{"id":190,"date":"2009-11-25T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T22:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/small-vase.flywheelsites.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-10-31T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:42:14","slug":"the-sower-and-the-reaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.vangoghgallery.com\/index.php\/en\/2009\/11\/25\/the-sower-and-the-reaper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sower and The Reaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Van Gogh The Sower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/Painting\/503\/Sower,-The.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px;\" alt=\"the Sower - Vincent van Gogh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/image.aspx?fn=images\/0450.jpg\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Van Gogh Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/Painting\/757\/Wheat-Fields-with-Reaper-at-Sunrise.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px;\" alt=\"Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise - Vincent van Gogh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/image.aspx?fn=images\/0618.jpg\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/a>With the autumn in full swing, this time of year brings to mind harvest time and preparing for next year.\u00a0 Van Gogh must have thought the same thing as he was capturing <em>The Reaper<\/em> and <em>The Sower<\/em> on canvas.\u00a0 Inspired by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet, Van Gogh created several \u201cReaper\u201d and \u201cSower\u201d paintings between the years 1888 and 1889.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Sower<\/em>, shown above left, was painted by Van Gogh in November of 1888.\u00a0 In this painting, Van Gogh was experimenting with the use of vibrant complementary colors \u2013 something he would continue to do and something he would become known for in some of his most famous paintings like <a title=\"Starry Night\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/painting\/starryindex.html\" target=\"_blank\">Starry Night<\/a>.\u00a0 In a letter to his brother Theo from November of 1888, Van Gogh described the colors he was using in the Sower as \u201cImmense citron-yellow disk for the sun. Sky green-yellow with pink clouds. The field violet, the sower and the tree Prussian blue.\u201d\u00a0 Although the sun is a large and beaming yellow in this painting, there is still a sense of darkness that is present in the midst of fall.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise<\/em>, shown above right, again the subject is simple and again the use of color intense.\u00a0 With the brilliant yellows and golds of the wheat fields in this painting there is more of a feeling of life and light contrary to the subject matter.\u00a0 Van Gogh described this contrast in another letter to Theo from September of 1889 when he wrote, \u201cFor I see in this reaper &#8211; a vague figure toiling away for all he&#8217;s worth in the midst of the heat to finish his task &#8211; I see in him the image of death, in the sense that humanity might be the wheat he is reaping. So it is, if you like, the opposite of the sower which I tried to do before. But there&#8217;s no sadness in this death, this one takes place in broad daylight with a sun flooding everything with light of pure gold.\u201d Contributing to the effect of the opposites is also the fact that The Sower takes place at sunset while the Reaper\u00a0at sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gogh completed several different Sower and Reaper paintings; to see them or to find out where they are located today, view our <a title=\"Van Gogh Catalog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghgallery.com\/catalog\/\" target=\"_blank\">catalog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Letters Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Van Gogh Letter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/vangogh\/letter\/18\/558a.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, Arles, c. 25 November 1888<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Van Gogh Letter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/vangogh\/letter\/20\/604.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, Saint-R\u00e9my, 5 or 6 September 1889<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Van Gogh: Brush with Genius Brings Artist to Life\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.vangoghgallery.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/van-gogh-brush-with-genius-brings-artist-to-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Van Gogh: Brush with Genius Brings Artist to Life<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Artchive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artchive.com\/artchive\/V\/van_gogh\/sower_text.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\">Artchive \u2013 Sower with Setting Sun<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Van Gogh Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vangoghmuseum.nl\/vgm\/index.jsp?page=4500&amp;collection=1294&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Van Gogh Museum \u2013 The Sower<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the autumn in full swing, this time of year brings to mind harvest time and preparing for next year.\u00a0 Van Gogh must have thought the same thing as he was capturing The Reaper and The Sower on canvas.\u00a0 Inspired by 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