van gogh saw the image of __________ as symbol of his own longing for the infinite.
In a final letter to his brother Theo he wrote: Yesterday and today I worked on the sower, which is completely recast. The sky is yellow and green, the ground violet and orange.. The sower was, for Van Gogh, the symbol of his own longing for the infinite. He began to think of the finished painting as a study that was itself a preliminary work leading to the drawing of this. When paint is applied very thickly on the surface such as in this work it is called impasto.