Van Gogh and Sunflower Paintings

Feb. 15, 2011 - PRLog -- When people talked about water lilies painting, we will think of Monet and When people talked about sunflower paintings, there is no people can ignore Van Gogh paintings. Many artists have their own personal favorite motives, which they paint many times. It can be done for numerous reasons, from an interest in the specific subject to an exploration of e.g. the effects of light.

The study sometimes makes the subject so close to the specific artist that they are hard to separate. Paintings by other painters of the same motive seem less relevant. For example, Claude Monet owned the Water Lily. He painted them hundreds of times in his garden in Giverny. However, even though Monet painted sunflowers so, but the sunflower belongs to Van Gogh. Van Gogh took a liking to the flower, which he had also seen Gauguin paint, and created a whole series of paintings depicting the sunflower. The most famous among Van Gogh sunflower series paintings is probably Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers painted in 1888.

Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings have depth that grow on you and expand in the expressive impression the longer you gaze on it. Moreover, Van Gogh used the thick brushstrokes which allows the flowers to reach out of the canvas towards you. And the richness of the colors, typical of Van Gogh but no less extraordinary for that, brings across the warmth and almost joyous nature of the flowers.

Vincent himself was also very satisfied with those paintings, we can know by his letter to Theo:

"It is a kind of painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it. Besides, you know, Gauguin likes them extraordinarily. He said to me among other things - 'That...it's...the flower.' You know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is somewhat my own."

Athought Monet and Gauguin painted sunflowers as well, neither of them can reach the richness and depth of Van Gogh’s sunflowers. The sublime mastery of this motive made it his own.

Van Gogh sunflowers are among the most famous artworks and most expensive paintings in the art world. Indeed, one version was sold at Christies in 1987 for USD 40 million. At that time, this was a record setting sum to be paid for a painting. Most of us can not afford the original Van Gogh paintings, but we can buy some great art reproductions instead. The museum quality oil painting reproductions of Van Gogh sunflowers are available at http://www.atlandbiz.com/.

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