Is Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Actually A Fake? | The Authenticity Of The Sunflowers 

If by “dry” you mean no hammy dramatizations and no unmotivated use of cookie cutter music? Then yes dry. It’s good exactly because it’s on point and no nonsense.

Yes, museum people are terrible orators...

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You are an American Do not deny it I Know its true Everyone knows it is true so do not deny it

​@@damiencallaghan9389 you're saying it like it's a sin... let the guy/girl have a personal opinion and move on.

I was watching a few 'opening vintage army MRE's ' and ended up here. Van Gogh _is_ my favourite thou I'm not sure how youtube knew that

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O M G I LOVE YA COMMENT. I KNOW THE FEELING.

When did Sushi live, and what prices do his paintings have today?

yes, yes. funny thing to end up here, eventually. what makes you have intrest in van Gogh now ?, where as you didn't have any intrest nearly 70 years ago. i have this experience, one day i got detention, made to go out of the class for being a little stubborn kid, in the class room designated for punishment, sitting out the hour until the next class starts. in the detention class room i couldn't take my eyes of this van Gogh painting (sunflowers), a poster of it in a frame, and i thought to myself, i will never be able to do something like this. not even realizing whom the painter that painted that painting made poster is. until i am now retrieving memories from long ago, some neuro regeneration thingie going on. having this memorie come back to me.

Deena Morgan I do think it’s a shame they don’t just loan it to a gallery. It would be safe there

@Aintjack If your taste is as good as your writing, you are spending your money wisely.

Anyone who spells impostor with an e does not deserve to be heard.

@Aintjack You have a pedestrian outlook on art if you think skill alone makes one painting or artist superior than the next. Vincent painted in styles and was exploring styles and what they brought to his work. If he wanted to he could paint realistic paintings with realistic styles. Art is not all about how real you can draw and paint, that's just one small aspect to a massively complex and often misunderstood subject.

@Aintjack yes but it don't mean you have it, thousands would disagree with you.

That’s why my judgement of painting is not based on the artist but by the feelings the art work send me.

@@MY-ce2qt I suspect that the very rich often have no artistic sense and must therefore rely on someone to tell them what to buy and how much to pay. There are a ton of really great artists who paint after their mundane 9-5 jobs in their basements, garages, or spare rooms. And even many of the masters didn't paint all of their commissions; they had students doing it. M Y, I agree with you completely!

Stephanie Marie local artists here are just trendy. If I ever spot something I really like I would get it though.

wolfgang?

I am a local artist and recently I sold eleven paintings to one person on Ebay. He is having the paintings framed and will sell them in his store. I've never sold a painting in my life and was pleasantly shocked when my paintings sold.

YEARS AGO A GUY WANTED TO SELL ME 25% INTEREST IN THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE, I DECINED I WONDER WHAT IT WOULD BE WORTH TODAY

I'm an artist and we are always broke. We spend our money on paints.I can get cheap canvases from charity shops and paint over them.

just go to dafen city

No way, it'll turn out like ancient aliens show

@@kevinmorrice Communist countries like China and Russia have amazing artists who can draw and paint like old masters because they use every single ounce of their materials as if it were precious as gold. Art supplies aren't cheap. Learning to see before you start drawing, learning to draw before you start painting and learning to use color before you're allowed to call yourself an artist is all part of the plan. In the US a kid with a skateboard and video equipped helmet is called an 'artist' before he's 20 and nothing comes from him but more 'radical' moves than the last vid.

black bird Lmfao. Nice pro-communist anti-American pr0paganda. 😂

*Gogh not 'gough'.

Gow

@@sandrajohnson2489 its actually pronounced van googhhhhhgogxasxzz*dies from choking

I hate to break it to you, but it's probably a fake.

The authenticity of colors is not as useful, since these were allegedly painted by contemporaries of Vincent who had access to the same materials and likely within 10-20 years of his death.. It’s the intensity of the pigment, not the type that is the only distinguishing feature in the materials.

