The Power of Art: Van Gogh's Thoughts on 1
The film begins with a review of Picasso's early works. At that time, Picasso was immersed in his own artistic world and subverted his inherited tradition with unparalleled talent and skills. Such as beauty, such as history. The charm of naked women is more or less mysterious and charming in tradition, but in The Girl of avignon, it becomes a prostitute standing in a row to show her nakedness. The general's hand holding the horse with one hand was once the standard description of power. In Picasso's Wild Boy, the same one-handed casual style is extracted from history and space. How familiar he was with the repeated and skillful use of various elements by his former great painters, but Picasso insisted: no! Now, form is greater than content.
Picasso at this time is not the Picasso who can draw guernica. He is too lazy to care about politics. His friend said:? Picasso, that's someone I know who has nothing to do with politics. ?
But the pace of life is still faster than art, Picasso returned to Spain again and witnessed the bloody remnants of the Spanish bullring in the 1930s with his new lover. Dead people or cows, the smell of blood. This scene is really unforgettable for him. 1937 in guernica, bombers flew over people wearing cloth shirts or hats, almost? Inadvertently? (? Almost casually? ) Drop a few bombs. Is this a black joke? The hen laid her eggs in the wrong place? This is not a battlefield. But life has no time to ponder these jokes. Guernica only knew that he suddenly went from day to night, filled with smoke and the house caught fire. The black and white world is printed in black and white newspapers. Do you want to leave this moment, or do you just want to copy this black and white? We don't know if Picasso thought about it when he saw this photo. We only know that he decided to write his guernica, a masterpiece that has a long-term direct connection with the current political world but has no clue. Oh, he knows it will be a masterpiece, as long as he can finish it.
Simon Schama's evaluation of guernica is that Picasso once again subverted the modernist art that he redefined not long ago. This time, Picasso no longer deliberately rejected history, but also extended a strong arm and re-supported the heavy tradition with the brush in his hand. He can't forget the outstanding treasures in Prado Art Museum, which suffered extinction in the war. He can't forget Goya, the greatest painter in his motherland, his own pioneer and treasurer. They are all saying: Look, this is war. Isn't it? Picasso is still a master of cubism, but this time, in guernica, he saved the potential collapse of cubism. He reinjected the integrity of life into them, injecting his own songs of love and hate, hatred and self-blame, persistence, despair and redemption.
Like all great artists, Picasso cleverly hid himself in guernica and explored himself fearlessly. Picasso never let go of all the images of lovers, mistresses, children, mothers, guernica, nature, blood, injured horses, mad cows, people holding candles and their feelings. He opened his eyes wide and went to his most painful place, drawing them one by one and shaping them bit by bit. He experienced the war so deeply only because he experienced human nature so deeply in himself and in his whole body and mind. Complete, perfect and eternal human nature is also extremely fragile. Shama's comments on Picasso's creative process left a deep impression on me. He called Picasso's insignificance in the early days when he wrote guernica.
Hope, with the progress and deepening of creation, collapses into great despair and sorrow. This is a deep question? Is that a painful discovery of people's own fragility and vulnerability? Is that a feeling of regret or helplessness? This is really a masterpiece. The BBC's description of guernica ends with a fallen soldier with flowers on his wound, and the camera moves to his open palm with a tattoo of redemption written inside. (This tattoo also appeared in Goya's "Shooting on May 3rd", which is small but clear. ) The most striking thing in the whole picture is the cold artificial light bulb eyes above guernica. On its right, a strong arm holds a candle and sticks out from nothingness like boxing. Who will win? For Picasso, this may not be an open answer. Good and evil, one side will win, but we can't ignore either side.
? In the face of war, artists awakened our conscience and anxiety. Don't forget the cold syndrome of this era: those people pretended not to see anything, packed their clothes, and walked peacefully through these twenty feet to another art garden. Picasso tore open scar tissue, making us bleed and insomnia. If he gives an order, he will read the laws of human nature in your ear word by word, if you are still willing to abide by them. This Picasso is not the original Picasso. Pablo Picasso is now an artist in transition. )?
I just hope this movie doesn't become a new lullaby. People turn off the TV, just like they close their eyes and watch Picasso's guernica.
