When it comes to modern Chinese painting, if only one person is named as the representative, I think people will invariably think of one person, that is Qi Baishi. Once upon a time, the occurrence and development of China art market in recent ten years were almost dominated by Qi Baishi's works. From the auction of Qi Baishi's works collected by Guardian Yang Yongde to the sky-high price of/kloc-0.6 million yuan in 2003, Qi Baishi's works are like a balance, measuring and guiding the market trend of modern painting in China, and flaunting the interest and orientation of collectors and investors who have never left this generalist who integrates calligraphy, seal cutting, painting and poetry. Because he is Qi Baishi, only Qi Baishi will have such a great appeal, and this great appeal is based on the greatness of Baishi's artistic creation. This greatness is from "simplicity" to "simplicity" and from "clumsiness" to "massiness", especially his landscape paintings, which are surprisingly novel, impermanent and legal in composition, seemingly plain, magnificent, pure and beautiful in style. Between similarity and dissimilarity, whether light or heavy, or explicit or implicit, the essence of mountains and waters is displayed. In the process of opening and closing, we see delicate, simple kindness and optimistic firmness. In the landscape paintings of the old man Baishi, every stroke seems to contain the earthy flavor of his hometown, and every line seems to condense the dew of nature, which is fresh, colorful, profound and popular. The calligraphy of the old man Baishi is rare among modern painters in China, so good that I dare not compliment the calligraphy of painters after Baishi. The old man Baishi specialized in Yan Long Monument, then studied Zheng Wen Monument, and then studied He, Jin Nong and Tianfa Magical Monument. He traveled five times. His high achievement in painting is inseparable from his high level of calligraphy. Throughout the ages, there is not a great painter who is not a great calligrapher. Dong Qichang, Badashanren and Qi Baishi are all such figures. His writing is bold and vigorous, handsome and steep, but not clumsy. He is good at making a long front, and can make full use of the characteristics of the pen front that absorbs more ink and washes. Because of his good calligraphy skills, there are almost no lines in Baishi's works that can't stand scrutiny. His line quality is as follows: cotton, stiff. "Needles are wrapped in cotton", which is soft in the middle and soft in the middle. Moist and full. It is not stagnant or slippery, but it will leave no trace between pen and ink. Male and strong. His calligraphy can keep pen and ink at all turning points, especially the transition of his calligraphy lines, as if he could cut the paper into sand cones. His flying white is also very personal, especially his "writing", although he is used to it. As for Qi Baishi's contribution to modern painting in China, his artistic achievements have been recognized by experts, painters, collectors and even ordinary people in the field of art history for half a century. Qi Baishi is like a peak and a ruler. His painting is the absolute embodiment of the interest of Chinese painting, and it is also the peak of China literati painting in modern times. After entering the market, his paintings are the barometer and vane of China art market.

Vincent? William? van gogh

I can't forget that I just got into painting in junior high school. Listening to the teacher talking about Van Gogh, I saw his sunflower in the art book. I can't say how good his paintings are, but his paintings just fascinate me. I watched it again and again. Maybe his enthusiasm infected me. I wish I were a sunflower, always facing the sun.

Later, I gradually got to know Van Gogh better. He is kind and loves life, but he suffers setbacks and hardships in life. He devoted himself to art and made bold innovations. On the basis of extensively studying the previous painters Rembrandt and others, he absorbed the experience of impressionist painters in color, and was influenced by oriental art, especially Japanese prints, forming his own unique artistic style and creating many works full of passion for life and humanitarian spirit. Most of his masterpieces such as Sunflower, Starry Night and Crow in the Rye were completed in the last six years of his life, showing his anguish, sadness, sympathy and hope. Through these works, I can see a more authentic Van Gogh and know more about the painter's spirit and thoughts.

Vincent. William? Van Gogh was born into a Protestant family in Zandet, the Netherlands. Before the age of 24, he worked as a clerk in Gupir painting shops in The Hague, London and Paris, and later became a missionary. He preached in the Borina mining area in southwest Belgium, and was dismissed for sympathizing with and supporting the demands of poor miners. After living a life of extreme disappointment and poverty, he decided to liberate himself in the pursuit of art. After 1880, he studied everywhere, asked the Royal Belgian Academy of Fine Arts for advice, and asked the Dutch landscape painter Anton? Muff studied painting, but finally decided to teach himself. Before 1886, his works were still in the exploratory stage, such as The Potato Eater and The Textile Worker. 1886, Van Gogh came to Paris with his younger brother, who was a senior employee of Gupier's painting shop. He got to know Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, pissarro, Seurat and Cezanne, and attended a gathering of impressionist painters, who was inspired and edified in color. 1February, 888, he and Gauguin went to arles in the south of France to sketch and paint for a year. This is the most important period for the formation of his artistic style. The towns, fields, flowers, rivers, farmhouses and churches in the strong sunshine in the south made him cry over and over again: "brighter, brighter!" " However, due to their disagreement, Gauguin left and Van Gogh's spirit began to split gradually. Van Gogh was admitted to the hospital again and again after he became ill on February 23rd, 1888, 18. 1In May, 889, he was sent to St. Remy's mental hospital, one kilometer away from Ayr, and became a complete mental patient. But at this moment, a miracle appeared. Van Gogh's paintings actually advanced by leaps and bounds, and his style quickly formed. However, the price of this miracle is the self-immolation of a soul. 1890, after a long-term hospitalization in the de Mosor mental hospital in Saint-Remy, Van Gogh returned to Paris and lived in Orwell-Watts, where he received special treatment from Dr. Gasser and diligently created his paintings, including Dr. Gasser's Xiaoxiang and Orwell's Church. However, 1890, 10/October 27th, Van Gogh shot himself in the wheat field after an argument with Dr. Gasser.

