Five essays after reading Longing for Life (1)
Many people in our generation have heard that his name may come from the famous painting Sunflower in middle school textbooks. People say that he is a genius, and he has been perfected by the world for one hundred years. But I don't know that he is plain, with red hair and angular chin, which can be known from his self-portrait. He is not a gentleman, paranoid, rude, loud and annoying. He didn't go far to Wan Li to meet his first girlfriend Ursula. In order to pursue his cousin, he let the candle burn to the palm of his hand. He cut off his screaming right ear and gave it to a prostitute named Little Pigeon. He is never perfect, even crazy. Because of this, he got very little understanding in life and hardly got the love of others except his brother Theo.
It was not until he was nearly 30 years old that he decided to take painting as his lifelong career. Before that, he had explored life for a long time, and had successively engaged in painting dealers, teaching missionaries and other occupations, all of which ended in failure. His experience of helping those miners in Boli that day was particularly touching. In order to get closer to their inner world and understand their real suffering, he chose the same lifestyle as them, or even worse. At that time, he believed in the existence of God and wanted to save those refugees. But their lives are still the same. Finally, he realized that there was no God, only chaos-tragic, painful, cruel and inexplicable chaos. He fell into extreme despair, but he kept looking and was not disappointed. It can be seen that there is never a moment of inspiration in life, and the improvement of one's mind must be gradual. If you don't advance, you will retreat.
When he determined his ideal in life, he spent his whole life practicing it. Despite the support of his younger brother Theo, it seems that he can never solve the problem of food and clothing for painting and helping others. In fact, he can take a step back. The future is bright, and his family is good. Being an art dealer and inheriting the family business is the best choice in the eyes of ordinary people. Who doesn't want the prosperity and enjoyment of this reality? But his choice is no, and he will never return to the system. He just kept painting in pain, poverty and loneliness. In order to find the blazing sun in his heart, he went to Al. Once, he lived on only 23 cups of coffee and a loaf of bread on credit for four days in a row. Al's sun is poisonous, and he's not wearing a hat. He just wants it to burn all desires except painting. He painted forty-nine golden fields back and forth for a whole day. Finally, he had a fever and was sent to a mental hospital. For painting, you never know whether you are making history or wasting paint. But for Van Gogh, the most important thing is to be loyal to his ideals and stick to them consistently, not the quality of his works. He can live without his wife, family and children, he can live without love, friendship and health, he can live without a reliable and comfortable material life, and he can even live without God. However, he can't live without something greater than himself-creativity and talent. This is his life.
Van Gogh received little love in his life, but he had a compassionate heart and great love. That day in Boli, in order to help the miners, he turned himself into "black coal"; In The Hague, for a prostitute named Christine, he completely ignored his reputation and fell out with painters. In arles, he has been stretched to this point, but he is still excited to install his residence for the arrival of his friend Gauguin, even though his life is terrible. . . . . . . . He always pays attention to humanism, so do his paintings, which are basically miners, farmers and prostitutes. In his eyes, a beautifully dressed young woman, a woman forced into a prostitute by the hardships of life, is much more valuable. He only paints what he thinks is valuable to a few people who understand.
Five Essays after Reading Longing for Life (2)
Owen? Longing for Life edited by Si Tong is about the famous painter Vincent? The life of van Gogh. Once upon a time, I couldn't understand Van Gogh's paintings and thought his techniques were extremely poor and difficult to appreciate, but I was deeply impressed by those brilliant pictures. Later, I learned more knowledge and changed my once narrow cognition. Now, I look at his fluent brushstrokes: Lark in the Rye, Sunflower and Starry Night on the Rhone. High-purity oil painting pigments are short and enthusiastic, and rich and bright colors pierce my heart. I feel that his works are vivid, full of vitality and have a vision for the future. Otherwise, he wouldn't use a brush to make such beautiful and gorgeous oil painting pigments and build a wonderful color scheme. He also inherited the great tradition of portrait painting and was full of passionate love for people. But in the end, he could not integrate his world view with the objective world. There will never be a full moon in this world, and an extreme emotion is waiting for him to die. Crows in the wheat field make me feel scared and confused. Through the picture, I can almost feel the suffocating atmosphere and the gloomy and excited mood on the verge of collapse when he paints.
