Stack of Peat & Farmhouses (1883), A Painting by Van Gogh, U..More

Stack of Peat and Farmhouses' (1883) : The dark structure in the middle of the drawing looks like a cottage, but it is actually a stack of peat. In Drenthe, peat was stacked in the form of a house with a sloping roof. Van Gogh'stack of peat a central place in his composition and showed its reflection in the ditch. He wrote to his brother Theo that at dusk the fields of Drenthe were transformed into a 'sublime' place, 'when that vast, sun-scorched earth stands out dark against the delicate lilac tints of the evening sky, and the very last fine dark blue line on the horizon separates earth from sky'. *Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) : Van Gogh is a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most known and powerful figures within the history of Western art.�His paintings embrace landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits; defined by vibrant colors and dramatic, impulsive and communication technique that contributed to the foundations of recent art. After suicide, he earned widespread vital, commercial and widespread success over the following decades, and he's remembered as vital however tragic painter.�Today, Van Gogh's works are among the world's costliest paintings ever sold-out, and his inheritance is worthy by a museum in his name, the Van Gogh Museum�in Amsterdam.