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“Gauguin was telling me the other day that he’d seen a painting by Claude Monet of sunflowers… well, he likes mine better. I don’t agree — only, don’t think that I’m weakening.”
— Vincent van Gogh, letter to Theo (no. 741), January 1889
“The sunflower is mine, in a way.”
— Vincent van Gogh, the same letter, January 1889
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Tessa Marchetti · 18d
As a painter I am supposed to say something sophisticated about the brushwork, but honestly: it is just joy. Fourteen kinds of yellow and pure joy.
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Hassan Karimi · 18d
And he painted them to decorate a guest room for a friend. The most famous flowers in art history started as a housewarming gesture.
