The key is in the concept of Earth and its essential struggle with World. Again, a reading that only touches the surface of Heidegger’s circles can see in the concept of Earth notes of Hitler’s regime and its romanticized German country life, specially after the interpretation that is provided on Van Gogh’s painting. Heidegger defines Earth as that which “always closes itself and therefore welcomes and receives in its inside”, as that on top of which the world is founded and as that which is raised by the world. The essential struggle between the World and the Earth is instigated by the work of art whose very essence is this struggle. The Earth is therefore whatbut is notWorld. Given the World is by definition all that we know, we can say Earth is nothingness. Like Heidegger said in his infamous phrase, nothingness itself nothings, which is to say that nothingness does things, it’s active. Then, this Earth is the inexhaustible source of being from which the being that reflects on its being (dasein) rises a world. Earth escapes the human attempts to achieve a stable knowledge about it. What the Greek temple and Van Gogh’s painting have in common is their power to “bring here the earth”, that is to say, extract something from the darkness of that which escapes the limits of what humans can know within their plexus of meaning (World) and bring it to the light of what can be known by us. The temple is limited to founding the historical people of the Greeks while the painting, with its technique that favors the expressiveness of the broad brushstrokes to the definition of realist lines, expresses the constant essential struggle between Earth and World. The shoes of the painting enable us to know the world of the countrywoman but if we focus on the background we start receiving gestalt images that disappear as soon as we try to retain them, just as the earth escapes the human attempts of conceptual stabilization. The “rising of a world by the temple” doesn’t lack this essential struggle which is the essence of the work of art. The difference resides in that the great art of our times enables us to know this structure of being.