Famous american art wheat fields
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Agnes Denes resurrects famous ‘Wheatfield’ work in Montana
In , Agnes Denes planted, tended and harvested a two-acre field of golden wheat near the World Trade Center on valuable nation that would soon be developed into Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan. This improbable intrusion in the dense urban landscape “represented food, energy, commerce, world trade and economics”, the conceptual and environmental artist wrote in her documentation of Wheatfield—A Confrontation. “It referred to mismanagement, waste, world hunger and ecological concerns. It called attention to our misplaced priorities.”
More than four decades later, Denes, now 93, has repositioned her pioneering work of Land art in the context of Bozeman, Montana, at Tinworks Art. In a booming city losing open space and agricultural land to rapid development, Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground is sprouting across an acre and a half at a former industrial site—including a tin manufacturing warehouse, agr
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The Wheat Field (c. –77)
George Inness was a prominent American landscape painter.
One of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced, in turn, by the Old Masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found vivid expression in the work of Inness's maturity (–).
Although Inness's style evolved through distinct stages over a prolific career that spanned more than forty years and 1, paintings, his works consistently earned acclaim for their powerful, coordinated efforts to elicit depth of mood, atmosphere, and emotion. Neither pure realist nor impressionist, Inness was a transitional figure who intended for his works to combine both the earthly and the ethereal in order to capture the complete essence of a locale. A master of light, color, and shadow, he became noted for creating highly ordered and complex scenes that often juxtaposed hazy or blurred elements
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Wheat Fields
Series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh
This article is about the series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. For the painting by Jacob van Ruisdael, see Wheat Fields (Ruisdael). For other uses, see Wheatfield.
Wheat Fields is a series of dozens of paintings by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh, products of his religious studies and sermons, connection to nature, appreciation of manual laborers and desire to provide a means of offering comfort to others. The wheat field works demonstrate his progression as an artist from the drab Wheat Sheaves made in in the Netherlands to the colorful and dramatic – paintings from Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise in rural France.
Wheat as a subject
[edit]Failing to find a vocation in ministry, Van Gogh turned to art as a means to express and communicate his deepest sense of the meaning of life. Cliff Edwards, author of Van Gogh and God: A Creative Spiritual Quest wrote: "Vincent's life was a quest f