Art Mindfully: Sunflowers & Curiosity

“Sunflowers” comes to us from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, even though other versions hang in museums around the world from Tokyo to Philadelphia. Van Gogh painted five of these large canvases of sunflowers in a vase, created during his time in the south of France. Filling one bedroom of his home with these works, the space was soon occupied by his good friend the artist Paul Gaugin. Gaugin was hugely impressed with these new paintings and declared them to be ‘completely Vincent’. Soon after, Vincent wrote to his brother about his most recent paintings, that… “these canvases will tell you what I cannot say in words…" – …and this is where we pick up our contemplative theme around ‘curiosity’.