The Sower - Posters Type:Poster This picture is one of

This picture is one of at least fourteen canvases of olive trees Van Gogh painted while in the asylum at Saint-Remy

and let us make us a name

man and beast dramatically confront one another

It was rejected

his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic

The Sower - Posters Type:Poster This picture is one ofThis work was inspired by a 1850 painting by Jean Franois Millet of a sower. Vincent felt an intense bond with Millets art. Both Vincent and Millet were Christians and the former regarded the latters work as a preeminent example of Christian art. For Vincent this meant an art that breathed the spirit of Christ, a spirit of peace and redemption, into a troubled world.