When I saw Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers“, I was attracted by its bright colors and the flowers full of vitality. Van Gogh had painted several sizes of “Sunflowers”, and the 15 flowers are the most famous paintings. He threw his own deep feelings into his painting heart and soul.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Monet worked on “series” paintings. Monet painted the same subject again and again, but every one of his series paintings is different, for each subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions. The viewing is impressive, when the series group together. However, Monet’s paintings are scattered in collections around the world, it’s usually only in special exhibitions that his series paintings are seen as a group.
| Grainstack, Sun in the Mist | Grainstack in the Morning, Snow Effect |
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| Grainstack in Overcast Weather, Snow Effect | Grainstack at Sunset, Winter |
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(Note: for more paintings of Monet’s haystacks series, please view at www.paintingall.com by searching the keyword “monet stack” or click here.)
In October 1890 Monet wrote a letter to the art critic Gustave Geffroy about the haystacks series he was painting, saying: “I’m hard at it, working stubbornly on a series of different effects, but at this time of year the sun sets so fast that it’s impossible to keep up with it … the further I get, the more I see that a lot of work has to be done in order to render what I’m looking for: ‘instantaneity’, the ‘envelope’ above all, the same light spread over everything… I’m increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I’m praying that I’ll have a few more good years left to me because I think I may make some progress in that direction…”
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1907/08 Oil and gold on canvas 43.5×43.5" (110.5 x 110.5 cm) in size The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
Hope II is among the famous paintings of Klimt that use of gold leaf and in rich ornamental style.
The garment worn by the main figure of this painting is an abstracted shape decorated with circles. At the bottom of the garment melds into three other faces.
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the early twentieth century. His paintings were inspired by the sources such as Byzantine art, Mycenean metalwork, Persian rugs and miniatures, the mosaics of the Ravenna churches, and Japanese screens. Klimt’s mature style combines richly decorative surface patterning with complex symbolism and allegory, often with overtly erotic content.
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The Starry Night (1889)Oil on canvas
29×36 1/4″ (73.7x 92.1 cm ) Moma , New York |
Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in June 1889, 13 months before his death at the age of 37. The Starry Night is probably the most popular painting in the modern cultural. This amazing painting will be brought to our mind by the endless merchandise products or the replicates related to it or when we listen Don McLean’s song ‘Starry, Starry Night’ (Based on the Painting).
The Starry Night is a scene most of us feel comfortable and at easy with. The night sky is filled with swirling clouds, blinking stars and the bright cresset moon. A small town lies below the rolling hills. At the center point of the town is a tall steeple church which is reigning over the smaller buildings. The steeple casts a stability sense on the town.
Van Gogh had mentioned the morning stars and his desire to paint them in his letter to his sister: “At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly colored than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues, and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. … it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.” (Letter to Wilhelmina van Gogh, 16 September 1888)