jacob isaacksz van ruisdaels wheatfields
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Look carefully at Jacob Issaacksz Van Ruisdael's "Wheatfield's". Using up to 300 words give an account of the composition of this painting. You should pay particular attention to the organization of its pictorial space; to the use of tone and colour and to the effect these produce on the viewer.
The composition of this painting is one of a sparse nature. When you look at it, everything seems to be far apart and there is not much in the painting. The painting consists of a baron landscape with a small clump of trees in the background and part of a fallen tree in the foreground. There is what seems to be a dirt track with one man at the front and a woman and child further back. This makes me feel that the painter is trying to draw the eye into the Centre of the painting. All the landscape in the painting leads to this point, from the fields at the side curving into the woods to the dirt track that leads to them.
The ones and colours on this painting seem rather dark but leading us again to the centre as they seem to lighten up and fall on the woman and child in the centre...