Cornfield with Crows and the Goddess
Van Gogh made the artistic choice not to show the Goddess in one of his last and greatest paintings, cornfield with crows, but you would have to be virtually blind not to notice her. The painting gives one an unbearable sense of imminent death. The paths lead nowhere, the horizon looks like the end of the world, and those crows: the birds of Rhiannon (see: Mabinogion).
In the humble cartoon on the left, we see another cornfield with crows. This time the artist was not in the mood for symbolism: there she stands, fierce and magnificent.




Reader Comments