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Vincent Van Gogh painted Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers in the summer of 1888. In mid-August that year, Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his friend Emile Bernard that he was painting canvases of sunflowers to brighten the walls of his studio. Van Gogh described the vivid colors he was using in Still Life, Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, with chrome yellow, royal blue, and compared the effect to stained-glass windows. The thickly worked paint which reflected the flower petals and to create a basket-weave pattern on the table surface. The curve of the vase was heightens the color effects.