Corn Fields (c. 1900)Flix Vallottons Corn Fields presents the countryside through a simplified use of form and color. Instead of painting every detail, he builds the landscape with broad bands of green fields, pale yellow strips, and a calm lavender sky. This shifts the focus away from realism and toward harmony, where the land begins to read as pattern rather than place. Dark green trees interrupt these fields, introducing contrast and variation within the order. Their