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Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh was also transliterated as Van Gogh, Van Gogh, Vincent and Vincent.

Brief introduction of each period

Early works1881.4-1883.438+02

This is Van Gogh's earliest oil painting. Including Eton period, The Hague period and Drenthe period. Van Gogh was almost 30 years old when he painted these paintings. These works were completed between 188 1- 1883. Previously, Van Gogh suffered a great blow in Borina Li mining area. He almost despaired of God, but finally found his life destination-painting in confusion and confusion. He began to copy many famous paintings and did a lot of sketching exercises. It can be said that Van Gogh was a talented painter who taught himself. He has been influenced by art since he was a child and has a high literary accomplishment, which makes him have a high artistic appreciation. Van Gogh liked Rembrandt and Miller. He used his brush to depict farmers, workers and people at the bottom of society. Although the deep and heavy style contrasts greatly with the later painting style, the temperament and spirit shown in the painting are eternal.

Nunan Nun1883.12-1885.438+01

1At the end of 883, Van Gogh returned to Newnan, the church where his father worked. During his two years in Newnan, Van Gogh worked hard to practice his sketching skills. After drawing a lot of sketches and practicing, he finished his first masterpiece (the so-called fame was the result of later generations' evaluation, when Van Gogh was just an unemployed youth)-the potato eater. This painting and many of his works in this period have been influenced by the Dutch realistic painting style, with deep pictures and strong local flavor. This also shows Van Gogh's strong peasant complex. It seems that he wants to be a farmer painter. On the one hand, he was influenced by Miller, a "spiritual mentor". More importantly, he yearned for rural life, respected simple farmers and praised honest labor.

[Note]:19th century French realistic artist Miller likes to describe farmers' life. Van Gogh's spiritual mentor influenced and copied many of his works.

Antwerp1885.11-1886.2.

At the end of October, Van Gogh decided to go to Antwerp, where he studied painting hard and indulged in it for three months. During this period, he learned about Rubens' paintings and came into contact with Japanese ukiyo-e paintings, which had a great influence on his later painting process. Van Gogh's works in this period continued the realistic style and deep brushwork in Newnan period, but he gradually made the colors of the canvas brighter and richer.

Paris 1886.3- 1888.2

1886 At the end of February, Van Gogh came to Paris, the "capital of art". The strong artistic atmosphere here excited Van Gogh, especially the impressionist paintings shocked him. Under the introduction of his younger brother Theo (who was a famous Parisian art dealer at that time and had a good relationship with impressionist painters), Van Gogh met many impressionist painters, such as Lautrec, Gauguin, Seurat, pissarro, etc ... After being influenced by impressionism, Van Gogh's painting style changed and the picture became brighter. He also absorbed some impressionist techniques in his creation, such as stippling. During this period, Van Gogh began to create a large number of self-portraits. Two years later, Van Gogh was tired of city life in Paris. He is not satisfied with the impressionist expression and thought, but his unique personality tells us that Van Gogh's paintings do not belong to any genre. So Van Gogh came to the south of France with hope, and the sunny town of Al ushered in his most brilliant creative period.

Arles 1888.2- 1889.5

1888 In February, Van Gogh went to arles, a small town in the south of France, and soon fell in love with it. The fierce sunshine and harsh wheat fields made him "crazy". Creation has entered a peak. Although influenced by French impressionism and Japanese ukiyo-e painting. However, his works have become very individual, which stems from his unique perspective and sensitive personality. He loves nature and life; He is not satisfied with just "imitating the external image of things" rationally, but "expressing the artist's subjective opinions and emotions with the help of painting, so that his works have personality and unique style" (Van Gogh's original words are quoted in quotation marks). So Van Gogh was a master of painting with his mind. Van Gogh rented a "yellow house" near the town square and wanted to build a "painter's home". Later Gauguin came to live with him. Unfortunately, long-term overwork and the scorching sun made Van Gogh insane. He quarreled with Gauguin day and night, and then the famous "ear-cutting incident" happened. Under the protest of arles residents, Van Gogh was forced to leave and voluntarily went to St. Paul's mental hospital in St. Remy, not far from arles for treatment. Van Gogh created many works in arles, but he still couldn't sell them to support himself. Sunflower, Harvest Scene, Night Cafe-Outdoor and Night Cafe-Indoor are all representative works of this period.

