I love the way museums are using the web to give us a closer relationship with objects that are on the other side of the world try this link to zoom into this work.
Or if you have an iphone you may want to get the museums app called "Yours, Vincent"
If you have not already done so check out this link to the Google Art Project Gallery Tours as well. The Rijks Studio is fantastic for engaging with the collection.
The original is very different then what we see in reproductions and the link above is closer to what one sees when viewing it at the museum.
I think the cuts through the field are almost a liver colour in the original painting from memory and I think these cuts add something to what Van Gough mentions once again this work could be seen as a "Subject" painting.
Vincent wrote to Theo about two of these works:
“They depict vast, distended wheatfields under angry skies, and I deliberately tried to express sadness and extreme loneliness in them.” But these pictures also had a positive side: “I am almost certain that these canvases illustrate what I cannot express in words, that is, how healthy and reassuring I find the countryside.”
