Landscape with House and Ploughman Poster

Landscape with House and Ploughman Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Medium: Oil on canvas Year: 1889 Housed at: Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia Recommended printing size at 300 PPI: 20x16 in Closest to original: 16.25x13 in Maximum at 100 PPI: 60x48 in Before placing your order, select the “Customise it!” button on the lower right below “Add to cart,” then select “Print Options” mid-upper left. Enter one of the dimensions for the desired frame size. This landscape is unusual in its elevated, almost bird's-eye point of view. Such an angle can be seen as an attempt to look at the world in the Japanese way, natural for an artist obsessed with Japan. However, we cannot speak of serious influence here: Van Gogh's view was individual and came from his own impressions. The dynamism distinguishing this canvas is alien to Far Eastern landscapes. The painting has an enormous internal energy. The crossing diagonals forming the borders of the fields and the ploughed furrows, the contours of the roofs, the row of cypresses - such vectors strain the composition, but not so much as to disturb the unity of the whole. It is a study from nature. The colouring of the painting and the action of the figures show us that it was executed in autumn, a time when Van Gogh worked not only on the hospital grounds, but outside them as well. Credit: Hermitage Museum All information is provided for educational purposes only.