Word: wheatfield
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...Large Billiard Table" color and pattern tie the composition together, while the changing point of view from two to three dimensionality pulls it apart. For all the brilliance of these paintings, it is "Wheatfield"--a small work compared to the others--which is the most eccentric, and the most subtle and fascinating in its daring use of materials and sophisticated intentions...
...WHEATFIELD, by Robert Laxalt. This spare, original novel about a man who tames snakes and alarms the villagers by his powers becomes an allegory of man's ways of confronting dread...
...WHEATFIELD, by Robert Laxalt. This spare, original novel about a man who tames snakes and alarms the villagers by his powers becomes an allegory of man's ways of confronting dread...
...Gettysburg there is the statue of a priest standing on a rock, arm raised in benediction, forever giving absolution to the men of the Irish Brigade as they file in ghostly parade towards the Wheatfield and Devil's Den. This priest was Father William Corby...
Pilgrims making the journey last week found the presence of Van Gogh evoked by a larger-than-life (10½ ft., 880 Ibs.) bronze statue that is in many ways as strange as the man it commemorates. Staring toward the rolling wheatfield that was the subject of Vincent's last canvas is a figure with peasant hat and deep-set eyes, the severed left ear barely suggested, paintbox and easel slung on his back. The work of Russian-born Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, it stands a few paces from the small walled cemetery where Van Gogh lies buried beside...