Focusing on the Periods of Wheat Fields, analyze the June – Harvest about the Arles.
June – Harvest During the last half of June he worked on a group of ten "Harvest" paintings, which allowed him to experiment with color and technique. "I have now spent a week working hard in the wheatfields, under the blazing sun," Van Gogh wrote on 21 June 1888 to his brother Theo. He described the series of wheat fields as "…landscapes, yellow—old gold—done quickly, quickly, quickly, and in a hurry just like the harvester who is silent under the blazing sun, intent only on the reaping."Wheat Fields also Wheat Fields with the Alpilles Foothills in the Background is a view of the vast, spreading plain against a low horizon. Nearly the entire canvas is filled with the wheat field.  In the foreground is green wheat of yellow, green, red, brown and black colors, which sets off the more mature, golden yellow wheat.  The Alpilles range is just visible in the distance.
Van Gogh wrote about Sunset: Wheat Fields Near Arles:  "A summer sun... town purple, celestial body yellow, sky green-blue.  The wheat has all the hues of old gold, copper, green-gold or red-gold, yellow gold, yellow bronze, red-green."  He made this work during the height of the mistral winds.  To prevent his canvas from flying away, van Gogh drove the easel into the ground and secured the canvas to the easel with rope.Arles: View from the Wheat Fields (Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background),  another painting of this series, represents the harvest.  In the foreground are sheaves of harvested wheat leaning against one another.  The center of the painting depicts the harvesting process.			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
Wheat Stacks with Reaper was made in June, 1888 (as indicated by the F number sequence) or June 1890 in Auvers as noted by the Toledo Museum of Art, where it resides.  Of the figure "the reaper" Van Gogh expressed his symbolic, spiritual view of those who worked close to nature in a letter to his sister in 1889:  "aren’t we, who live on bread, to a considerable extent like wheat, at least aren't we forced to submit to growing like a plant without the power to move, by which I mean in whatever way our imagination impels us, and to being reaped when we are ripe, like the same wheat?"
Harvest in Provence is a particularly relaxed version of the harvest paintings. The painting, made just outside Arles, is an example of how Van Gogh used color in full brilliance to depict "the burning brightness of the heat wave." The painting is also called the Grain Harvest of Provence or Corn Harvest of Provence.
In the foreground of Honolulu Museum of Art's Wheat Field are sheaves of harvested wheat.  Horizontal bands mark the wheat fields, behind which are trees and houses on the horizon.  His work, like that of his friend Paul Gauguin, that emphasized personal expression over literal composition led to the expressionist movement and towards twentieth-century Modernism.
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