Favourite Painting

Vincent van Gogh's Two Cut Sunflowers is an oil on canvas
(17 x 24 inches) that is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York.
So yea I actually did see this work on a school trip my senior year of high school. I've always been a big fan of Van gogh and especially like this work because of the subject matter. I'm really into macro photography(taking pictures of close up or tiny objects) and my favourite flowers are sunflowers. I grow some almost every summer. It's funny i picked my image before i read the article and found it extremely funny that it mentions his Starry Starry Night. This image is special to me because it represents something to me, it represents the fact that all things must change and go away eventually. I saw this painting with my best friend , we saw it the 2 months before we graduated and went our separate ways.
        Sorry to be so depressing, but now onto the show. <3
                          The colors in the sunflower are warm and contrast with the cool colors of the background, but the green hue in the sunflower's petals give a unity to the painting. The light is coming from the front so there is a drastic shadow behind the flowers and it almost gives them a metallic looking luster this makes the image more dynamic and gives it depth. There is texture to it as well not so much in the subject matter but in the variety and the boldness of the strokes made by the paintbrush. The texture in the middle of the flower is rough and stands out against the smoothness of the petals. The space was used effectively filling up at least two thirds of the image the sunflowers are placed diagonally making the painting all that more interesting. This as I said earlier also creates an element of depth. This fills up the foreground space and continues into the middle and backgrounds.