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.
Van Gogh made more than 800 paintings using oil paints. Starry Night is an example of an oil painting van Gogh made on a canvas. Van Gogh also painted with watercolors. One of his earliest watercolor pieces was Coalmine in the Borinage, painted in 1879.an Gogh's early paintings, such as The Potato Eaters, were very dark and serious. When he moved to Paris in 1886, he was influenced by the art of Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists who were exhibiting there, as well as by Japanese prints.