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1886, Vincent van Gogh, Roses and Sunflowers (detail) -- Albertina (Vienna) [special exhibition]
From the museum label: Sunflowers are among Vincent van Gogh's most famous motifs. Roses and Sunflowers is one of around thirty still lifes that he painted during his time in Paris 1886-1888, when his art underwent a profound transformation. Influenced by the Impressionists, he experimented with complementary colours such as red and green, lightened up his colour palette, and worked with strong contrasts, which adds an exceptional dynamic to the artworks. In addition, the impasto painting style in Roses and Sunflowers makes the yellow flowers stand out. Van Gogh translated the liveliness of a real bouquet of flowers into an expressive painting that—as is so often the case in still lifes, in French nature morte, "dead nature"—does not at all depict nature as inanimate, but rather lends it a presence of palpable vitality.
1886, Vincent van Gogh, Roses and Sunflowers (detail) -- Albertina (Vienna) [special exhibition]
From the museum label: Sunflowers are among Vincent van Gogh's most famous motifs. Roses and Sunflowers is one of around thirty still lifes that he painted during his time in Paris 1886-1888, when his art underwent a profound transformation. Influenced by the Impressionists, he experimented with complementary colours such as red and green, lightened up his colour palette, and worked with strong contrasts, which adds an exceptional dynamic to the artworks. In addition, the impasto painting style in Roses and Sunflowers makes the yellow flowers stand out. Van Gogh translated the liveliness of a real bouquet of flowers into an expressive painting that—as is so often the case in still lifes, in French nature morte, "dead nature"—does not at all depict nature as inanimate, but rather lends it a presence of palpable vitality.