A fanlisting is a place for all fans of a particular subject to come together and build the biggest listing of people all around the world who are fans of that subject. It is an online list, no mailing list though so please do send any personal messages here - they will not be forwarded to the subject of this site. - Janine Mischor, founder of The Fanlistings Network, the original (but not official) web directory for fanlistings, dedicated to uniting the fans.
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The Sunflower Series
"Vincent van Gogh painted these sunflowers after leaving his native Holland for the south of France with the dream of starting an artistic community. 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 life; they are at varying stages in the life cycle, from withered and wilting to vibrant full bloom." - BBC.co.uk
Van Gogh's brief nine-year career began in the Netherlands. His early works were dark but later became intensely luminous after he moved to Paris and the south of France. A great collector of Japanese prints, he created an expressive style that combined direct observation with a Japanese use of outline and flattened areas of colour. Plagued by poor health, he committed suicide at the age of 37. » more...