No other artist in the history of art have been identified so closely with each other as Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh. Their often explosive relationship has been dramatized in many books and films, focusing particularly on their week nine remain together at Arles in the South of the France during the last months of 1888. An experiment that began in a positive way, by announcing the beginning of an artistic colony, the Studio of the South, but turned to drama in a universally known incident, regardless of your background in art. For a few days before Christmas, Van Gogh cut off his ear (in fact his earlobe) and began its long descent in mental illness.
We know details of Gauguin, because he was there. According to his account, he was the original purpose of the frenzy of Van Gogh, caused by the realization of the latter that his friend Paul left him. However, Van Gogh turned his anger on him. Gauguin "Vincent had returned home after my departure," shortly after, related "and cut off his ear cleaning through." "Then he put a beret over his head and is big went to a brothel to pull the ear for a miserable girl...."
Gauguin, Van Gogh never see again each other. Vincent would be suicide for a year and a half later, leaving to posterity some two thousand works of art.
However, there is a sequel to this story. Because Gauguin, Van Gogh continued their friendship remotely, exchange of letters until the death of Vincent. Their love and passion for art, the two, even during the stay of Vincent in a mental institution, where he was allowed to keep paint, binding create these masterpieces such as starry night, often seen as a symbol of our time.
Something different, connected, Gauguin to Van Gogh: sunflowers, another icon of Vincent of life vision. For Vincent painted expressive for his friend Gauguin, back in August 1888, for Paul moving in the House that the two would share in Arles. "Now that I hope to live with Gauguin in a studio of our own, I want to make a decoration for our studio", Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, nothing that "big sunflower."
Shortly after, Vincent decided to decorate the bedroom Gauguin with the paintings of sunflowers. And the beauty of this room haunted Gauguin during the thirteen years he survived Vincent. Paul would write unforgettable sunflowers with purple eyes shining golden in the light of the Sun through his bedroom curtains. "They bathe their stems in a yellow pot on a yellow table." In the corner of the painting, the signature of the painter: Vincent, "Gauguin will remember long after, as if he could still see extraordinary creations of Van Gogh before him.".
Even when Gauguin moved to the exotic world of Tahiti, where he lived for most of the last decade of his life, he could not escape the memory of Vincent and sunflower. Sick, alone and far from his homeland of France, Gauguin probably spent his days dwelling on the past, including his time with Vincent. For in October 1898, almost ten years after the first observation paints sunflowers that had filled the walls of his bedroom in Arles, Gauguin wrote to a friend asking him to send a few sunflower seeds.
In the middle of the tropical flowers of Tahiti, Gauguin tended her garden of sunflower seed imported until 1901, when he was ready to recreate with his brush. Not not one, but four paintings would be as if Gauguin could not stop until it had completed its own vision of sunflowers. Two of them, all two entitled, still-life with sunflowers on a wheelchair, are dark, naturalistic appearance, while still-life with blooms, sunflowers and mangoes with the colors of the dream of the imagination of Gauguin. Sunflower with the hope of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is beyond his ship timber of Tahiti with the generosity of fertility and growth.
Shortly after their completion, Gauguin leave Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands, a chain remote island located at 750 kilometres. He died a few years more later, in 1903, becoming like his friend Vincent, one of the legends of the art.
To see the sunflowers of Gauguin, Van Gogh paintings, go to http://www.artseverydayliving.com, click on his blog and see the sunflowers by Van Gogh article: Haunting of Gauguin.
Extract from a letter from Vincent Van Gogh letters of Vincent Van Gogh is edited by Mark Roskill, while the quotations from the writings of Gauguin come from the Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and nine weeks Turbulent in Provence by Martin Gayford, Van Gogh, Gauguin: The Studio of the South by Douglas W. Druick.
Joan Hart is Director Executive of the Museum One, Inc., a broadcasting service non-profit in Washington, D.C., integrating the arts of the local community. She is the author of eyes with an artist: learning to live creatively, how-to-book that helps readers develop their own internal creativity and apply it to a personal cycle of daily life. For more information, visit http://www.artseverydayliving.com/.
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