It is no doubt that Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers is the most well-known work of Vincent van Gogh. When he drew the painting, he was abnormally excited. The golden petals of sunflowers bought him a sense of warmth. So his texture strokes made the whole picture have more sculptural beauty. The whole picture is full of shinning golden color, which aroused people with much spirit and force.
Still Life Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers
To some extent, we can say that the sunflowers are the embodiment of Van Gogh. He believes that the golden stands for the color of sun, while the sun is the representation for love, so the golden color has special meaning. He expresses himself by all kinds of flowers postures in Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, sometimes he even compares himself to the sunflowers.
He is a typical representation of extreme individualized artist. He attaches more importance to his feeling about things, but not the visual image he sees. He aggressively pursues the performance of line and colors with no broad. As a matter of fact, in this painting, not only the lines and colors, but also the perspective and proportion are out of shape in order to adapt his need for expressing himself at ease. His unfretted style enables him to regard these different types of people, flowers and still life as the painting objects. In fact, he focuses more on the painting’s connotation and verve.
For Van Gogh, sunflowers are the best material to convey his thoughts. The summer is transient, and the sunflowers’ season is also short. Like the sunflowers, he ends his transient life. He is the sunflowers painter forever in our mind.
