This is it. Why are there three birds (crows?) above that field in Van Gogh's painting? The answer is: who cares — they bring something to the painting, and no

This is it. Why are there three birds (crows?) above that field in Van Gogh's painting? The answer is: who cares — they bring something to the painting, and no explaination would greatly change that. Maybe a definite explaination would even hurt the mystery and thus the reception. The value of some art lies in what it means to you, the mental doors it opens or the emotions it tingles. All of this can be so subjective that any explaination is ultimately without any real value. Sure it is interesting to know if Van Gogh used those birds elsewhere, or what they might represent for himself, with his moving biography. But when I am looking at that picture, all of that is not important.