Van Gogh used simple brushstrokes to express plant morphology, which was full of rhythm and vitality. The whole painting remains in the same yellow tone, only lighter and brighter. This painting is considered to be Van Gogh's last large-scale Sunflower in the Yellow House.
In this work, you can no longer see the short strokes in the self-portrait. Here, his brushwork is solid and powerful, unrestrained and uninhibited, depicting the gorgeous luster and full outline of sunflower vividly.
He boldly uses the strongest colors because he clearly knows that "years will make them dim, even too dim." Despite various protective measures, these colors will still lose their original luster.
Sunflower broke the old rules, seamlessly combined strong contrast color with heavy color blocks, and created a new contrast color system, which had a far-reaching impact on the future artistic development.
This painting is mainly yellow and orange, with delicate strokes of green and blue to outline petals and stems, and the signature and center of a flower are also blue. The dense spots on the lines have a striking effect, and the slender strokes try to show the fullness of the disk and the graceful feeling of the texture.
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Sunflower is a series of still life oil paintings by Van Gogh, a Dutch painter. Three of them painted fifteen sunflowers, and the other two painted twelve sunflowers.
The painter began to work in the late summer of 1888 and continued to work the next year. One of them was decorated in his bedroom by his friend paul gauguin. This series presents images of sunflowers from blooming to withering.
In terms of color-to some extent, it should be attributed to the new colors made possible by the newly listed pigments-the expressive force of the yellow series has made a breakthrough. In a letter to his younger brother Fio, he said, "It can be said that the sunflower belongs to me." .
At first glance, flowers seem to have the color effect of cakes, and they are not delicate at all. Knowing that art is not a simple imitation of reality, we will immediately feel the thick shape and twisted lines of leaves protruding from the background, which the weak can never draw.