Today Van Gogh’s name is frequently associated with sunflowers. That is not unusual, since Van Gogh considered sunflowers an important motif. In letters to Theo and to his friend, the artist Paul Gauguin, he wrote: ‘You know that Jeannin has the peony, Quost has the hollyhock, but I have the sunflower, in a way.’Because after his stay in Paris, Van Gogh moved to Arles in the South of France, the sunflowers are sometimes associated with his desire to travel to the sunny south. For Van Gogh, orange and blue were symbols of summer.
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