Judging the competition + WOW! I am overwhelmed by the talent on show in many, many incredibly inspiring entries! Now to pick some winners...

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Still Life with Roses and Sunflowers, 1886

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🐈 Russian artist © Svetlana Petrova decided to add her big ginger cat Zarathoustra to some classic

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Torso of Venus and a Landscape, 1887

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Van Gogh’s Bedroom after a trip to IKEA

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had a deep appreciation for flowers as his parents produced large floral gardens. Bouquets became central aesthetic devices for him enabling him to expand his color sense in painting them. The number & range of his flower still-lives are remarkable in quantity & quality.

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And finally some blockbusters - elbowing peeps out of the way to see them (pre Supermatism) 3/3

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Many of the paintings of feature diggers, sowers, reapers and workers of the land. The theme of the laborer had been celebrated by Millet & other painters before Van Gogh but Vincent modernized it stylistically and conceptually. Van Gogh gave new stature to labor itself.

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Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap, 1885

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