Giant Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

Giant Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

Van Gogh completed “Sunflowers,” two series of still-life paintings, in the late 1800s while living in the south of France. In 1998, local teacher and artist Cameron Cross recreated a larger-than-life version based on Van Gogh’s series to commemorate Altona’s status as the sunflower capital of Canada. The easel is 75 feet high and weighs over five tons. The painting itself is 23 feet wide and 33 feet tall, and weighing in at nearly four tons. In…

‘Starry Night,’ All Night Long, as a Van Gogh Blockbuster Ends

The moment well after midnight when one day slides into the next is usually a lonely time, observed by security guards and nurses, insomniacs and students cramming for exams. But this weekend, at the National Gallery in London, thousands of people were there together. They had come to see Friday into Saturday with some of the last paintings Vincent van Gogh ever made. “There’s an intrigue,” said Digenis Koumas, a visitor, musing on the artist’s …