There is a documentary on here that discusses authentic paintings versus fakes. The professionals said there are so many fakes even they can't tell the real ones from the fake ones any more.

The painting has been authenticated. Van Gogh did a third painting after then flowrs had wilted - this was actually documented.

@@kenlieberman4215 Where? And "wilting" would not produce these effects in a plant. Wilting does not defy physics...

KEN LIEBERMAN ^obvious troll account.

@@kenlieberman4215 - You work for the Japanese do you. Actually it is a confirmed a fake now.

I had a similar theory, however, I think that the painting he calls fake, is actually the last in the series. The first on the left, has little or no shading, the second, on the right has some shading and you can almost see the beginning of the stem running through the leaf. The third, in the middle, has more depth, more outlining and more shading which is why it seems more apparent that the stem appears to run through the leaf.

nonsense.

elvis459 also the stem could break if he is painting the same flowers as they age. The differences in the flowers dying could account for changes in how he perceived and painted them.

He only signed 1/6 of his 800+ paintings re VGM.

There's been many tests since, it was found it to be real

Many artist's studios produced copies of paintings that were done initially by the artist. A studio copy may be finished and signed by the artist himself. Rubens, for example, left catalogues describing some of his works as entirely by his own hand, some as by students retouched by his own hand, and some as "by my best student", meaning Anthony van Dyck.

MandyJMaddison Thank You Mandy.

what reluctance??? they did many years ago!!

Disagree. They like the painting. It’s the rest of the world that’s obsessed with money.

I hope you give your last tour today,as the vGogh museum published in their Journal in the 90s that it is an original;apparantly you are unaware,so disinterested and prone to make more mistakes.

@@crosskatt yeah you should know stuff since you read an article

Lucky you. I love that museum. Seeing the grave sites at the end always moves me to tears, and that doesn't happen to me easily.

crosskatt, modern review disputes that assertion. And modern forensics would def prove it’s a fake. But the owners will NEVER allow close scrutiny. If they did, expect several Insurance execs to commit Hari Kari!

It is a dull and uninteresting painting. If this is Van Goch, it is an embarrassment to him, and I doubt that.

I highly doubt it because the mistakes made in the stem and the leaf. He would not have made such an error on just one painting.

Thank you setting us straight 🙏

Eeeeh, no

what if this was the one he did for Gauguin mentioned in his letters to Theo and he made the error intentionally

That comment was so on point. We knew just what he meant, didn't we!

That is like those wine connoisers who wax on about how great this or that wine is, but remove the label and suddenly they can't tell them apart, lmao.

It's possible, there is a misunderstanding that Vincent would paint while he was very unhappy. But he painted while he felt ok and lucid and could concentrate on his art. I'm the same as I can only paint when I'm content and somewhat happy, while I'm unhappy the artist in me simply is somewhere else.

yeah, its a china situation i believe which is "we say its real, agree or else"

This is the same tale of a lot of 'famous' artists. Back then they just waited until they died and then decided they had value so the original creator never got out of poverty. His artwork is ugly, nothing interesting about it, reminds me of a bad song that becomes popular just cause and pay billions for, people suck at being sophisticated in any sense wish vampires existed to laugh and mock our stupidity as creatures.

I agree. Unless it was never intended to be a forgery, just a copy.

I wondered about that.

Very good point.

He was painting the things in front of him. Do not take a 3rd partys opinion as scripture. Read what the source himself has to say about it not some wine drinker telling you they know the ins and outs of the artists mind when they are just a spectator on the side of the road

Very well said, 2manysecrets.

Van Gogh painted sunflowers out of his imagination? I doubt it. In Arles, France, Van Gogh painted every scene from actually setting up the still life scene, or going outside to paint. However, one painting, "Crows over the cornfield" might be the one exception: not sure if he was actually there. The painting, his last, is one which echoes Van Gogh's overwhelming despair. Yellow was Van Gogh's color of love. The Yellow House, Sunflowers, this color reflected Van Gogh's emotion of love. In the movie "Lust for Life" Kirk Douglas plays Van Gogh; it looks like the part of Paul Gauguin was played by Anthony Quinn. Quinn's resemblance to Gauguin isn't bad, but Douglas's aquiline features don't look anything like Van Gogh.

