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This painting is not a still life or landscape oil painting in the traditional sense. Its composition is a sunflower as the main body, against a large sky and sunflower fields. Compared with still life paintings, its size and layout are more like landscape paintings; compared with landscape paintings, it only highlights the content of one object. Such a large-scale presentation of a plant as an independent exterior scene is a special program of my research.
It is not the sunflower in the general impression of people; it is not the sunflower that stands upright in the afternoon and faces the scorching sun; it is not the dazzling sunflower in Van Gogh's eyes. It lowered its head, some branches and leaves turned yellow, and even black spots of corruption appeared - it was exhausted because of the strong, and it was bent over by the heavy grain.
It was a gloomy day with strong winds and hail afterward. The world is like this, the wind and rain are impermanent, and so is life...
It's not dazzling, but it has the beauty of a unique presence. In the face of all the past, and many unexpected pressures, he stood tenaciously and was full of the future. Because there is one of the most powerful forces in the world that can still stand proudly - life. It is this kind of power that the picture sings about. This kind of power not only makes us stand, but also makes us understand eternity...