Sunflowers

Vincent Van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch post-Impressionist painter after Rembrandt, although he was not popular and famous throughout his life. Van Gogh's life is a sad story. When he took up painting, it was only in the last ten years of his life. According to Klein (2007), Van Gogh painted about 700 drawings and 800 oil paintings during that time, and now Van Gogh is known as one of the most well-known artists, for whom color was the main symbol of expression. In addition, Van Gogh’s works were famous for their emotion and color, also influenced 20th century art.

Figure1: Sunflowers (sources: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_127.jpg)

“Sunflowers” (1888) was completed by Vincent Van Gogh in Arles and was made just two years before his death. This art work is the most famous one from his works, and Vincent van Gogh's Sunflower painting have been duplicated many times by various artists. Looking at this painting one begins to notice aspects that seem to flow from one piece to another. The colour is vibrant and express emotions typically associated with the life of sunflowers, bright yellow means alive, brown colour means wilting and death. Moreover, people can find two of his characteristic drawing skills. Van Gogh used his brush to draw angular and this can express Van Gogh’s mental life. And yellow is main tone and little green in this work, people also can experience passion and rich emotion. Before that, there was never has still-life painting can express so strongly effect in history of painting. Although Van Gogh's sunflower paintings are very similar in many aspects, each stands out as its own unique work of art. Without the vigour new colors, such as chrome yellow, Van Gogh may never have achieved the intensity of Sunflowers. Regardless, Van Gogh's paintings of sunflowers have altered mankind's perspective of art and life. These paintings captivate the mind and leave you astounded in their simplistic beauty.

I really like colour in his work，bright and vivid in your mind and you can feel what he want to display and show his idea or emotion to us.

This is a real successful work，and worth to study.

Reference

Figure1: Sunflowers (sources: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_127.jpg)
[Accessed: 11 November, 2015]

Klein, A. (2007) Vincent Van Gogh，pp20-26