@BlueDan
I love light and color so inevitably I love Van Gogh. Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters when I think of the world's most important painters. It's almost unfathomable how he was able to produce so many superb paintings in the more than dire conditions in which he lived. It is said that he never sold a single painting during his lifetime and now his paintings are worth tens and hundreds of millions of dollars each. Perhaps his best-known painting is Sunflowers. It was for a long time the most expensive painting in the world. I have tried to reproduce, quite roughly, the sunflower bouquet in the famous painting. I had the flowers in the garden and because they were about at the end of their life, I cut them and put them in a pot of water. My sister-in-law visited the Van Gogh museum in Holland. From there she brought me a fridge magnet with the painting Sunflowers, which you can now see on the top left in this photo. I noticed this after I took the photo, it was not my intention to make this association.
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I have always been wanting to visit Van Gogh's museum.
I wish you that. My sister-in-law tells me it's impressive. You may have seen something on the internet.
For a girl that LOVES sunflowers, it's definetely sure that she loves Van Gogh as well! :) I totally agree with you!!!
Van Gogh made sunflowers famous. 😃 Your photo is really nice - I think Van Gogh would be proud of you. When you are talking about him and the fact that he never sold any of his paintings while he lived and he basically lived in poverty, I sometimes find it sad that he can't see what he achieved. 🙁 There's this one scene in a tv series Doctor Who with Van Gogh. It's really emotional when he finds out. Here's a link if you'd want to see it: https://youtu.be/ubTJI_UphPk
Thank you! You're very kind. I too think it's sad that great artists die before they see appreciation. Thanks for the link.