Vincent Willem van Gogh (1March 30th, 853-1July 29th, 890) was a post-impressionist painter in the Netherlands. Representative works include Starry Moon Night, Self-portrait Series and Sunflower Series.

Sunflower is a series of oil paintings with sunflower in bottle as the main content, which was created by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh from1August 888 to1June 889. Through this series of works, Van Gogh expressed his understanding of life to the world and showed his unique spiritual world.

There are 6 sunflowers in this series, of which 5 are in Dongxiang, Japan, London, Munich, Germany, Philadelphia, USA and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1 is a private collection.

Characteristics of Van Gogh's Creation

Van Gogh loved farmers, rural life and rural scenery very much. He likes everything about farmers, especially sunflowers, wheat fields, warblers and pea flowers.

He often chooses these simple images as his painting themes. In his short artistic career, Van Gogh, with his keen artistic perception, described these simple and natural landscapes, still lives and figures with deep affection and detail, so he was called "the purest painter among painters".

Van Gogh is a colorist, and his preference for color has almost reached a crazy state, which is related to his mental illness to some extent, but it cannot be denied that Van Gogh's creative discovery and expression of color. The colors in his paintings are bold and exaggerated, which also deeply influenced expressionism and fauvism painting in the 20th century.