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Bees with a taste for Van Gogh

Posted Aug 15th 2005 8:46PM by Peter Thompson

sunflowers8Van 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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Paul441

12-18-2005 @ 6:10PM

Paul44 said...

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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