Two Cut Sunflowers

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Two cut sunflowers.

Two cut sunflowers vincent van gogh. Almost a year after painting two cut sunflowers van gogh wrote from arles in the south of france to his friend bernard i am thinking of decorating my studio with half a dozen pictures of sunflowers a decoration in which the raw or broken chrome yellows will blaze forth on various backgrounds. Two cut sunflowers by vincent van gogh sunflowers the so called two cycles of works by a famous dutch artist. Cut yellow flowers lie on the invariably blue background.

Today it has been carefully recreated detail by detail color by color to near perfection. Every canvas print is hand crafted in the usa made on demand at icanvas and expertly stretched around 100 north american pine wood stretcher bars. The original masterpiece was created in 1888. Created in paris in august september 1887.

With his roots in post impressionism and his affinity for nature scenes this scene of two cut sunflowers fits right into vincent van gogh s wheelhouse. It features the brisk blurred brushstrokes that make this artist s work so recognizable even today.