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In 1890, just a few days before taking his own life, Vincent van Gogh painted “Wheat Field With Cypresses”, a wonderfully abstract landscape van Gogh apparently felt would be the appropriate exit from his haunted existence. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this piece can be found between “Women Picking Olives” and “Olive Orchard,” both of which display van Gogh’s love of nature. “Wheat Field With Cypresses” is a grand landscape painted very abstractly, much like a daytime version of “Starry Night.” The beauty shown within the clouds, trees, and wheat, all simultaneously blowing in the wind draws the viewer in. In van Gogh’s sky he uses a broad mixture of blues swirling among the heavenly clouds. His trees and grass use a varity of shades of green as well, while the wheat field itself contrasts this as a rich golden-brown. Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter, whose work represents the archetype of expressionism, as well as the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Van Gogh was born March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, son of a Dutch Protestant pastor. His mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus, who liked to sketch and paint wildflowers in her spare time as a hobby, wa