I love roses, particularly dark red ones, though it's interesting that there are over a hundred different species being cultivated around the world.
Wow, really that's amazing. Is that your favorite flower?
I also enjoy peonies. Or water lillies. van Gogh did some beautiful work with florals. 
I love Van Gogh paintings, such a talented artist and I dont know what peonies are. I will google it.
The Impressionist era is such a beautiful time in art history.
It really is, I wish I had family members that bought a painting during that time cause today it would be worth a fortune.
inner qualities and van Gogh's own relationship with them.
Vincent van Gogh painted portraits throughout his career from 1881 through 1890.
The Netherlands and Brussels 1881-1886.
Van Gogh was fascinated with making portraits early in his artistic career. He wrote to his brother, Theo while studying in The Hague, "I want to do a drawing that not quite everybody will understand, the figure simplified to the essentials, with a deliberate disregard of those details that do not belong to the actual character and are merely
words, that you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need." Further exploring the connection between man and nature, Van Gogh wrote his sister Wil, "What the germinating force is in a grain of wheat, love is in us."
At times Van Gogh was so enamored with nature that his sense of self seemed lost in the intensity of his work: "I have a terrible lucidity at moments, these days when