Wheatfield, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh create this painting on June, 1888. In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote:

The color is actually very fine here. When the green is fresh, it is a rich green, such as we rarely see in the North, calm. When it is burnt and dusty, it does not look ugly, but then the landscape acquires golden tones of all kinds of colors, green-gold, yellow-gold, pink-gold, bronze- or copper-gold-in fact, from lemon yellow to the dull yellow color of, for instance, a heap of threshed grain. That with the blue-from the deepest royal blue in the water to that of forget-me-nots, cobalt, mainly bright clear blue-greenish blue and violet blue.

Of course, this orange is seductive-a sunburnt face looks orange. Also because there is so much yellow, violet makes an immediate impact; a rush fence or gray hatched roof or a cultivated field looks much more violet than it does in our part of the world. Also, as you already suspect, the people here are often beautiful. In a word, I believe that life here is rather more to be thankful for than it is in many other places.