Saint remy 1889.5- 1890.5

1On May 8, 889, Van Gogh voluntarily came to Saint Remy, 25 kilometers away from Al. At St. Paul's mental hospital. At this time, Van Gogh had fallen into fear of mental illness and confusion about the future. He gets sick every few months, but then he is sober and often paints outdoors. Surprisingly, Van Gogh was not decadent under such circumstances, but painted more mature, bolder and more shocking works. Many works in this period show strong emotion and "visual impact", and the rotating lines are rough and powerful, which makes people feel the painter's complex and strong feelings and expression impulse. Representative works include: starry night and cypress. It is worth mentioning that it was at this time that critics began to comment on Van Gogh and sold his only oil painting.

oise 1890.5- 1890.7

1On May 7th, 890, Van Gogh came to Paris and met Theo, his wife and his newborn nephew Vincent (the same name as Van Gogh). On the recommendation of Theo, he went to Orville, a small town not far from Paris, where he was treated by Dr. Gachet and continued to write. Van Gogh got along well with the local people, and his condition seemed to improve, but on the afternoon of July 27th, he shot himself while he was out painting. At dawn on the 29th, Van Gogh died beside Theo. He is only 37 years old. There has been a debate about the cause of Van Gogh's suicide. Personally, I think Van Gogh's suicide was not just due to mental problems. Works such as The Crow in the Rye must have been painted by the painter in a very sober state, but these paintings suggest that Van Gogh's death is obvious. Van Gogh's sudden suicide on the eve of fame may be a mystery. But please remember his last words: "Sorrow will last forever ..."

189 1 year 65438+1October 25th, Theo died half a year after Van Gogh's death.

19 14, Theo's body was buried next to Orville Van Gogh's grave. Two good brothers will always be together. ...

Vincent. Van Gogh (1853 ~ 1890) was born in Grozondale, South brabant Province, and died in Anwar-sur-Vaz. Speaking of it, the day when he became a painter was 1885 65438+ February. At that time, he began a productive and short artistic career, because it took him only five years to complete a great career. At that time, if he hadn't suddenly appeared, we would undoubtedly remember him today as a great painter who expressed labor and poverty and the hardships of workers and peasants, and the first person of Dutch expressionism. His paintings are one of the most valuable things in the world today, but in his life, they have been hit by neglect and poverty. He can speak four languages and read widely, but he lives and works like a farmer. In madness, he cut off his right ear and gave it to a prostitute; His paintings are full of charming colors and lines, a kind of beauty that is difficult to imitate; Finally, he shot himself and took his own life. He is Van Gogh. An unforgettable and passionate painter! I hope you can learn more about Van Gogh while enjoying his paintings.

Van Gogh, His People and His Paintings

1853, Van Gogh was born in a Protestant family in the Netherlands. As a teenager, he worked as an art dealer in London, Paris and The Hague, and later as a missionary among Belgian miners.

188 1 year or so, he began to paint. 1886, he went to Paris to defect to his younger brother, and came into contact with impressionist works for the first time. He was also influenced by famous painters Rubens, Japanese prints and Gauguin.

From 65438 to 0888, Van Gogh began to express strong feelings with colors. He had a brief contact with Gauguin, and later he lost his courage and was sent to a mental hospital. After many emotional breakdowns, Van Gogh committed suicide in Orville on 1890. He had a great influence on Fauvism and German Expressionism.

Van Gogh was sensitive, irritable and intelligent all his life, and rarely succeeded in many things before his death. His personal life is unfortunate and hard, but he always has love, friendship and passion for art to others. When he preached in Belgium, he witnessed the hard life of the poor and decided to help those coal miners with the greatest enthusiasm. He volunteered to take in those miners who were seriously injured and dying, hoping to help the weak fight with soothing words and the spirit of self-sacrifice. However, only six months later, he was fired because he was too enthusiastic about his work.

In Van Gogh's short life of 37 years, he devoted the most important period of his life to art. His early paintings loved earthy tones painted by the Netherlands, but his passion for nature made him abandon the gloom and silence of the Dutch painting school, and quickly broke away from the impressionism-the impressionism's pursuit of instant truth from the outside world, which was far from his mental state full of subjective consciousness. He grasps the object not through lines but through the environment; He changed the reality again to achieve the real truth, which contributed to the birth of expressionism.

La Oreja De Van Gogh

Van Gogh once cut off his ear with a blade when he was about to have a nervous breakdown. Is he trying to use this move to wake himself up and stop the growing madness in his heart?

