Most people look at the wheat field. Van Gogh was looking at the cypress.
He called them "a splash of black in a sunny landscape." Wrote about them in letter after letter to his brother. Said no one had painted them right yet.
So he did it himself.
He made three versions of this composition. This is the one that ended up in the Met in New York.
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