Symbolic Sunflower vintage costume jewelry

Symbolic Sunflower vintage costume jewelry

Van Gogh created 11 paintings with sunflowers, and they are the ones that inspire designers to create jewelry with sunflowers. First, Van Gogh created 4 still lifes with plucked sunflowers. He painted them in Paris in 1887. And the very famous sunflowers in a clay vase were painted by Van Gogh a year later in the city of Arles in the south of France. Noteworthy, his painting “Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers” (1888) entered the list of the 25 most expensive paintings in the world ($ 74.5 million).
Undoubtedly, it was this painting that inspired Yves Saint Laurent to create this brooch for AVON. It is filled with colors and cheerfulness. Just like in Arles, where Van Gogh came for the sun and bright colors. Created in 1994, the jewelry collection inspires with vibrant rich enamels and matte gold.
Although the native land of the sunflower is North America, where the indigenous population used the flower only for food, the sunflower also has a special place in Asia. According to belief, sunflower removes radiation from the soil, that’s why the Japanese plant sunflowers in their fields. Thus, in the Land of the Rising Sun, the sunflower has become a symbol of hope.

According to Chinese feng shui traditions, the sunflower is a symbol of wealth. For prosperity and financial well-being, you need to put a bouquet of 9 sunflowers in the far right corner of the central room. But if this is not possible, hang a picture of sunflowers, or just wear a sunflower as a brooch or pendant. Any image of sunflowers have the same energy. And if you don’t know what to give to your loved ones, any decoration with a sunflower design will be an excellent choice.
They say that God gave people sunflowers to inspire us with the example of the most sincere devotion, because even on the most cloudy day, they look up to the sky in anticipation of the Sun.

Symbolic Sunflower vintage costume jewelry