One can make a mental connection with the artist once one starts to observe the painting carefully.
Cross selected a public domain Vincent van Gogh sunflower paintings and created a 24 by 32 foot reproduction of the painting on an 80 foot steel easel. Geography: Made in France, Europe Date: 1889 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 36 3/8 × 28 inches (92.4 × 71.1 cm) Curatorial Department: European Painting * Gallery 261, European Art 1850-1900, second floor (Resnick Rotunda) Accession Number: 1963-116-19 Credit Line: The Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson, Jr., Collection, 1963 Today is the second part of the lesson where we will paint over the sunflowers we drew last week. Vincent Willem van Gogh Sunflowers.
Van Gogh’s Sunflower series has been duplicated by numerous artists around the world. The structure and painting weigh 40,000 pounds. Cross has since expanded the project to reproduce up to seven of van Gogh's portraits of sunflowers that were originally painted in 1888 and 1889. Vincent van Gogh painted a series of sunflower paintings to decorate the “Yellow House” in Arles, France, which he hoped to share with Paul Gauguin.The one titled, simply, Sunflowers that is owned by the National Gallery in London is the most famous of the series and one of the most famous pictures in the world. we will use a technique called wax resist.
Many scholars suggest that Van Gogh became well known around the world, not because of his other paintings, but because of his sunflower series.