Is a Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent Van Gogh a form of impasto art?

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I know Vincent van Gogh created Sunflowers (that's impasto art). Impasto is art using thick paint; showing texture. If this painting isn't impasto, then can someone post something that is?(Painting name and who painted it) Thanks :)

asked Jun 30, 2013 in Artworks

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Yes. Van Gogh himself described the trio in a letter to his brother as "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid; the former painted with a thick impasto ... and the wheat field in the sun, which represents the extreme heat, very thick too."

answered Jun 30, 2013