Vincent Van Gogh
Sunflowers van Gogh
Arles, January 1889
Oil on canvas
Vincent Van Gogh
Sunflowers of Van Gogh represent the biggest irony in the life of this
artist, after he lived a very poor life, his Sunflowers are being quoted
to prices record. In an auction in London in 1987 went for 34.000.000$.
Vincent said: "Is not my fault that my pictures don't sell, but one day
people will know that they are woth more than the materials I used to painted
them"
In this series of paintings, we can admire the geniality of the painter.
Even Paul Gaugin loved his sunflowers, doing a portrait of Vincent Van
Gogh painting sunflowers.
In the majority of the Sunflowers of Van Gogh, we can not appreciate a
minimum shadow, because the light should come from the colours, from inside
the flowers. We could feel the movement of the flowers starting to die.
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