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	Sunflowers (paintings) - Academic Kids (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.eecs.umich.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sunflowers is a series of still life oil paintings that the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh painted.
		Among the Sunflowers paintings are three similar paintings with fifteen sunflowers in a vase, and two similar paintings with twelve sunflowers in a vase.
		The paintings were innovative for their use of the yellow spectrum, partly because newly invented pigments made new colours possible.
	www.academickids.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/index.php/Sunflowers_(paintings) (415 words)

	Sunflowers (series of paintings) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sunflowers or Vase with Twelve Sunflowers (August 1888) is one of two sunflower paintings with twelve sunflowers.
		Van Gogh painted the first Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, which is now in the Neue Pinakothek Museum in Munich, Germany, and the first Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, which is now in National Gallery, London, England, in August 1888 when he was living in Arles southern France.
		The paintings show sunflowers in all stages of life, from fully in bloom to withering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunflowers_(paintings) (445 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Sunflowers
		In this lesson, van Gogh’s depiction of sunflowers is used as a means of focusing on the parts of a flower, growing sunflowers in the classroom, and developing students' artistic impressions of sunflowers.
		Students should verbalize that the sunflowers in Van Gogh’s painting are in a vase and are therefore considerably "shorter" than a flower they might see in a garden.
		Sunflowers are native plants of the North American prairie; One state where sunflowers would be found is Kansas.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2353 (956 words)

	The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
		The various paintings of Sunflowers and Vincent Van Gogh are a perfect example of this.
		The colors are vibrant and express emotions typically associated with the life of sunflowers: bright yellows of the full bloom to arid browns of wilting and death; all of the stages woven through these polar opposites are presented.
		The overall layout of the painting along with positioning of the actual sunflowers usually remains the same in the similar paintings.
	www.vangoghgallery.com /painting/sunflowerindex.html (730 words)

	BBC - Painting Flowers - Van Gogh's Sunflowers
		The series of paintings was made possible by the innovations in manufactured pigments in the 19th Century.
		These most famous of all sunflowers in art hold at their heart a simple parable about the brevity of life; they are at varying stages in the life cycle, from withered and wilting to vibrant full bloom.
		Sunflowers are the symbol of veganism, and an example of the Golden ratio of Phi 1.618 and the Fibonacci sequence in action.
	bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/paintingflowers/paintings/sunflowers_van_gogh.shtml (2221 words)

	Colorful Original Sunflower Paintings, Watercolors of Sunflowers, Sunflower Oil Paintings
		The sunflower painting above right, "Sunflower Series #5'", a 28" x 20" watercolor, was featured in an article about Joann's bright flower paintings by art critic Alan R. Hayakawa in the Portland, OR "Oregonian" newspaper in 1983.
		If you are interested in purchasing an original sunflower painting and want to be notified when the next one becomes available, please e-mail us.
		You can also view some sunflower paintings on the recently sold page and the sample portfolio page.
	www.kjoannrussell.com /sunflowersf.htm (478 words)

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		It is quite unlikely that Jo in 1901 could have put this number next to one of her Sunflowers paintings as it would have been better identified through one of the numbers from the list AB (n.
		This is clearly incorrect and misleading as they appear copied from the sunflowers which VAN GOGH had painted in August 1888 whilst it is widely known that he never met Agostina Segatori (his lover) again, after they had quarelled in the mid-1887.
		As it is now clear enough that the Yasuda was painted by Gaugin, it is quite logical to suppose that Schuffenecker in 1900/1901 could have applied a dry transfer on the Yasuda left to him by Gaugin, exactly those modifications which he could comfortably observe in the Amsterdam version which he was restoring.
	web.tiscali.it /vangauguin/observations.htm (2401 words)

	BBC - Painting the Weather - Sunflowers
		These bright yellow sunflowers embody the light of the south of France, where Van Gogh had recently taken up residence.
		Innovations in paint-making enabled him to use new chromium and cadmium yellows and the paint laid onto the canvas in thick strokes suggests three-dimensional flowers.
		Traditionally in Dutch painting this is interpreted as representing the stages of human life.
	www.bbc.co.uk /paintingtheweather/csv/painting/sunflowers.shtml (138 words)

	VAN GOGH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The painting of sunflowers sold in London on March 30th 1987 is a weak copy of the work now exhibited by the National Gallery there, according to Benoit Landais who has pinpointed at least 12 flagrant mistakes in Mr Goto's acquisition.
		It is still possible that Schuffenecker was in possession of a painting of sunflowers by Van Gogh but it might well be a version of the 12 sunflowers instead of the 14.
		For a long time, the Museum was regarded as the sole authority regarding Van Gogh's paintings but with the catalogue raisonné and Mr Goto's piece being challenged it now faces the dire prospect of having to share its prerogatives with those nasty researchers or at least other specialists.
	www.artcult.com /vinc.htm (854 words)

