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 Hat Act was<span> a former </span>Act<span> of the Parliament of Great Britain enacted in 1732 to prevent and control </span>hat<span> production by the colonists in British America. </span>
The instrument described is a clavichord.
Although not very popular nowadays, it was important between the 15th and the 19th century. In popular music, variations of it can be found in songs by artists such as Stevie Wonder and Bjork, but they mostly used the electric version of the instrument.
