Van Gogh Owns the Sunflower

The Sunflower (Helianthus) has been the subject of many great paintings by famous artists over the decades and with good reason due their magnificent flowering head. Yet Vincent Van Gogh and sunflowers have always been synonymous with each other thought over the years with one of Van Gogh most famous series of paintings devoted to this flower. read the full article of Van Gogh Owns the Sunflower

Van Gogh and the Almond Tree

Van Gogh paintings have a number of motives that he liked to return to at specific times of his career. Among these, we find self portraits, Sunflowers, Cypress Trees, What Fields and flowers.

 

Another series was dedicated to flowering orchards. <strong>Van Gogh painted this series of 14 paintings</strong> when he first arrived in Arles in 1888. Full of optimism and hope for the future, Van Gogh’s depiction of the orchards fully reflected this. He was on his way to found his colony of artists in the beautiful French countryside. This upbeat mindset was reflected in the series of 14 paintings.

 

Almond Tree on Blossom is among these painted by Van Gogh in early 1888. It depicts a single Almond Tree blossoming in the early spring in an orchard outside of Arles. While spring is yet to completely banish the hold of winter on the land, the flowers are blooming and brings new life to the countryside. Van Gogh’s focus here is clearly on the flowers of the tree themselves and the new life they bring. Perhaps he himself shared this sense of re-birth at this time in his own life. Having escaped Paris to start anew in Arles, this was indeed also the artistic rebirth of Van Gogh as he continued to produce some of the most potent works of art ever.

 

The <strong>flowers of the almond trees</strong> are thus a forbearer for the beauty that the summer was yet to bring. Van Gogh reproductions.