Field with Poppies

A sweep of countryside unfolds across the canvas, with green fields rolling toward the horizon and scattered red poppies breaking up the color. Cypress trees stand tall against the land, and a yellow house sits beneath a sky full of movement and shifting light. This oil painting was completed in 1889 and is held today at the Kunsthalle Bremen. It was painted by Vincent van Gogh. Worth noticing is how the sky itself seems restless, its brushwork swirling above the quiet house and dark cypress trees, as if the weather and the land were caught in the same breath of motion.