	Vincent Van Gogh - Sunflowers
		Sunflowers is one of two paintings that Van Gogh created in his delight at having Gauguin come to join him in Arles.
		Van Gogh described yellow as "the embodiment of the utmost clarity of love." This painting, done in January of 1889, exemplifies two important elements of Van Gogh's signature artistic style: an exaggeration of color and the humility of the peasant-like flowers.
		He used color symbolically and heightened the effect of his paintings by exaggerating the descriptive colors, in the case of the Sunflowers, yellow.
	www.vangoghartprints.net /van_gogh_sunflowers.html (298 words)

	NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Comparing any flower in the two paintings, one notices that in the Amsterdam version Vincent sticks close to nature, whilst in the London version the treatment is freer — note the rhythm in the petals,” he added.
		The London 14 Sunflowers — a copy, by Vincent, of the Amsterdam picture — was painted in January 1889.
		As the Tokyo 14 Sunflowers is a copy of the London picture, the Tokyo copy was not painted in December 1888”, he claimed.
	www.artcult.com /na271.html (678 words)

	K. Joann Russell Colorful Original Paintings Sunflowers, Western Rural Landscapes, Garden Flowers
		View her colorful original paintings of bright sunflowers and garden flowers, as well as western rural landscapes, seascapes, and horse paintings ~~~~ favorites of art collectors and interior decorators.
		Paintings come to you unframed so you can select framing from your local picture framer and save on shipping costs.
		Joann's "Refreshment #2" horse painting was on the September, 2006 cover of Horsemen's Corral, a Midwest regional horse lover's magazine.
	www.kjoannrussell.com (292 words)

	Still Life Paintings by Carmel Mooney
		While Carmel Mooney's landscape paintings and her volcanic series may sometimes veer towards abstraction, all of her work is in fact deeply rooted in close observation and an intimate knowledge of the subject.
		Nowhere is this more evident than in her still life work, a discipline that she has returned to repeatedly over the past 20 years.
		As the art critic Cyril Barrett observes in his 1993 essay 'Light and Space' (reproduced in the Gandon Editions book on Carmel Mooney), when as a student Carmel was presented with plastic oranges to copy for an exam she pursuaded the porter to go out and buy real ones.
	www.carmelmooney.com /still-life-paintings.html (339 words)

	Sunflowers Resource
		This is one of four paintings of sunflowers dating from august and September 1888.
		Sunflowers do best when grown on soils with adequate water holding capacity, internal drainage and drought and nearby cultivation.
		Van Gog's sunflowers are used to introduce the parts of a flower, and to encourage students' own artistic impressions of flowers.
	www.sendingsomeflowers.com /sunflowers.html (782 words)

	CNN - Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' a fake? - Oct. 26, 1997
		LONDON (CNN) -- One of Vincent Van Gogh's famous sunflower paintings, sold a decade ago for nearly $40 million, may be a fake painted by a struggling French art teacher, according to the British Sunday Times newspaper.
		The newspaper reported that a yearlong investigation by British expert Geraldine Norman had concluded that the sunflower study attributed to the Dutch artist was "almost certainly" the work of Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, described as an embittered Parisian teacher who owned the painting when it surfaced at an exhibition in Paris in 1901.
		The painting was sold by the Chester Beatty family in 1987 to Japan's Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company for $39.5 million, and auctioneer Christie's said in a statement that it saw no reason "to alter our original opinion that the 'Sunflowers' is an authentic work by Van Gogh."
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9710/26/brit.vangogh (404 words)

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		What he did know was that Gauguin had been struck by his earlier studies of sunflowers going to seed in Paris: Gauguin owned two of them, in return for which he had given Van Gogh one of his own paintings from Martinique.
		He hung these two paintings in the bedroom he had prepared for the arrival of his friend Gauguin (the works are in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich and the National Gallery in London, respectively.
		In a letter, Gauguin expressed his interest in the painting of the sunflowers against a yellow background from his bedroom in the Yellow House.
	www.vangoghgauguin.com /home/content/en/achtergrond/zonnebloemen (942 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Art-loving bees prefer Sunflowers
		About 11% of approaches to the flower paintings ended with a landing, compared to just 4% with the other paintings, the study found.
		Professor Lars Chittka said: "The results show that the flower paintings have captured the essence of floral features from a bee's point of view, and that these features are recognised by bees that have never been exposed to flowers before.
		This could be why the bees were strongly drawn to the blue "Vincent" signature in Van Gogh's painting, as well as the blue blooms in A Vase of Flowers, and a light blue square in Still Life with a Beer Mug.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4150200.stm (355 words)

	Sunflower Paintings - Original Art Paintings of Sunflowers
		Beautiful original painting of sculpted sunflowers, sunflower field & mountains - one of a kind original framed painting.
		Each of the sunflowers in this painting was lightly sculpted in low relief before being painting in pure egg tempera made from crushed stone.
		This original painting of "Sunflower Field" was inspired by the artist's view out her studio window.
	www.lindapaul.com /Sunflower_paintings_Sunflowers_Art.asp (190 words)

