Sunflowers (van Gogh series) - Wikipedia
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.
Vincent van Gogh - Sunflowers
Van Gogh’s paintings of Sunflowers are among his most famous. He did them in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888 and 1889. Vincent painted a total of five large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with three shades of yellow ‘and nothing else’.
Van Gogh’s Marvelous Flower Paintings - DailyArt Magazine
Jun 13, 2024 · Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was an incredibly prolific artist whose paintings are known all over the world. Besides self-portraits and landscapes, he also produced an immense number of floral artworks. Let’s take a relaxing walk among Van Gogh’s flowers!
What You Need to Know About Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
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. He gave sunflowers the lead role in several paintings.
Vincent van Gogh | Irises | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In May 1890, just before he checked himself out of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted four exuberant bouquets of spring flowers, the only still lifes of any ambition he had undertaken during his yearlong stay: two of irises, two of roses, in contrasting color schemes and formats.
Vincent van Gogh | Sunflowers | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Van Gogh painted four still lifes of sunflowers in Paris in late summer 1887. There is an oil sketch for this picture (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) as well as another painting of two sunflowers also signed and dated 1887 (Kunstmuseum Bern), and a larger canvas showing four sunflower heads (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo).
Vincent van Gogh | Roses | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
These bouquets and their counterparts—an upright composition of irises (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) and a horizontal composition of roses (National Gallery of Art, Washington)—were conceived as a series or ensemble.
Vincent van Gogh - Vase of Flowers
Vincent van Gogh - Vase of Flowers - Van Gogh Museum. This flower still life is not unfinished, even if it looks that way. Van Gogh painted it with loose and clearly rapid brushstrokes, as he was increasingly doing since he went to live in Auvers.
Vincent van Gogh | Sunflowers | NG3863 | National Gallery, London
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist
Dec 21, 2023 · Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower. Discover the brilliant artworks that resulted from Vincent van Gogh’s love affair with sunflowers. Dec 21, 2023 • By Elizabeth Berry, BA English, Italian, & Writing Seminars.