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This is a beautiful piece of artwork.
The texture throughout the piece is unifying and creates a sense of fluidity throughout the piece as a whole. Yet, the contrast of the yellow sunflowers against the blue water adds dimension and creates an engaging focal point. The yellow sunflowers also serve as an excellent frame of the building across the water - some of the sunflowers even seem to be facing the building, as if they are paying attention to what is happening within the walls of the building.
The French flag in the background provides a lot of context for this painting. Although subtle, this flag helps to demonstrate the nationalism in France during this time. The building and flag compared to the sunflowers also create a sense of contrast. On one side of the water stands a strong building once again demonstrating the nationalism of France; yet, on the other side of the water stands delicate yet strong sunflowers representing the element of untouched nature.
On a surface level, this looks like a gorgeuous unified piece of art, but when looking deeper the different elements of contrast begin to shine through and add more dimension to the painting. The artist was effective in telling an engaging story by using the building, flag, and sunflowers as subjects, rather than people or animals. As Matt Marcure said, the sunflowers seem to almost be having a conversation with one another - personifying them even more. I like the choice the artist used not to include human or animal subjects because I believe that would take away from the meaning of this piece.
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I like this piece because it depicts a beautiful scene: sunflowers, the reflection of the lake, and the trees in the distance. Besides, it uses foreshortening. the sunflowers in the near distance are depicted as larger and more concrete, whereas the trees in the distance are depicted as smaller and blurred.