江苏省常州市西夏墅中学高中英语 unit3 the world of colours and light reading加课件1 牛津译林版选修.pptVIP

Do you know the name of the film? Which famous artist and his masterpiece are mentioned in the film? Do you recognize them? 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 m