Sunflowers

I am going to introduce an artistic masterpiece whose original name was Tournesols but well known as the Sunflowers that painted by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. It's actually two series of still life paintings but I prefer the early one that executed in Paris in 1887, which depicts the flowers lying on the ground. I first saw it on the page of an art book while I was reading in the university, it was a thrilling painting for the colar and the composition of a picture. The painter, Vincent was hanging around the edge of the Impressionist circle during the creation period, carrying with him an air of creative danger. He envisioned his sunflower work as a series and worked diligently on them in anticipation of the arrival in Arles of his friend, Paul Gauguin. The picture is threateningly mysterious, with the black seed heads bristling with irre-pressible life force, and organisms landing violently from a burning star. The color itself seems to tremble and pulse and sway. The vibrancy of new industrial pigments such as chrome yellow allowed van Gogh to achieve the intensity of the Sunflowers, which made me sink into a total immersion in the overwhelming power of nature. The very essence of what made the scene work－the nourishing light reflects Vincent's very mindscape, it is unflinching, tumultuous, heroic and completely new. That's why I was so fascinated about it.