The branches of apricot trees have blossomed.

Artist: Vincent Willem van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1July 29, 890)

Creation time: 1890

Material: canvas oil painting 73.3cm x 92.4cm

Venue: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

From1May 8, 889 to1May 6, 890, Van Gogh created a lot of works during his one-year stay in St. Remy's sanatorium. His creative energy was like a volcanic eruption, and then he went into an unusually quiet self-dormancy. During this year, he created more than 150 works, including several episodes of illness, which lasted for two weeks to a month.

On June 365438+1October 3 1, his nephew was born, and his parents named him Vincent Willem van Gogh in memory of his godfather, Uncle Vincent. After learning that little Vincent was born, it coincided with the arrival of early spring, and Van Gogh felt the joy of life and the power of recovery. So he created this blooming apricot flower as a baptism gift for his newborn nephew.

In southern France, apricot flowers usually bloom in early spring and February, and they are trees that bloom very early, so in Van Gogh's eyes, apricot flowers are a symbol of life. The picture shows the forked part of an apricot tree. A large area of calm blue and pure white petals dance with interest, full of vitality, full of purity and beauty of life. This painting was painted in the last year of Van Gogh's life. He told his younger brother that this is his best and most attentive work so far. When painting, he felt very calm and wrote without hesitation. At this moment, Van Gogh seems to have forgotten his pain and suffering. Facing the blooming apricot flowers, he has a sacred blessing for his new life. This work has no twitching and rotating strokes in the past, only a quiet, very oriental meaning, so prosperous and gorgeous, so quiet and neat, bringing people into an instant of eternity.

Van Gogh painted many flowering trees. Flowering trees are a very special theme for Van Gogh-they represent awakening and hope. He once wrote in his letter: "I am as busy as a bee, because every tree is blooming." I want to draw a garden in Provence (where Van Gogh was then), which is full of amazing happiness. "

Van Gogh's painting "Blossoming Apricot Flowers" embodies his painting characteristics-simplified form, plain color, and the object of painting is outlined from the background by black lines without complicated and redundant details.

At the same time, the composition of the plane in this painting was also influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e painting at that time. Van Gogh collected hundreds of Japanese prints. Van Gogh once said that the composition and color of Japanese paintings gave him peace.

The flowers and trees in The Blossoming Apricot Flowers awaken Van Gogh from his depression and help him to enter a sober and happy state. Although he will be extremely tired after a very exciting time because of mental illness, this creation has made him very energetic.

Bruce Ross, an American poet, once said that Van Gogh instilled his values of life into his still life paintings, and he injected a kind of life and possibility into inanimate objects. Unfortunately, however, a few months after Van Gogh painted the last painting symbolizing life and hope, he committed suicide.

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