van Gogh Wine Label
10 x 12 inches
Oil Painting
Connoisseur Wine Masters Series
Who doesn't love van Gogh, one of the greatest painters of all time.
Did you ever see the movie Vincent and Leo?
This is Vincent's story and how his brother always took
care of him and he surely needed a lot of care.
He was mentally unstable most of his life.
He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout
his life, and died largely unknown, at the age of 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death.
He has always been known for his Sunflowers and Self Portraits so I thought it
would be nice to do a homage to him using both elements.
The painting in the back ground is a peek at one of
Vincent's sunflowers with an added touch of sunflowers
in the wine glass.
van Gogh's Sunflowers
Sunflowers (series of paintings)
Original title, in French: Tournesols
Sunflowers are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 gives the flowers laying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. About eight months later Van Gogh hoped to welcome and to impress Gauguin again with Sunflowers, now part of the painted décoration he prepared for the guestroom of his Yellow House where Gauguin was supposed to stay in Arles. After Gauguin's departure Van Gogh imagined the two major versions as wings of the Berceuse Triptych, and finally he included them in his exhibit at Les XX in Bruxelles.
As Van Gogh anticipated in 1889, the Sunflowers finally became his, and served - combined with self-portraits - as his artistical arms and alter ego up to the present day: no retrospective Van Gogh exhibition since 1901 voluntarily missed to include them, and a wealth of forgeries as well as record-setting price payed at auction acknowledges their public success: Perhaps, because Van Gogh's Sunflowers are more than his or him - they may be considered, as Gauguin put it, the flower.
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