Artist plants a 1.2 acre field of Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting Olive Trees!

Stan Herd, an artist from Kansas, USA has been using fields as his canvas for both original compositions and interpretations of historical art. His recent work is a monumental 1.2 acre or 43,560 sq feet interpretation of Van Goghs 1889 Painting Olive Trees planted in Minneapolis.

Van Goghs original painting hangs at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The museum commissioned Herd to create an interpretation of the painting for the museums centennial this year. Its an iteration of Van Goghs painting writ large in native plants and materials, Herd said. It involved weeks of mowing, digging, planting and earthscaping to create the piece viewable from the air near the Minneapolis airport.