The man who cchanged the way how a flower should look like.
Van gogh's sunflowers uses an impressive range of techniques, from tiny pointillist dots to thick sculptural strokes. He also break some of the cardinal rules of painting from the time.
The colour theories followed by the impressionists dictated that to intensify colours, one should place opposing colours next to each other.
Van gogh experimented with putting a sunflower against a blue background but his later versions have yellow flowers in a yellow vase on a yellow table, against a yellow wall and yet the picture seems to radiate light.
He was not trying to make an exact copy of reality in his paintings. He did not use colour merely to imitate nature but to express emotion.
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