Two Cut Sunflowers Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Vincent van Gogh – Two Cut Sunflowers
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Painter: Vincent van Gogh
Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
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"Two Cut Sunflowers" are three paintings in the first series of Van Gogh’s Parisian Sunflower series, painted in August and September 1887. In all, there were four paintings in the first series (the first depicted four sunflowers, the next three depicted two). They all depicted cut sunflowers, but the backgrounds were of different colors. It was as if the artist was looking for harmony in the combination of the huge yellow flowers and the background. In the first picture Van Gogh paints two cut sunflowers like a sketch, sharp strokes, the mixing of different colors only structurally distinguish the sunflowers on a dark green background, they do not have their inherent yellowing. The color scheme of the entire painting is dull and dark, which is characteristic of Van Gogh before the Paris period. The second representative of the series "Two cut sunflowers" is already full of a riot of colors, mainly yellow and red palette, sunflowers are already fully deployed their "soul" to the viewer.
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Description of the series of paintings by Vincent Willem van Gogh "Two cut sunflowers"
"Two Cut Sunflowers" are three paintings in the first series of Van Gogh’s Parisian Sunflower series, painted in August and September 1887.
In all, there were four paintings in the first series (the first depicted four sunflowers, the next three depicted two). They all depicted cut sunflowers, but the backgrounds were of different colors. It was as if the artist was looking for harmony in the combination of the huge yellow flowers and the background.
In the first picture Van Gogh paints two cut sunflowers like a sketch, sharp strokes, the mixing of different colors only structurally distinguish the sunflowers on a dark green background, they do not have their inherent yellowing.
The color scheme of the entire painting is dull and dark, which is characteristic of Van Gogh before the Paris period.
The second representative of the series "Two cut sunflowers" is already full of a riot of colors, mainly yellow and red palette, sunflowers are already fully deployed their "soul" to the viewer. The outlines have become clear and constructive, the dark core of the sunflower and its yellow fading petals are clearly distinguished. The background has also changed, there is practically no dark colors and bright colors have taken possession of the entire canvas. And the last painting of the series acquired a completely different manner of painting. The composition is as if transferred from the first painting "Two cut sunflowers" and changed from a fuzzy sketch to a bright, shouting portrait of sunflowers. Harmony has been achieved - bright yellow flowers on a bright blue background. The sunflowers seem to come alive and strive to meet the viewer’s gaze, foregrounding the sadness of their withering.
Van Gogh associated himself with sunflowers, which live in harmony with the cosmic rhythms.
The "Two Cut Sunflowers" paintings are preserved in various countries:
In the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
In the Art Museum of Bern.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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