Van Gogh left a wealth of works in his life, and it was not until his death that he was gradually recognized by people. In these works, the author pursues the expression of self-spirit, and all forms jump and twist under the control of fierce spirit. This kind of art had a great influence on expressionism in the 20th century, especially the painters Su Ding and Expressionism, who drew many important principles from Van Gogh's works. He is the most influential painter in the Netherlands after Rembrandt. However, when he was still alive, a * * * only sold 1 painting.

When Van Gogh's classic works are mentioned, the sunflower is often the first thing people think of. It was created by Van Gogh in sunny southern France and is now in the National Gallery of London. On the screen, it seems that the golden yellow flowing in the author's heart is wantonly rendered, and the simple ceramic vase, rough tablecloth and the background interwoven with layers of sunshine are glowing on the tablecloth; Nine vibrant sunflowers are in full bloom, their discs are not completely exposed, even with delicate green, while other sunflowers are old, mature and even dying, with incomplete petals and stiff and twisted branches. This seems to imply some kind of fate. Although sunflowers are bathed in strong sunshine, they can't escape the old and decadent ending. It seems that everything is so short that nothing in the world can shine forever like the sun. Shortness seems to be the fate of all things. However, Van Gogh imposed the golden color of sunlight on all background objects, such as air, vases and tablecloths. When he carefully completes the paint transfer from the palette to the canvas, he should see that the whole studio has been illuminated by the dazzling gold, including his face, his serious expression and his spiritual world. In Van Gogh's works, the flaming sunflower is not only a plant, but a life with primitive impulse and enthusiasm. They show the painter's eager and tenacious pursuit of life more wildly, and vent the painter's full experience and permanent excitement about life.

Another masterpiece of Van Gogh, Starry Night, was created in June 1890 and is now in the new york Museum of Modern Art. Starry night presents two line styles, one is to bend long lines and the other is to break short lines. The interactive use of the two makes the picture present a dazzling fantasy scene. This is obviously divorced from reality, purely for Van Gogh's own imagination. In composition, the turbulent sky contrasts with the calm village. Cypress is visually in balance with the horizontal mountains and sky. Dark cypress trees dance like witches, and rotating nebulae, rotating stars and even new moons are spinning rapidly. That terrible flow pattern seems to be the fate of flow, and everything is in turmoil. The spire of the church was so desperate that it was almost submerged by the vortex of the night sky. Van Gogh's world was actually so fragile and helpless that he fell into an unavoidable whirlpool. The color of the whole painting is blue-green, and the artist uses a sense of movement to express nebulae and trees, which flow continuously and rapidly like waves; In his works, nebulae and trees are like a burning fireball, working hard and expressive, leaving a deep impression on people.

In a letter to his brother Dior, Van Gogh wrote, "Staring at the bright starry sky, I can't help thinking ... I can't help asking myself, why can't the twinkling bright spots in the night sky be as easy to reach as the black signs on the French map? We only need to get on the train to reach Seruschen or Rouen, but we have to go through a death journey to reach the stars. " . The hovering stars in Van Gogh's works may be just novel and creative scenery for us, but they are actually undercurrents in the author's mind and an interpretation of death. Perhaps for Van Gogh, death is not a disaster, but a tunnel to heaven and a kind of spiritual liberation.

Van Gogh's last oil painting is "A Crow in the Rye", which is the last vivid and terrible portrayal of his life, and it is also a suicide note he left to the world with a harsh image. It was a disturbing picture: a wheat field cut in half by three forks, the leftmost road almost showed a state of boundary, the middle road extended in an imaginative S-shape to the distance, the end of the road was full of confusion and gloom, the respectful green grass was next to the road, and the other road suddenly shifted to the right and disappeared. It's like a man with his arms up, lying flat, with a bumper wheat field on his shoulder. Exciting and comforting gold, like a sunny sanctuary, ignites a person's inner joy. At this time, however, the sky was disturbed by dark clouds. To be precise, it was a group of flying shadows. That's a flock of crows. The pure black crows and fog in the distant sky seem to be a witch's black coat, which blocks less and less sunshine and the light of wheat fields. It is an ambivalent emotion and a vague fear in the deep heart. This is the world in which Van Gogh lived. The world in his eyes is divided into two colors, one is exciting golden yellow, which belongs to the sunshine color of his persistent spirit, and the other is the shadow and disappointment that scares him. He lost his last confidence in the world, so his mood was cut and disintegrated, a wheat field fell and a piece of sunshine was fragmented.

Van Gogh painted with his own life as a bet, and wrote the last chapter of his life with his soul and blood like a thorn bird. Van Gogh's "sadness and extreme loneliness" is vividly displayed in this unique painting, and his ending seems to have been doomed long ago. So in Orville, in the brilliant summer of July, he pulled the trigger on his chest. At the moment of falling, his soul returned to the eternal golden land, and the crazy genius painter finally got free.

I want to pay tribute to my favorite artist in my soul. Van Gogh had a rough life, especially in the last few years of his life, and his spiritual world was completely broken. Like the sea, storms come and go, and there is not much stable land. However, in contrast, it is his love for art. Facing the anxiety of an uncontrollable disease, he said, "It is doubtful whether painting is beautiful or useful. But what should we do? Some people still love nature and life even if they are insane, because he is a painter! " "Facing a disease that ruined me and scared me. My faith will not waver! " However, it is such a "madman" who has paranoid beliefs about painting. He used his short life to describe his love and pursuit of life, told his passion and ideal, and added eternal color to our life.