Bees with a taste for Van Gogh

by Peter Thompson (RSS feed) Aug 15th 2005 at 8:46PM

Van Gogh's paintings have always interested me, but I didn't know whether to be shocked or insulted that I shared the same artistic taste as an insect. A study by a London University, which presented bees who had never seen real flowers with five paintings, suggests that Van Gogh was the favourite, with his painting Sunflowers. Apparently the vibrant colours and well-depicted flowers really buzzed them…

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Paul44 Dec 18th 2005 6:10PM

Irises is the most beautiful Van Gogh's works about flowers on my opinion: http://www.fantasyarts.net/Van_Gogh/Van_gogh_irises.jpg

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