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pond Impressionism (French) Nationality: Number of his art works: His masterpieces: Dutch 800 oil paintings and 1,600 drawings Type of art: impressionism Sunflowers Starry Night (1889) The Potato Eaters(1885) Amsterdam, Holland Van Gogh ? Vincent van Gogh painted these sunflowers after leaving his native Holland for the south of France with the dream of starting an artistic munity. He began to paint sunflowers to decorate a bedroom for his friend Paul Gauguin. The series of paintings was made possible by the innovations in manufactured pigments in the 19th Century. Without the vibrancy of the new colours, such as chrome yellow, Van Gogh may never have achieved the intensity of Sunflowers. These most famous of all sunflowers in art hold at their heart a simple parable about the brevity of lif