Van Gogh: Wheatfield with Crows

one of them this one Wheatfield with crows was a revolutionary masterpiece the it's the painting which begins modern art the for and here's the most startling at the mall Wheatfield with crows not for what it's supposed to say about back last frailty sidekick the artist who painted this was frail at all but what is says about the conventions apart it shows Benson aim total command never fierce his contempt for the rules in his headlong rush to chunk the entire history a landscape painting starting with perspective its whole point been to create an illusion deep space so that the I could confidently wander through to a distant horizon but here perspective is reversed its a road because nowhere and the two flanking parts just seem to rise up vertically through the picture like flapping wings muslims green borders grounds hedges the corner victory all our signals are assumptions about how to read visual signs have been wickedly scrambled so what are we looking at suffocation sure buddy lation to those crows might be coming back to us but equally they might be flying away demons gone as we sink into a total immersion in the power of nature and into a massive wall a writing brilliant paint in which the kala itself seems to tremble and pulse and sway and it's with this into pender life performed blocks have kala Vince sometime call creates modern art