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The Light in Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night

Van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace at Night is a perfect example of the artist’s fascination with, and exquisite handling of, light. In the same vein as his Impressionist predecessors, Van Gogh set out to capture the colors of light most particularly at nig...

Love the Sunflowers

Between August 1887 and January 1889 Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh produced eleven pictures of sunflowers. Four were completed in Paris and seven in Arles, located in the South of France. The specific decorative purposes and iconographic connotat...