I quite agree with one thing: the quality of a work of art should be combined with the background and mentality of the creator when creating. I didn't mean to admire Van Gogh's paintings at length. I think his life and painting are inseparable. Even though Van Gogh gave up his previous life and decided to start painting at the age of 27, his love for painting has long been integrated into his bone marrow. Van Gogh loved life, worked hard and was compassionate. He gave up his steady job and went to the poorest place. He lives with the poor at the bottom, eager to be a good priest and spread the gospel. He would rather starve and freeze, die alone and use his living expenses to help those poor people, but the church never recognized him. When he lost himself, Van Gogh fell in love with sketch and found the belief of being an artist. He never studied painting systematically, and Mao Wei, the only one who took the initiative to learn from his teacher, broke up with him. His works were criticized by others and ridiculed by other artists. Experienced two failed loves at the same time, and was cruelly abandoned by the deeply loved woman. When Van Gogh returned to his hometown, he was not recognized by his family and laughed at by his neighbors. After his father died, he was completely cut off from his family and painted in a farmer's house.
I still remember that he drew "The Potato Eater" and "Prayer before Meal" from memory, which made me almost cry. Workers work hard for more than ten hours during the day, but there is almost no food when they eat. Even so, they will bow their heads and pray and thank God for giving them food. Many people in Van Gogh's works are under painful pressure, because they are poor, ill and look down on doctors, and retire without pension. While other painters are depicting the flashy pleasures of the middle class with gorgeous pigments, Van Gogh picked up charcoal to record the people at the bottom of this era.
At first, he was only a rough imitation of Impressionism. Later, in the process of learning painting, he found his own style and had a qualitative change. In Aercheng, Van Gogh's creative style developed from formation to maturity, but he also suffered from mental illness, which interfered with his nerves. Even cut off his right ear with a razor in an argument with others. Later, I went to an insane asylum, and my condition became more and more serious. He went out to write and was in a coma for several days. But it was also at that time that he sold the only painting in his life, but only a few dollars. Now, each of Van Gogh's major works is worth 20 million to 30 million dollars. But I believe that even if he is still alive, these astronomical figures will not touch his heart. He is indifferent to money. All he wants is to understand life and describe it.
Van Gogh was excited by the paintings he sold, and he still created with passion. However, he still lost the confidence to live because of illness. At the party in Paris, his solo exhibition reviewed his artistic course. Encouraged by his doctor friend, he painted the last masterpiece of his life. Deep in the wheat field, he shot himself in the abdomen. Van Gogh had a high artistic talent and a serious defect in his viability. He could not support himself and could not do several jobs. Many artists in history are in trouble for this reason. Van Gogh's younger brother Theo selflessly provided him with ten years' living expenses. Later, when Theo got married and had children, he had problems at work and was unable to support Van Gogh. This made Van Gogh panic. He is worried that he can't continue to create, and deeply regrets the burden of becoming a younger brother. This is an important reason for his suicide. At the same time, Van Gogh is also a sensitive and sentimental person, which is an advantage of his artistic creation and a serious psychological defect.
I still remember in the book, when Van Gogh was questioned by Auerbach after the company screwed up a big business, he expressed his anger and unswerving description of his ambition to customers who had no appreciation.
"How can we sell worthless things to get high profits, Mr. orbach? Why can only people who can afford it but have no real knowledge of art enter our shop? Is that because their money has made them insensitive? Those poor people who can really appreciate excellent art have no money to buy a printed matter to decorate their walls. What is the reason? " Orbach looked at him inexplicably. "What are you talking about, socialism?" He went home, picked up a book by Lennon on the table and went back to the marked page. "A person who is at peace with the world," he read, "can be honest and diligent. People living in the world should not only live happily, but also be honest, do great things for mankind, reach a lofty realm, and transcend the vulgar life that almost everyone is imprisoned. "
When we get a card, we have its heads and tails. This extraordinary sensitivity helped him discover the beauty of life, subtle and vivid emotions, and the pain of the weak had a sound and link, which triggered the feelings of compassion, but the psychological innocence, simplicity and fragile sadness made him unable to reach a settlement with the world. Many authors of online novels have described the failure of Du Jie, a true practitioner, because he was possessed by martial arts and even went to extinction on his own initiative. I want to look at his choice from this angle. I have great respect for Van Gogh and appreciate his works, but his values are obviously completely opposite to mine, which I very much disagree with. But this is also the charm of Van Gogh's art. His flame-like emotion burns at the tip of the pen, which can penetrate time and infect my heart.
The academic school in Van Gogh's era is still the mainstream art of society, and Impressionism, as a new painting school, has not been accepted by the mainstream society, let alone post-impressionism. Painters like Picasso and Dali were able to achieve fame and fortune before their death because their talents coincided with the current cognition of the times. As a pioneer of post-impressionism, Van Gogh was ahead of the times, and such a pioneering talent was doomed to be lonely. My praise for him is not only a few paintings, but also because of the independent thinking spirit of not drifting with the flow.
There are still many people around me who can't understand Van Gogh's works, which doesn't matter. But I hope it's not because of Van Gogh's greatness that you have to feel him. But because you can still feel the beauty he has passed through hundreds of years of time and space, Van Gogh is truly great!
