week16

Sunflowers are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later Van Gogh hoped to welcome and to impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted décoration that he prepared for the guest room of his Yellow House, where Gauguin was supposed to stay in Arles. After Gauguin's departure, Van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the Berceuse Triptych, and finally he included them in his exhibit at Les XX in Bruxelles.


Sunflower "is all high in the south of France. When the painting. Southern sunshine make painter ecstasy, he painted a series of still life with yellow, to express the inner feelings, "sunflower" is the representative work. The artist put sunflower yellow painting extremely dazzling in short strokes, each flower as the flame burning in general, crushing the petals and sunflower leaf like flame like full screen, the whole painting like burning flame over the canvas, the painter cult show the passion of life