"Piece inspired by the work" "Vase with twelve sunflowers" by Vincent van Gogh, Arles collection. By 1888, Van Gogh was fed up with feeling "totally numb" in Paris. For this reason, he went to the south of France and settled in the idyllic commune of Arles. There he found greater artistic inspiration, which led him to return to his favorite Sunflower themes. This new "taste" resulted in his Sunflowers of Arles series, a five-piece collection with studies of these flowers in vases. He painted the flowers in various shades of yellow, demonstrating that it was possible to create an image with many variants of a single color without losing eloquence. "