This painting is significant for art history because it challenged the conventions of landscape painting. It is a representation of a natural scene, but nature itself isn't the real background for the painting. The background is the painter's personality and inner psychological struggle. The wheatfield is strikingly yellow, against the deep blue color of the sky, leaving an impression of uneasiness and agitation, rather than serenity. The scene is an epitome of deep, unresolved mental anxiety, from which there is no way out. The middle road, central to the painting's composition, leads nowhere.
The painting is significant in the art history because it has been cited as one of the most subject to speculation, the greatest, most controversial and most powerful work of Vincent van Gogh who is among the most famous and influential artist in the history of western art. The painting had left a deep impact to people for its symbolic interpretation and vivid colors.
Regarding the anatomy of an arch, what is the springing line? The springing line is an imaginary line between where the curves of the arch begin on each side
Named after the inventor, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate. In contrast to photographic paper, a daguerreotype is not flexible and is rather heavy. The daguerreotype is accurate, detailed and sharp. It has a mirror-like surface and is very fragile.