The Power of Art: Van Gogh's Thoughts on Art II
I finally finished watching this episode of BBC's The Power of Art, and the last episode was about Roscoe in new york. So far, I have experienced the process from Renaissance to post-modern art, and I really want to concentrate on writing down some feelings. First of all, I really think that every artist's life is more or less paranoid, either addicted to some kind of expression or thinking too original. Roscoe persistently exposed the pallor of human nature under capitalism, and Turner later exposed the trauma in British history, as did Rembrandt, who later insulted the Dutch for forgetting their ancestors in luxury. And their contribution to art history is precisely the genre of these pioneers; One more thing is what is it? A born master? ; Finally, what is the passion that supports these people's creation? Sometimes; One more thing, Roscoe's episode ended with the power of art; When I was having dinner with my friend some time ago, she said I was a? Free access; In a word, I think what this DVD has taught ordinary people; SimonSchama (Simon? Martha is a strange person; Well, pay it back and lend it out-because I can't help being fascinated by it; I finished reading Macro today.
Some avant-garde This is so contradictory and weird that it will inevitably lead to the indifference and incomprehension of the public. They will definitely want it, but their self-confidence or persistence is superior. The example they set for future generations is to express, express and re-express, so that their voices can walk in the blow and loneliness. Therefore, I think it is worthwhile for these people to become masters, but it may not be enough to repay their efforts. Recently, I have seen at least two people express the same idea, and the conclusions are strikingly similar: a master's achievement is inevitable and accidental, but a person who focuses on doing his job well has already succeeded. Expression is often just a natural mission for them, and it is the most daily thing. But most people still have some similarities, such as moving against the trend of the times, which makes it easy to stand out.
One more thing is what is it? A born master? . Not to mention that everyone has talent, I just think that a person's childhood and life are really something that can't be got rid of and must be shown in his works. The most typical one is Van Gogh, a painter who was loved to death. In fact, I think it is a reasonable result how unfortunate he was later. I have been strict and sensitive since I was a child. What works? A little naive? Not only he, but also Andersen, who has the same growing experience, is really unique. Both of them are miserable and desperate in their later years, like the result of extremes meet. After the dream is completely shattered, it can't fill the empty loss, but they are still expressing. Roscoe was afraid of Cossacks when he was a child. When he arrived in America, he still felt rejected as a Jew, so he turned to thinking about human nature and primitive feelings.
Finally, what is the passion that supports these people's creation? Sometimes it even appears in an abnormal form. At first, both Renaissance painters were very violent, and Picasso seriously ignored ethics. Moreover, it seems that the ancestors also fought for one or two customers and competed for favor. Later, the painter's struggle seems to be more and more internalized and personalized, so there is such a thing as self-slaughter. This is in line with the trend of modernism and postmodernism, Kafka and so on. Or someone staged a personality tragedy and got involved in political fanaticism. David who painted death of marat and the people struggled between right and wrong.
One more thing, Roscoe said at the end of the episode, the power of art lies in that it also discusses the process from birth to death and eternity. So, doesn't art mean something to believe in? Although it is not a religion, it is also closely related to religion. This year's literary appreciation and criticism, the teacher said that we all lack faith, I wonder if people who do art are different? But no matter how persistent you are, you have to suffer.
When I was having dinner with my friend some time ago, she said I was a? Can you get in and out? People, and when it comes to some people I know, they are different from me. This matter has been bothering me for a long time. Fortunately, at least I won't experience those bloody lives. The bad news is, maybe Expressed passion? This thing still feels that you should not spoil me too much and let me live a normal life with peace of mind. By the way, it's always a little risky to stick to your guns, right? In our words, risk is directly proportional to income, which may be the ratio of concave function. If nothing else, Mr. V, who knows CUHK, is a typical example. He always surprises me, as if he always lives in a storm, and his feelings are very strong and sincere. If it is on me, first of all, I will feel bad for my health. I mean, suddenly excited and suddenly depressed. But he never cared, which more or less confirmed the teacher's words at that time. Writers don't need reason, otherwise where do they get their inspiration? Speaking of the teacher himself, he said that I like philosophy, and I really got a doctorate in philosophy. Later, I finally got up the courage to chat with him, and the conversation was too high. When I got back, I found that he was a doctor of literary theory, but it was not obvious at all. Now I feel incredible. The teacher is also an ordinary person and a rational person.
