What do Van Gogh s sunflowers symbolize?

I see. I also studied art, but I didn't notice that.

In French, sunflower means "sun that falls on the ground" and is often seen as a symbol of light and hope. So, what do Van Gogh's sunflowers represent?

Van Gogh's sunflower is a crazy sunflower. In his spiritual world, everything he sees is a living life, and this life is a relationship of oppression and anti-repression.

Year 1888.

91x72 cm.

The work shows the enthusiasm and vitality that seems to be boiling forever in the painter's heart with a full and pure yellow tone, the clusters of flame-like sunflowers, not only exude the maturity of autumn, but also show the painter's ardent desire for life and tenacious pursuit more wildly. Van Gogh concentrated on the Sunflowers series at a time when he was in his artistic maturity and was very fond of using the color yellow. For Van Gogh, who craved bright colors, yellow represented the color of the sun and had a special meaning; At the same time, the sun symbolizes love, and it is not difficult to see his insistence on using yellow as a way for him to express his wishes.

Van Gogh expressed himself in the various flower poses of Sunflowers, sometimes even comparing himself to a sunflower. Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo refer several times to the Sunflowers series, which illustrates two compositions of twelve and fourteen sunflowers. In 1978, Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" was bought by the Japanese at an auction in London for about 5.9 billion yen, which shocked the world.

Van Gogh is a representative of the late 19th century Impressionism, he is particularly good at dealing with bright colors under the sun, he seems to be an artist born to pursue the sun, in his representative work "Sunflowers" This understanding and passionate pursuit of sunlight is fully expressed Van Gogh once wrote on the painting in memory of his cousin:"As long as the living are alive, the dead are still alive"The thick flowers that bloom in the face of the sun, this kind of "sun of the earth" is a symbolic meaning of his love and pursuit of life. The sunflowers on the picture are not only full of dazzling bright colors in the sun, but also seem to reveal the vitality and artistic emotions of the brushstrokes, which is a transparent, brilliant and vigorous essence of life.

Prior to this, no painter could still make people feel the warmth and power of life in the picture, Under the painter's creative consciousness, the branches and leaves of the sunflowers are also deliberately distorted and deformed, full of a sense of power, making the overall picture very infectious. It is worth mentioning that: From a historical point of view, the consciousness of the work "Sunflowers" is quite advanced In Europe at that time, due to religious relations, (Judas, who betrayed Jesus, liked to wear yellow clothes), yellow tones were regarded as lowly tones, and it was difficult to get into the hall of elegance. Van Gogh used a large number of this color in the whole picture, and used a small amount of dark red and green to contrast and set off the main color of bright yellow, making the picture more dazzling and splendid, so this work has also become a classic work of Impressionism, and has been greatly influenced by later Impressionist painters.