http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/landscapes/gogh.house-ploughman.jpgAlright, so this first one is a bit of a long shot but is something I argued in the past. This is a painting called Landscape with House and Ploughman by Vincent van Gogh. It's an oil painting, and is essentially a landscape with a few other features in it. I would argue that this is a mental map because while a lot of what Van Gogh did was draw from life, he also drew from imagination, and in particular, from his memory. It's impossible to say if this exact painting was painted from his memory of a landscape, but for this assignment, allow me to argue that it is. That would mean that the way he paints illustrates his mental map of this particular area, distance between farm plots, the way the trees are organized on the acreage, the proximity to the mountains, the colors, are all indicative of how he perceived the area, and thus, make this a mental map.
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