Ron English brings Sunflowers to Sakura Season in Tokyo

📍 Location: Tokyo Art Fair 2017

Artist: Ron English

Nationality: American

🌻 🌻🌻 Sunflower Symbolism

• The Myth of Clytie: Clithie (water nymph) turns into a sunflower after loosing her love Apollo.

• For Chinese Symbolism: The sunflower means long life, good luck. The sunflower was eaten by royalty to insure immortality.

• In esotheric Christianity: The sunflower is seen as a symbol of gods love.

FACTS

• There are 12 Vangogh Sunflowers