What cultural events were happening when van gogh was painting "Sunflowers" the artwork?

i searched wikipedia and it was made in 1888 but i couldn't find cultural events happening around when the artwork was made..

yes, i did attempt to search it and my last resort was to ask here..

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What cultural events were happening when van gogh was painting "Sunflowers" the artwork?palace theatre

Vincent van Gogh painted these sunflowers after leaving his native Holland for the south of France with the dream of starting an artistic community. He began to paint sunflowers to decorate a bedroom for his friend Paul Gauguin.

The series of paintings was made possible by the innovations in manufactured pigments in the 19th Century. Without the vibrancy of the new colours, such as chrome yellow, Van Gogh may never have achieved the intensity of Sunflowers.

These most famous of all sunflowers in art hold at their heart a simple parable about the brevity of life; they are at varying stages in the life cycle, from withered and wilting to vibrant full bloom. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/paintingflo...

SPEAKS ABOUT HIS TIME IN ARLE, FRANCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van...

In June he visited Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He gave drawing lessons to a Zouave second lieutenant, Paul-Eugène Milliet, who also became a companion. MacKnight introduced him to Eugène Boch, a Belgian painter, who stayed at times in Fontvieille (they exchanged visits in July). Gauguin agreed to join him in Arles. In August he painted sunflowers; Boch visited again. On 8 September, upon advice from his friend the station's postal supervisor Joseph Roulin, he bought two beds,[61] and he finally spent the first night in the still sparsely furnished Yellow House on 17 September.[62];

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