Five Essays after Reading Longing for Life (3)
Vincent? Van Gogh, a painter who reminds me of his crazy and gorgeous sunflower, has never studied his paintings carefully and always felt sympathy for him as a talented and down-and-out artist. Today, I finally finished reading irving stone's Biography of Van Gogh. I met him from a new angle, changed my sympathetic attitude towards him, with respect and expectation. With tears in my eyes, I want to record something Tears are not because of his miserable life or poor ending, but because he is moved, an extraordinary vitality. Tears touched by an extraordinary love for life.
Vincent? Van Gogh was born into a prominent art family, which owned the best galleries in Europe and accumulated wealth by selling works of art, but ironically, his paintings were never recognized by the family in his lifetime. His father, a respected priest, should have been respected as a respected priest Van Gogh in the normal way, but his life was poor, he often went hungry because of poverty, and even the days when he had a high fever because of hunger occupied many days in his first half of life. He always looks like a tramp, with a messy beard, bloodshot eyes and rags, which is his deepest impression. His natural simplicity, kindness, love for life and sensitivity to beauty made him embark on a road of living for art.
He has been wandering all his life. He has no home, except for his brother Theo, who was rejected by his relatives. There is no source of income, only Theo, who loves his brother selflessly, sends him 50 francs a month at first, and 150 francs a month later. Theo has never been separated from his brother in his life. From this relationship. Six months after Van Gogh committed suicide, Theo immediately went to accompany his brother. Van Gogh wandered around for painting, whether in the gray Bozina at first or in Noonan, where he found the artistic direction, he was looked down upon everywhere. In the earthly life, he is not good at it, too simple, he doesn't follow the rules of life in the world, and he went to heaven on the road of art, but he has been suffering in hell on the way of life (from the perspective of our normal people). No matter what kind of suffering, he starved for more than ten days without a penny, had a fever, or painted all day and was regarded as crazy. In the end, the failure of artistic inspiration led to his self-destruction. Although he lives in the poorest world, he never feels pain. As long as he can draw, he can draw, and he is very happy. Finally, his inspiration failed because of schizophrenia, and then he shot himself. This is not depressing. On the contrary, he feels that the power of longing for life has always existed, and he just wants to integrate himself with nature.
In his works, what he always wants to express is his thoughts, his love for life and his worship of nature. The twinkling star "Starry Night" and the gorgeous sunflower "Sunflower" are probably some familiar paintings in textbooks and picture books. The rotating stars are shining with the power full of light, and the dazzling yellow sunflowers are the hands that reach out to the sky and yearn for life.
I don't know which law nature has created. It always takes time to distinguish between good and bad things in the world. Van Gogh's works were penniless when irving stone wrote his biography (1934), but now they are the treasures of human art, hanging in the highest hall of art as priceless treasures, just as Maya said in his first schizophrenia. He left his love for life and nature in the world and in the hearts of the world.
Vincent Van Gogh, who lived for 37 years and was only 10 years away from painting, created the most brilliant art in the world. He only sold one painting in his life.
I think, maybe he is the sunflower that desperately looks up at the sun and risks being burned by art, that's all. After reading it superficially, I wrote down my feelings to commemorate this soul born for art.
Five Essays after Reading Longing for Life (4)
It took more than a week, and finally I finished reading more than 500 pages of Desire for Life intermittently.
This personal biography of Van Gogh is as colorful as his paintings. I believe that in his real life, it is more exciting than novels. Maybe he didn't feel it.
Half of Van Gogh's success is attributed to Theo, who gave Van Gogh too much both spiritually and materially.
Van Gogh was a producer of * *, knowing that he was a farmer and a simple laborer. Love his land and everything around him.
Van Gogh never asked too much, just wanted to support himself through his own paintings.
He didn't see that the value of hundreds of millions of his works remained in the world after many years.
Like chasing on land in summer. I saw sunflowers, apricot trees in the orchard, coffee shops in the street, and a yellow hut. A cloud of smoke rose from the chimney above the house, and I saw the starry sky at night.
Five Essays after Reading Longing for Life (5)
Van Gogh received little love. He longed for people's love and care and the warmth of society. So he once pursued love, but he never got it. What he has done for love is undoubtedly crazy, but unfortunately no one dares to accept it.
He is omnipotent. He will feel love and give it at the same time. But he doesn't have a decent job, generous salary, gentle personality and polite manners like his brother. On the contrary, he is sensitive, irritable, short-tempered, extreme and neurotic. Therefore, he received little love in his life!
In his life, love has been frustrated repeatedly and his feelings are difficult. He only sold a red vineyard. He ended his life with a gun in pain, despair and loneliness, tragic and brilliant.