Common Place Book Entry

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This picture of Vincent Van Gough's sunflowers is a very interesting one. I really don’t care too much for paintings or art but when I was in middle school my Spanish teacher who was into art told us to look this picture up and I was entranced by it. I marveled at the different textures and how it creates an optical illusion. On a website that talks about this picture it says, “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. Perhaps this very technique is what draws one into the painting; the fulfillment of seeing all angles of the spectrum of life and in turn reaching a deeper understanding of how all living things are tied together.” (http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/sunflowerindex.html). I really like what this quote says because it talks about how this painting illustrates “how all living things are tied together.” I think this is true because of the circle of life. You might think that is some Disney little kid movie stuff but I think that it’s an important thing in life. Everything relies on each other. For example in our world we rely on plants for food and oxygen. They rely on us humans to keep them watered and not to pollute the air. Without the plants we would die and without the humans than the plants wouldn’t be able to survive to their fullest. That is why I believe that Van Gough’s Sunflowers is much more important than what people realize. People need to really look into the deeper meaning of things to understand the true meaning.