By Kerri Kane after Vincent Van Gogh
Acrylic paints on stretched canvas.
For the first time, Vincent paints the sunflowers which were to become the symbol of his artistic self. A year after painting Two Cut Sunflowers, Van Gogh wrote to his friend Bernard, ‘I am thinking of decorating my studio with half a dozen pictures of ‘Sunflowers’, a decoration in which the raw or broken chrome yellows will blaze forth on various backgrounds… Two Cut Sunflowers was painted by Vincent Van Gogh in August-September 1887.
I’d been trying to think of what to paint for our outside patio area. Sunflowers would work well I thought. Something nice and bright. However, it’s so humid here in Florida and I didn’t want the painting to get ruined out there. A friend suggested having a print made from my painting to hang instead. Great idea! A print of my Two Cut Sunflowers is now matted and framed and I like knowing the original will be kept safe and dry.