	Sunflower Craft \| Visual Arts \| Art Appreciation \| Van Gogh \| Preschool Lesson Plan Activities
		Vincent Van Gogh's birthday, so why not celebrate his sunflowers paintings and take our children to this online gallery to see them and also learn about sunflowers with other activities.
		Painting Sunflowers - Have the children observe Mr.
		Provide large pieces of paper (easel size, or tape discard paper together) yellow paints in different shades, greens and other colors, brushes, sponges and allow them to do free style painting to make their own sunflowers.
	www.first-school.ws /activities/occasions/vangogh.htm (542 words)

	Van Gogh's "Sunflowers": Whose Eye Do You Trust?; Maine Antique Digest, August 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Norman especially faults the Amsterdam museum for not giving her "access to several crucial documents that describe the original marketing of the paintings," such as the inventory and account book of van Gogh's sister-in-law, Johanna, whose efforts put the artist on the map after he died.
		By the third reading of her study, called "The Ownership of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers," it is possible for the non-specialist to grasp the intricacies of her argument and her many sources.
		Professor Welsh-Ovcharov's view of the Yasuda Sunflowers is "that it was painted on a plain-weave coarse sacking or jute canvas of a type used for several paintings produced by Gauguin and Vincent in Arles between November-December 1888." Gauguin bought 20 meters of the cheap canvas, which both the artists liked.
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/vang0898.htm (2431 words)

	Shopzilla - Best prices on sunflowers paintings Artwork & Posters in Home & Garden
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	www.shopzilla.com /7Y_-_cat_id--13020202__keyword--sunflowers+paintings (584 words)

	Sunflower Paintings
		All the original sunflower watercolor paintings on this page are painted with the highest quality Winsor & Newton paint.
		Limited edition prints on this page are available signed and numbered by the artist, come with a certificate of authenticity and are on high quality 80 pound raised stipple stock acid free paper.
		"Sunflower" 16 x 20 original oil painting for 199 dollars.
	www.derekmccrea.50megs.com /sunflowers.html (228 words)

	The Paintings: Sunflowers
		In recent years a great deal of attention has been devoted to the authenticity of some of the sunflower paintings (namely, the Yasuda version) Most experts, however, have come to the conclusion that the Yasuda work is genuine.
		Jan Hulsker's observation of the sunflower series truly mirrors Vincent's own--they would indeed prove to be the works that Vincent is best beloved for.
		Louis van Tilborgh and Ella Hendriks, "The Tokyo Sunflowers: a genuine repetition by Van Gogh or a Schuffenecker forgery?", Van Gogh Museum Journal (2001).
	www.vggallery.com /misc/sunflowers.htm (355 words)

	Sunflowers - Drawing - KinderArt
		Students will be able to demonstrate an interest in and knowledge of the artists who painted (and paint) sunflowers.
		Teacher should discuss the sunflower works of van Gogh, Nolde, Rivera and any other artists they feel would be beneficial.
		Emil Nolde, (1867-1956), one of the foremost German expressionist painters, whose masklike heads, contorted brushwork, and raw, strident colors were intended to give the viewer a visual and emotional shock.
	www.kinderart.com /drawing/sunflo.shtml (506 words)

	Sunflower Pictures - Sunflower Art prints of Sunflowers
		In Colorado, sunflowers are wild and full of life.
		Each giclee canvas sunflower print is individually created by Linda Paul using archival inks and canvas.
		Your paintings are very beautiful I never seen such good work in my life.
	www.lindapaul.com /Sunflower_Art_pictures_Prints_sunflowers.asp (398 words)

	JudyAnna's Watercolor Paintings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		My paintings are unique, colorful, and fun to do and I know my talent comes from God.
		I love to vary the subjects of my paintings; Macaws, Egrets, Hummingbirds, sunflowers, flags, flowers, the beach, sunsets, lighthouses, sail boats, dogs, cats, Zebra, clown silhouette, hibiscus and lily pads.
		I use top quality paints and paper and all of my paintings come matted.
	www.milams.com /JudyAnna (98 words)

	Amazon.com: Katie And The Sunflowers: Books: James Mayhew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mayhew's wonderful watercolor illustrations capture the strength of the paintings and, as their contents and people spill out into Katie's world, they change just enough to look as though they could belong there.
		While the idea of showcasing the paintings is the primary focus and the story secondary, this book succeeds as a lively and imaginative introduction to fine-art appreciation.
		Before she can clean up the mess, and put the flowers back into the painting, she hears giggles coming from the next frame, and that's when all the fun begins.....
	www.amazon.com /Katie-Sunflowers-James-Mayhew/dp/053130325X (1555 words)

	Van Gogh - Sunflowers - Oil Painting Reproductions & Art Reproduction - Over Stock Art
		Hand painted oil reproduction of one of the most famous Van Gogh paintings, Sunflowers.
		Also known as Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, the original masterpiece was created in 1888.
		Known as a prolific Post-Impressionist, he produced many paintings that were heavily biographical.
	www.overstockart.com /sunflowers.html (246 words)

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