Describe the Picture “Vase with 12 Sunflowers”

When I was in my middle school there was a picture hanging on the wall outside our classroom. It was an oil painting. The content is very simple: A yellow vase with 12 yellow sunflowers on a yellow table on a blue-green background. The top half of the vase was bright yellow and the bottom half was dull dark yellow. There was a small signature of "Vincent" on the middle of the vase. Yes, the painting was painted by the great Dutch artist - Vincent Van Gogh in 1888.

The 12 flowers were pointing all over the place. Some in golden yellow were vivid, full of life, while some in dark yellow were smeared, dying. They showed the all stages of sunflowers from full bloom to withering also resembled the short lifetime of Vincent - his lust and passion for life and art and his depression and suffering in life.

This painting is not only a mock of reality but also an expression of the mental world.

It's amazing how different people can have different perceptions of the same painting.