Vincent's Sunflowers

"The sunflower is mine in a way." Â-Vincent van Gogh

"Van Gogh Sunflowers" are among his most famous paintings, but few people realize that took pictures of sunflowers, and not just the most famous "Vase with Twelve Sunflowers" and "Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers. "These paintings were made to decorate the Yellow House in Arles in anticipation of the visit of his friend Paul Gauguin, and hope that other artists who follow and form a Utopian art community. Some of Vincent sunflower paintings are indistinguishable, but, with only minor differences to show a reproduction is different from the next. While in Paris, painted cut sunflowers in various stages of being faded back to dry.

They seem to have taken his passion for sunflower seeds with him from his homeland in Holland wherever you roam, and in fact, make the kind of dramatic subject he loved. From around the world today, Sunflower is synonymous with the work of Vincent, immediately recognizable, just like his own as belonging to the Monet water lilies.

Vincent's Sunflowers No. 2, "the most famous still life sunflower, yellow on yellow, has the same universal appeal and impact of all his most beloved. So widespread is the appeal their sunflowers, in fact, that in 1987, a Japanese company paid a record equivalent of nearly $ 40 million for "Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers" at an auction. Sunflower, many paintings by Van Gogh was launched worldwide in testimony of his domain, currently residing in art galleries in Europe, London and Tokyo, to mention some.

During his stay in Paris, Vincent rubbed elbows with some of the greatest Impressionist painters of the time. The artists all had a great effect on others, like Van Gogh, who was recognized as a genius formidable "Les Vingt", Monet and Toulouse Lautrec, among others. One can easily discern the sunflowers Paris from Vincent painted later in the Yellow House in Arles, as cut flowers without glasses. These are cutting sunflowers in various stages of wilting, But Vincent's final palette of bright colors and bold is apparent at this point in his artistic development, permeates the images with life and joy.

The teacher's influence in Western art and artists can not be overstated. His efforts to bridge impressionism, expressionism, cubism, and more with only one language understood by all lovers of beauty and truth. The enormous popularity of a simple vase of sunflowers is a testament to his power and sincerity.

Although Vincent was plagued by an imbalance severe mental and eventually took his life, he left a body of over 2,000 canvases, painted in about a decade, as a legacy of life. If his portraits represent Life wheat fields or the stars revolve, tender and good portraits of peasants who loved flowers or crudity lived in a simple vase, all his works bear his stamp of style. Viewed as a great way of communicating the spirit, his work was successful beyond their dreams to comfort and consolation to humanity through art. It is through his paintings, not an excess of romanticism, besieging the life that must be judged as poet, prophet and teacher he was.

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