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A golden wheat field under a swirling blue and white sky, with dark cypress trees rising on the right and blue hills behind.
Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.CC0 licence (opens in a new tab)

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