Vincent Van Gogh spent one year at a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in southern France. Permitted to take short walks outside, the gleaming wheat fields caught his attention; the scene was dotted with cypresses, which he felt were underrated. So, he painted them. We have never witnessed a magnificent gold field like the one in Saint-Rémy in person. But a five-minute virtual meditative experience that the National Gallery in London has to offer around the artwork, transported us pretty close to the destination.

The art museum recently released a series of five-minute meditation capsules centred around famous artworks including Van Gogh-s Wheat Fields with Cypresses. The other six include JMW Turner-s Rain, Steam and Speed, Odilon Redon-s Ophelia among the Flowers, Rosa Bonheur-s The Horse Fair, Richard Parkes Bonnington-s An Estuary in Northern France, Francisco de Zurbarán-s A Cup of Water and a Rose, and Akseli Gallen-Kallela-s Lake Keitele.