Room 43

The yellows in Van Gogh’s Sunflowers differ from petal to petal and from the flowers to the vase. Stay with them for a moment before moving to A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, where marks of paint give the landscape another kind of movement. Van Gogh moved to the south of France in 1888. The light and colours he found there became central to his work. Other painters in this room, including Gauguin, developed their own responses to the art of the Impressionists. Compare how much a brushstroke describes an object and how much it changes the feeling of the whole picture. The artists grouped here did not share one method or one view of the world.