In a word, I think this DVD has taught ordinary people something. Persistence and balance are important lessons for me.
The Power of Art: Van Gogh's Thoughts on Chapter Three
Even in the BBC's art documentary, the power of this eight-episode art is absolutely outstanding. Different from many similar films, this series adopts the way of real life interpretation and live restoration, with mature audio-visual language and Simon Schama's personalized and appealing narrative. Every episode is super shocking, and it is really a wonderful documentary about famous works, which should not be missed. At the beginning of each episode, the narrator begins with a work and asks a question. Then, after a short but extremely colorful opening, the answer slowly emerged from the artist's life and the agitation of his spirit. What's more, according to the differences in specific content, each episode adopts different audio-visual styles and structural methods, which is difficult for producers to do.
Content, as the name implies, The power of art? More precisely, it is the impact and shock of art, so there are no elegant and harmonious Renaissance masters, no quiet and comfortable traditional landscape painters, and 8 people in 8 episodes are all crazy people with boiling blood. When they were alive, they were famous or not very popular with the world, but their best works had nothing to do with the mood used for ornament and decoration, but shocked the world.
Obviously, the first episode will never be Karachi at the same time, but it is definitely Caravaggio, a violent and arrogant murderer, a demon who first made the image of the bottom characters appear in classic paintings, telling the story of demons and angels floating in Caravaggio's heart. A lasting struggle, sinners and redemption are not magnificent master paintings in the church, but full of real fear and blood.
Then there is Rembrandt, the recorder of Dutch secular glory in the17th century, but what makes him really great is not the false beautiful record, but the real ugliness. Corresponding to commercial times, the pace of this episode is relatively light, but the gloom at the bottom remains as usual.
The third episode is bernini, the main designer of Marble Rome. In the baroque era, people competed with each other to invite pets, destroyed each other (mainly him and Polomini), envied each other and were extravagant with each other. The statue of bernini is full, warm and full of passion. At the beginning of this episode, the narrator talks about a French tourist. If this is sacred love, I know it too well. ?
Turner's fourth episode will obviously not focus on this prestigious traditional landscape painter, who studied under Claude? Lorraine described the quiet and beautiful English pastoral scenery. The whole story is about another lathe worker, who comes from the bottom, is troubled and shocked, but has an artist's passion and conscience.
The fifth episode of "David" (this David is a French surname, which is translated into David in many places, which is inaccurate) is probably the most powerful, because the background is the bloody years of the French Revolution, and the French pretend to be reborn Romans, and the wind and rain are raging. All this is reflected in David's paintings, from the Roman theme to the real revolution, and then to the flying Napoleon. There will be a little ideological difference here. Of course, domestic textbooks describe him as the poet laureate of the progressive revolution. As a matter of fact, he inevitably has have it both ways's side, a red-topped painter, who praised and criticized the revolution. There is a line in the film. (death of marat) The back can be mottled walls or endless nothingness. ?
Van Gogh's collection is mainly divided into two scenes because of letters from home. One is Van Gogh talking to himself in a dark and cramped cabin, and the other is a wide-angle shot of golden Yuan Ye and dazzling sunshine, just like Van Gogh's fleeting tragic life and immortal works that inspire future generations. The movie said that Van Gogh had. Art has replaced religion. ?
Picasso didn't arrange anyone to play him. Instead, he made a black-and-white documentary about the explosion scene. The main line of this episode is how a modernist master who claims to smash all traditional standards regains the shocking power of art in a special era. Modernist art is with Picasso,
At least I overcame my formal playfulness and narcissism.
The last episode is about Roscoe, a rebel who tries to bring back shocking experience and mythical significance to the increasingly numb daily life in the consumption era. His paintings look a bit like mondriaan's tough guy's version to me, but the movie tells me that he is wrong. He is not a mystic like mondriaan at all. The Russian-American painter experienced the massacre of Jews by Cossack and Hitler, and then faced with the unrestrained cultural industry and consumption pleasure, Andy? Warhol and rock music, in his view, this is tantamount to another massacre. He said that in the past, art had no money, but people could pursue their ideals without scruple. Now, everything has become a regular commodity. Is there any so-called artistic power? So he flatly refused to pay the equivalent of $2.5 million today, and he didn't want to paint for new york Four Seasons Restaurant. It is difficult to introduce Roscoe's strong color block to people. We are more familiar with and accustomed to pop art and poster art that we have long neglected. The question raised at the beginning of this episode is, what kind of power does art have and can it change us and the world? The final answer is, impossible!
