1. "Sunflowers"
"Sunflowers" (French: Les Tournesols; Dutch: Zonnebloemen; English: Sunflowers) is a Dutch novel from August 1888 to January 1889. The painter Vincent Van Gogh painted a series of oil paintings with sunflowers in a vase as the main content. The works respectively painted 3, 5, 12 and 15 sunflowers in the vase.
They are collected in the Neues Museum of Art in Munich, Germany, the National Gallery in London, the United Kingdom, the Xingan Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the United States.
If it is defined by the "oil paintings with sunflowers in a vase as the theme" created by Van Gogh, it is widely believed that there are 7 works in one painting. Six of them have been preserved. Among the 6 preserved sunflower works, three have 15 sunflowers, two have 12 sunflowers, and one has 3 sunflowers.
In addition, if you count the works created in Paris, there are 11 (or 12) paintings in total, including sunflower works that are not inserted in flower pots.
Through this series of works, Van Gogh expressed his understanding of life to the world and demonstrated his unique spiritual world.
This series of works also conveys such a message: treat your family with a grateful heart, treat others with a kind heart, treat your friends with a frank heart, treat your work with a sincere heart, and treat your work with a sincere heart. Treat life with a grateful heart and enjoy art with an appreciative heart, just like the sunflowers blooming in front of you.
2. "Daisies and Poppies"
Van Gogh completed this work at the home of Dr. Paul Gachet, who ended his life a few weeks later. "Daisies and Poppies" reveals the surging passion and sincere emotions of Van Gogh, the creative genius. It is the pinnacle of his short and brilliant artistic career, and it is one of the very few works sold by Van Gogh during his lifetime.
3. "Zhang Daqian's Lotus Painting"
"Zhang Daqian's Lotus Painting" was created by Zhang Daqian, a famous Chinese landscape painting master. Zhang Daqian loved lotuses and painted numerous lotuses throughout his life. He described the lotus as "the style of a gentleman, as pure and as quiet" and praised its nobility.
Whenever flowers bloom, Daqian goes around admiring flowers and sketching. In the garden where he lives, he usually opens a pond and plants lotus flowers everywhere. Even in the slightly cramped environment of Maya Abode, he still uses Several large tanks are filled with lotus flowers. His representative works include three lotus paintings created in 1935, 1976 and an unknown year of painting.
4. "Ink Plum Blossom Picture"
In his painting, the plum blossoms are like iron coils. Although they are not colored, they can vividly show thousands of stamens and smiling faces. The posture of Yingzhi. In addition, Wang Mian also invented the method of painting boneless plum blossoms with rouge. Wang Mian mostly makes long trunks and large branches, and pays attention to the use of calligraphy brushes. The thick trunks are vigorous and vigorous, and the twigs are brisk and flexible, with the elasticity of young branches.
When Wang Mian was making plum blossoms, he was very concerned about leaving gaps in the denseness, so that the plum blossoms would have a space that was "impenetrable and sparse enough for horses to move around", controlling the overall general trend of the plum blossoms and preventing them from being let out. The picture is scattered, with the fragrance of peaches and plums, but no cold air. Wang Mian's "boneless" ink plum blossoms are very distinctive. He uses ink dots to directly write the plum blossoms, and dots a little thick ink on the tips of the petals while they are still wet, which suddenly enhances the beauty of the plum blossoms. It is a development of Xu Xi's "fallen ink flowers" in the Five Dynasties.
5. "Four Plum Blossoms"
"Four Plum Blossoms" is an ink-and-ink painting on paper created by Yang Wujiu in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is now collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The first painting of "Four Plum Blossoms" has four branches of plum blossoms, which respectively represent the four stages of budding, early spring plum blossoms, full bloom, and withering. The author uses a realistic technique to depict It depicts the whole process of the growth and opening of plum blossoms, and the painting is characterized by elegance, tranquility and beauty.