Artworks

1888 · F456 · JH1561

Sunflowers (fourteen)

Sunflowers (fourteen), 1888. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from The Sunflower Decoration.

Sunflowers (fourteen)
Oil on canvas Arles

Sunflowers (fourteen) meaning and analysis

Sunflowers (fourteen) belongs to the site node The Sunflower Decoration. That node places the work inside Van Gogh's letters, places and changing painterly abilities rather than isolating it as a single image.

Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Arles Period. The main thematic path runs through Van Gogh Sunflower Paintings .

Technically, the page connects this work to Van Gogh Impasto Technique , Van Gogh Oil on Canvas , Van Gogh Brushstroke Analysis , Van Gogh Colour Contrast . The related map below keeps those paths explicit for readers and search engines.

Fourteen sunflowers. Blue background — contrasting with F454's yellow ground. He wrote of wanting a 'sunflower symphony,' painting sunflowers the way Rubens painted Madonnas. This is not still-life observation; it is architectural planning.