The Power of Art: Van Gogh's Thoughts on Chapter Four
The winter vacation is coming, and I have prepared some documentaries for myself. I plan to watch a little every day. I just watched it and learned a lot. However, considering that I didn't take notes on excellent documentaries such as "The God of Sushi" and "The Artist is Present" before, the deepest feeling of watching something is often within an hour or two after reading it, so I decided not to be lazy and write about my feelings.
Like most people, Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters. The meaning of this sentence is that the passion, emotion and strength expressed in his works are obvious, not obscure, and the obvious content expressed in his works is accepted and recognized by people, so it is not surprising that everyone likes Van Gogh.
I have known Van Gogh since I was very young, starting with Sunflowers. In fact, I prefer his Starry Sky, Crow in the Rye and Cafe, and Starry Sky should also be his most famous painting, which has been printed the most in various products, but it seems that many people's initial understanding of Van Gogh still stays in Sunflower, which is very good.
His works are bright in color, full of vitality, vigor and tension, beating with happy or sad colors, and everything is so strong and bright. When I first saw Cafe (forgive me for not knowing the full name), I was sucked in by the extremely depressed and uncomfortable atmosphere brought by the whole painting, and I couldn't get out for a long time. Only then did I realize how expressive Van Gogh was as a painter and how powerful his appeal was.
There is a reason for being strong, or rather, there is a price for being strong.
His price is that others regard art as another world to comfort their hearts and go to that world to purify and wash their hearts when they are sad and happy, but as the days go by, he completely integrates his life into this art world. At the height of his mental illness, his artistic achievement reached its peak. While looking forward to his recovery, he is also worried that he may never reach the art brought by illness.
Perhaps his mental illness is the pain caused by his failure to recognize reality and art, the kind of epilepsy that can't restrain the pain. He has only a younger brother to rely on, and he can't even support himself. He is unmarried, and the almost idealized artistic realm of saying that his works are his own children (in my own opinion) is morbid and incomprehensible in the real world. In fact, he has indeed surpassed the mental state that an artist should have, and some of them have gone off.
What I once regretted most was that he had such a great work, but he was not understood and could not be sold. When he died, his previous works became the treasures of the world. If he can be understood by the world earlier, then maybe his fate will be completely rewritten. This childish idea was quickly broken by me now:
First, we may be able to understand his works, but even after so many years, we still can't understand Van Gogh in such an open era. Van Gogh should not exist as a mortal. He was born for art, and his life is to express art. In this era, he will still be sent to the hospital. Indeed, look at the people around us who are in disorder: crazy? Ladies and gentlemen, we all know that they are smart, but we just don't want to forgive them. We should remain stable and calm.
Second: Van Gogh needs no regrets. When he was most ill, it was no longer a question whether the works of art could be understood or sold. At this time, painting is his greatest medicine, his only export and his paradise. If an art can be a secret recipe to save a person, what is the importance of other treasures in the world? Van Gogh may be ill, and his illness just makes him not bound by money. Although he is so eager to be understood, he is not confused and inferior because he is not understood. He felt that after his death, his works would prove to be unique.
I can only understand his paintings. I'm also afraid to have someone as crazy as him around me. However, I can feel more and more that his ideas are similar to mine at some point, which is helpful to me.
I love art and writing. In the most painful period of my life, it is precisely the period when I am most passionate and motivated to write and draw. I think I am the best. In the happy and comfortable period, when I first started writing, I often felt bored, didn't know what to say, felt unnecessary, or felt uncomfortable when I was writing. This is a bit like? Born in sorrow, died in happiness? It is also very similar to Van Gogh's mental state all his life.
Maybe the art world should be separated from the real world. The happiness of art and the happiness of mortal life can only learn from each other, assist each other and draw from materials, but they can never have both, at least when they finish their works of art and think.
I just want to stick to the road of art and live a good life.
However, whether to give up art for life or make a mess of life for art, or to turn life into art and make art my expected career and life, time will give me the answer.
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