Recorded in the spellings of Minor, Minors, Miner, Miners, the French Huguenot Minier, and its possible variant Minear, this is an English surname of French origins.
Green Wheat Fields, Auvers was painted during Van Goghâs final months in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village just north of Paris. This work is a âpure landscapeâ in that there is no visible motif beyond the grassy field, road, and sky; there are no animals or figures, but instead lush flora whipped up by the wind.
âThis morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,â wrote van Gogh to his brother Theo, describing his inspiration for one of his best-known paintings, The Starry Night (1889). 3 The window to which he refers was in the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-RÃ©my, in southern France, where he sought respite from his emotional suffering while continuing to make art.