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Van Gogh had a special interest in sowers throughout his artistic career. All in all, he made more than 30 drawings and paintings on this theme. He painted this sower in the autumn of 1888. At the time, Van Gogh was working together with Paul Gauguin (1848-1903).
The Sower, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh. In 1888 Vincent Van Gogh painted a series of pictures of a lonely figure moving across a plowed field, a favorite subject of the artist: a broad gesture of the right hand indicates that sowing is taking place. However, the real protagonist of the paintings, which later became aptly known as The Sower, 1889 ...
The striking aspect of this painting is that behind the sower, who sows the ploughed land with a broad arm gesture, the ripe corn can still be seen. With this, Van Gogh refers to the cycle of...
ArtWay.eu. Art and the Church -> Materials for Use in Churches. The Sower - Vincent van Gogh. Vincent van Gogh: Sower with Setting Sun. Sowing the Seeds of Faith. by James Romaine. Vincent van Gogh’s Sower with Setting Sun, 1888, is a small painting of 32 x 40 cm. It was inspired by a 1850 painting by Jean-François Millet of a sower.
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Van Gogh made a number of variations on a theme depicting a sower in front of a setting sun. Especially striking in this version are the bright, unnatural colours and...
Van Gogh based this drawing on one of his own paintings: The Sower, which is now on display in the Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, NL). All in all, he made more than 30 drawings and paintings on this theme. The sower symbolised the eternal cycle of existence. Sowing brings forth new life.
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