"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together" – Vincent Van Gogh
This is a thread of all of Vincent's paintings of sunflowers. 🌻
First series: The Paris Sunflowers
Sunflowers, study (F377), Oil on canvas, 21 x 27 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Sunflowers (F375), Oil on canvas, 43.2 x 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sunflowers (F376), Oil on canvas, 50 x 60.7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Bern
Sunflowers (F452), Oil on canvas, 60 × 100 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Second Series: The Arles Sunflowers
Sunflowers (F453), first version: turquoise background
Oil on canvas, 73.5 × 60 cm
Private collection
Sunflowers (F459), second version: royal-blue background
Oil on canvas, 98 × 69 cm
Formerly private collection, Ashiya, Japan, destroyed by US air raid of World War II on 6 August 1945
Sunflowers (F456), third version: blue green background
Oil on canvas, 91 × 72 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Sunflowers (F454), fourth version: yellow background
Oil on canvas, 92.1 × 73 cm
National Gallery, London, England
Sunflowers (F455), repetition of the 3rd version
Oil on canvas, 92 × 72.5 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States.
Sunflowers (F458), repetition of the 4th version (yellow background)
Oil on canvas, 95 × 73 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sunflowers (F457), replica of the 4th version (yellow green background)
Oil on canvas, 100 × 76 cm
Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
all images and summaries taken from Wikipedia here:
I have a horrible feeling that learning a whole bunch of stuff about Personal Knowledge Management and getting nerdy about tools and workflows has made me rather less effective at managing my personal knowledge
and if not less effective then certainly more anxious
maybe I just need to embrace @visakanv junkyard approach, I might just be a junkyard person
I have a talking point that I want to bang on about more in different ways
that is "you can only respond to what you notice"
not being able to notice something (if it lies outside your awareness) renders you choiceless
expanding your capacity to notice things gives you agency
"expanded awareness" is experienced spatially, but extends just as effectively into conceptual spaces
if you can't notice the bus coming, you can't step out of the way
if you can't notice the belief you hold, you can't question it
if you can't notice your emotional responses, you will either be taken over by emotion, you will miss important information from your embodied self, or more likely, both
I'm sick (testing negative for COVID though) and it's funny that the absence of a positive COVID test kinda makes me feel like whatever it is that is making me feel crappy is somehow... illegitimate?
weird times, to need a positive test to feel like feeling sick is justified
"well I don't have COVID"
"yes but I clearly feel unwell"
"yes but there are no tests for that"
...
"but this is how things *have always been*"
this is not me complaining about COVID or the need to test for it when feeling unwell
it's just interesting to observe this thought pattern in response to "feel sick" ∩ "test negative for COVID"