two more: a small one in a private collection, and a reed pen version. Theramin (talk) 00:26, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

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  Small version in a private collection (F743)
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  Reed-pen drawing, held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (F1538)

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Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (after Millet) is an 1889 oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh showing a woman at work in a wheat field during the harvest. As a young man, Van Gogh pursued what he saw as a religious calling, wanting to minister to working people. Failing to find a vocation in ministry, he turned to art as a means of expressing and communicating his deep sense of the meaning of life. In his series of paintings of wheat fields, Van Gogh expressed through symbolism and use of colour his deeply felt spiritual beliefs, appreciation of manual labourers, and connection to nature.

This work is based on an 1852 drawing of a woman gathering wheat by Jean-François Millet. It is one of several paintings by Van Gogh based on the ten Travaux des champs engravings made for the journal L'Illustration from Millet's drawings of peasant life. Van Gogh's painting is in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Painting credit: Vincent van Gogh, after Jean-François Millet

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Wheat fields were a fascination of Vincent van Gogh, and this 1889 work, Landscape from Saint-Rémy, is one of many oil-on-canvas paintings that included them. From his studio room at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, southern France, Van Gogh worked on a group of paintings of the view from his window. During his stay, he made about twelve paintings showing the enclosed wheat field and the distant mountains in varying aspects. In this series, he expresses through symbolism and use of colour his deeply felt spiritual beliefs, appreciation of manual labourers and connection to nature. This painting is now part of the collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Painting credit: Vincent van Gogh

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Re recent page move

This article was recently moved by JHunterJ from Wheat Fields (Van Gogh series) to Wheat Fields, with reference to WP:PRECISION. It really needs to be disambiguated from other articles with similar titles, not least Wheat Fields (van Ruisdael). Perhaps you could make a case for these Van Gogh paintings being a primary topic, but I'd like to see some evidence for that, and there is also the more specific Van Gogh series at The Wheat Field (are we really relying on the definite article to disambiguate two similar series of paintings by the same artist?) not to mention many articles mentioned wheatfield and wheatfields. I think it should be moved back. Theramin (talk) 00:19, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Wheat Fields was a redlink before the move. I have no objection to undoing the move and putting a disambiguation page at the base name. (FYI: Wheat field, wheat fields, and Wheat Field are currently redlinks; adjustments to those might also be warranted.) -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:24, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I was hoping someone else might chip in, but it seems it is just us. Yes, I think the move should be undone, and a disambiguation page set up. We probably need to deal with all of the variants (with or without space, hyphen, capitals, plural, definite or indefinite article, etc). Wheatfield and Wheatfields are doing some of that work at the moment, and I can't see the need for adding yet more disambiguation pages, but I won't object if you prefer to do that. Then we have pages like Wheat Field with a Lark, Arles: View from the Wheat Fields (aka "Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background"), Wheat Field with Cypresses ... but I suspect the primary topic ought to about fields of wheat. Theramin (talk) 01:10, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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Wheat Fields is a series of dozens of paintings by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Ploughed Fields ('The Furrows'), painted in 1888, shows a field after ploughing with the earth lying in rough clods before the wheat has been sown. The picture is in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Painting credit: Vincent van Gogh

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