Vincent Van Gogh

was born in the Netherlands in 1853

The painting Sun Flowers is very famous. The colours are

and if you look closely, each of the bright yellows is

Sunflowers, 1888, oil on canvas, 95 x 73cm

Although he enjoyed drawing at an early age, he began painting when he was 27 years old.

Van Gogh would sometimes apply the paint directly onto the canvas from the tubes and it would take weeks for his paintings to dry because the

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