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Find out why sunflowers represented happiness for Van Gogh. Learn how he experimented with colour to capture mood and express identity.
Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the title of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, made a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase.
After practising with different flowers, he chose a specific variety: the sunflower. His fellow painters thought that sunflowers were perhaps somewhat coarse and unrefined. But this is exactly what Vincent liked, and he also enjoyed painting flowers that had gone to seed.
Van Gogh painted sunflowers for the first time in the summer of 1886. Two years later, his interest re-emerged after he settled at Arles, just north of Marseille in Provence.
Aug 13, 2021 · 1. A week before starting on the paintings Van Gogh drew sunflowers in the garden of a bathhouse in the brothel quarter. Vincent made a delightful drawing of a garden bed bursting with...
Enlarge and zoom in. The Sunflowers display, 25 January to 27 April 2014, celebrates the National Gallery's long friendship with the Van Gogh Museum, which has extraordinarily lent its Sunflowers to hang beside the Gallery's version [1,2].
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Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” are among his most famous paintings, but few people realize he did many sunflower pictures, not just the most famous “Vase with Twelve Sunflowers” and “Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers.”
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