Original artwork description:

It is a good pub quiz question but Van Gogh's painting 'Red Vineyard' - depicting the sun setting over peasants harvesting grapes in a field in the south of France - almost certainly wasn't the only the only painting van Gogh sold in his lifetime, but what is true is that he painted the sunset from memory back in the Yellow House in Arles. Edvard Munch's sunset in 'The Scream' is a visual representation of long fingernails scraping down a blackboard; in stark contrast to Georgia O'Keeffe's 'Sunset, Long Island' which is the sort of painting you would stick on your fridge door after your 2 year old child bought it home from playgroup. JMW Turner was a sunset nut but the most famous sunset junkie of all time is the rayman himself, Claud Monet, with 'San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk' and 'Houses of Parliament, Sunset' perhaps the most famous sunsets ever committed to canvas. Sunsets are cliche, but, as Harsha Bhogle says; 'Cliches are cliches because they are true.'

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Acrylics

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