How does this artwork elucidate its The paintings?
Van Gogh made eleven drawings and paintings of the Church tower; one of the drawings is of a funeral.Old Church Tower at Nuenen, ('The Peasants' Churchyard') (F84) was made as a tribute to the simple, humble lives of the peasants who "for centuries... have been laid to rest, among the fields in which they rooted when alive."  The ruined tower he saw a symbol of the declining role of Christianity in people's lives.  The tower was demolished shortly after Van Gogh concluded this painting.Van Gogh wrote of this painting:"I wanted to express how perfectly simple death & burial is, as simple as the falling of autumn leaves -- just some earth dug up -- a little wooden cross.  The fields around -- they make a final line against the horizon, where the grass of the churchyard ends -- like a horizon of sea.  An now this ruin tells me how a creed and religion have moldered away, even though they were so well established -- how, nevertheless, the life & death of the peasants is and remains the same: always sprouting and withering like the grass and the flowers that are growing in this graveyard."
Nuenen