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The ever-present laborer on the land appears and reappears in #VanGoghs work in the eternal cycles of life -- sowing, reaping, harvesting.
Fields & workers: #VanGogh elevated the earth, its produce, the hands that tilled the land and the dignity of the artist's fruitful labor.
The early drawings of Van Gogh from the 1880's era are somber and powerful in their intense analysis of form and themes of ardent labor.
Van Gogh's love of the laborer was a constant theme in his art, he identified with those who worked with their hands & cultivated the earth.
#VANGOGHSUNTOLDJOURNEY #Cezanne made the still-life a summit of the art of painting by giving it the weight and significance of a landscape.
For #VanGogh workers tending fields were symbolic of humankind toiling in the fields of life & finding satisfaction in their honest efforts.
Rembrandt creates high drama with a raging sea. Van Gogh does it with a cosmic cypress tree surrounded by heavenly orbs and a blue radiance.
Van Gogh's gospel themes had a profound impact on many artists in Germany at the turn of the century--one of them was Kathe Kollwitz.