梵高《向日葵》高清图片

作品简介

Van Gogh’s paintings of Sunflowers are among his most famous. He did them in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888 and 1889. Vincent painted a total of five large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with three shades of yellow ‘and nothing else’. In this way, he demonstrated that it was possible to create an image with numerous variations of a single colour, without any loss of eloquence.

The sunflower paintings had a special significance for Van Gogh: they communicated ‘gratitude’,he wrote. He hung the first two in the room of his friend, the painter Paul Gauguin, who came to live with him for a while in the Yellow House. Gauguin was impressed by the sunflowers, which he thought were ‘completely Vincent’. Van Gogh had already painted a new version during his friend’s stay and Gauguin later asked for one as a gift, which Vincent was reluctant to give him. He later produced two loose copies, however, one of which is now in the Van Gogh Museum.

梵高的《向日葵》系列堪称其最负盛名的杰作。1888至1889年间，他在法国南部阿尔勒创作了这些作品。文森特共完成五幅以向日葵插瓶为主题的大型油画，仅用"三种黄色调，再无其他色彩"。通过这一系列，他证明了仅凭单一颜色的丰富变化，同样能创造出极具表现力的画面。

向日葵画作对梵高具有特殊意义：他曾在信中写道，这些作品传递着"感恩之情"。最初的两幅被他悬挂在好友保罗·高更的卧室——这位画家曾短暂入住梵高的"黄房子"。高更对这些向日葵赞叹不已，认为它们"完全是文森特的风格"。在高更逗留期间，梵高又创作了新版本，后来高更索要一幅作为礼物，却遭到婉拒。不过梵高后来还是制作了两幅摹本，其中一幅现藏于梵高博物馆。