Then you would be in agreement with the Philistines who mocked his work during his lifetime.

midnightchannel I’m an abstract painter. And I don’t really care much about VG work.

Yugo Boss Get You Tube Red-I haven’t seen an ad in two years.

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you need an extension called adblocker. i have not seen an ad in at least 8 years

Queen Bee Me neither, except I use AdBlock. I don't understand why people go on about the ads being a problem, when it's so easy to solve. It will be another matter if (or when) RU-vid decides to block AdBlock.

How have people not heard of Ad Blocker by now? It's so ridiculously simple to find and sort out.

....if the museum WERE open, THERE would be...

Doubt there were stuffed olives back then

Haha! You made me laugh! I like Van Gogh, too! I painted Starry Night...with yarn! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PiiHvc3ezIg.html

Not crazy about Sunflowers.

Think you missed the entire part about the guy that copied it.

It's also 'van Gogh', with a lower case 'v'...

@@peezebeuponyou3774Thanks for the correction.

You have a sharp eye. No educated person would make such a mistake. I suspect this documentary is a fake.

Have a theory - *(The painting is authentic - he was testing elements of paint compounds* - *He never intended to release it - thus never signed the painting* - *Possibly did it 1st, liked the subject, but wasn't pleased with the paint clarity, once dry.)* I know absolutely nothing about this case - it merely is a mix of intuition, logic, and an understanding of the era Artitst's search for improvements of their tool products.

Beth Bartlett and the Japanese knew it!

The killer isn't the visual difference - it's the sister-in-law, who had all the paintings, never listed it. That is difficult to explain.

That's true, but the darkest painting I felt Van Gogh executed was his last, "Crows Over the Cornfield," created just before his suicide.

The painting you refer to (Wheat field with Crows) is not actually his last painting, or at least while it may have been painted late in his life there are other works that are suspected to have been painted after.

@@woodwanderer From the grave???

When he first started his paintings where very dark Grey's brown's and greens. He started to be more colourful as he went on, if anything his colour were more muted and or deeper, but I would not call them dark, that was his first paintings done in Belgium/Holland.

When relatives has decided theri relative is crazy then there is no turning back -much like the illness itself which would imply the relatives are also affected by the same illness but in deny .Ask a alcholic is he one ..you will not get a admittance.

@cosmicVox13 from what I understand Theo never tried to sell Vincent's paintings even though he was an art dealer. They went right under the bed. Maybe I'm wrong......?

@@americalost5100 They didn't want to sell right away. They built a collection to sell later at a better price.

Wrong variety !!

mediocre man It does look ugly and fake... but, what if it is real? what if it is a study or a post painting by the man himself and the Japanese can tell, and don't feel the need to educate tge rest of the world? It is a possibility I don't discard.

@@jeancarlosartist I'm sure if nobody said it's fake you would never say it's ugly

Well Janko, I hope you make it to the Museum soon. I went there in 2000, was blown away totally. And would love to return, now that (I think) I understand art a bit better. By the way, Van Gogh is one of my (four) favorite painters. Two were Italian and two Dutch - any guesses?

Yes Theo died not long after Vincent

I honestly didn't know he had married.

Van gocks

You capitalized the word "fake"? WRONG!!!

MichSignMan In a title/headline, it is correct.

The apostrophe denotes possession when used in the context of a noun. No apostrophe is required when used in the plural.

If that's the case, why didn't his widow note it in inventory? You'd have to accept this is the one mistake she made during inventory. When you look at all the other factors (painting technique, lack of mention in letters etc.) that would be one heck of a coincidence.

Learn to spell

Hey Grifty Tamara, where exzctly zee schpelling mistake in dat reeply u mentshuned?

Never let another know what you're thinking, it keeps you ahead in "The Game"

Yes, not infrequently he painted more than one painting per day. I really marvel when I think about that.