Or is this a crazy move in itself? I remember he had a self-portrait, depicting his ear wound wrapped in gauze-there was no pain in his eyes, only fear, which seemed to reflect the shadow of the storm that had just disappeared. If I were allowed to give this painting another name, I would name it My Wounded Soldiers. On his own battlefield, Van Gogh hurt himself and bandaged himself. -And a self-portrait as a souvenir.

Is it a mistake or a long-planned one? He aimed the edge of hatred at himself and an innocent ear-maybe at that moment, he reached a settlement with the world, but he hated himself twice as much as the ugly and deformed man in the mirror. As a result, his gesture was like a runaway train running off the track. With a painful pleasure or euphoria, that bloody ear became its own victim. Could it be that in Van Gogh's mind, ears have been a mass of fat in this life-only hearing the noise of the world, but turning a deaf ear to the inner madness? Or is he too afraid to listen to his moans day and night-it is even more harsh and unforgettable than the lightning outside? Otherwise, his blade will not randomly choose the object to vent-even if it is aimed at a trivial ear, it has a purpose. In the initial contact between the iron flowing in the ice and the hot body, Van Gogh was full of desire to destroy himself and the whole world, and he had to break something to get a balance. This is terrible:

Psychological madness has evolved into a physical reaction, even manifested as a tendency to bloodthirsty. In a strange scream, Van Gogh himself gained a dual identity: both the executioner and the victim. The balance of reason is tilted: he is more cruel to himself than merciful to himself. The first drop of blood means his first crime against himself.

For van Gogh's ear, the sound of sea water is also blood and bright red. He seems to be drowned by the blood of the world and the dusk of the sea. The ear is the sunset on his shoulder, which has suffered a heavy blow. In the novel of female writer Chen Ran, there is such a sentence: "I don't love this strange ear, I only love this strange ear that pursues death and burning, and I am willing to be the widow of this ear forever." The ear that falls to the ground with sound is the gentlest shrapnel in the world and a souvenir of a silent war-in our imagination, it has been beating instead of the withered heart of the owner, like a never-ending wall clock. In the eyes of the world, Van Gogh was a madman. But in the hearing of this ear, the world is crazy.

The world first infected its madness to human painters-just as it once injected magic into his works. We were surprised to see Van Gogh's twisted face, frightened eyes and trembling gestures: he seemed to be suffering instead of the whole human race and became the embodiment of pain. With this in mind, we can understand the struggling lines and dancing color blocks in Van Gogh's works: his blood is mixed with the poured paint, and the canvas is just a bandage for his wound. This is a master who lives in trauma. He is used to talking to the world with a wound. This is a painful reaper, and his sickle finally harvested his ears.

The world failed to save the dying patient. Van Gogh put down the bleeding blade-soon, he picked up a revolver. He seems to regard himself as an imaginary enemy more and more, and constantly chooses weapons to attack. The end result was naturally devastating: in a wheat field in arles, he pulled the trigger with the hand he used to hold the brush. Whenever I admire Van Gogh's legacy (even his printed works) more than a century ago, I don't know why, I can always vaguely smell the smell of smoke-or death. But his madness seems more terrible than his death. Castrated ears are more shocking than being shot in the body. Van Gogh died, but he left a famous ear-this last relic doesn't seem to have lost his hearing, collecting comments from future generations. The bleeding ear in the story is still like a stethoscope buried in our lives, spying on our conscience. Van Gogh is dead, his ears are still alive, and he still has memories. When he groans and collapses, why not give him a hand-the world, do you hear? Where do your ears grow?

I will never forget the title of a foreign novel: more people die of heartbreak. What are the characteristics of the heartbroken deceased? I guess their faces are covered with more peaceful expressions than ordinary people. From this, we can understand why Van Gogh is still as calm and dull as a rock in his self-portrait after injury-as if pain had befallen another person or had left his body. It can be said that when he cut off his ear uncontrollably, his heart was broken-like porcelain falling to the ground. When he looked at his incomplete self in the mirror, he himself died prematurely. The death of the heart precedes the death of life. A heartbroken person is already a walking corpse, even if he is alive. Van Gogh was incomplete before his death. He dug a gap for himself with a blade.

Autumn is coming, and the scales of the lyre are all in place.

This is a sentence from Van Gogh's letter to Theo. I can't tell whether this is a sentence quoted by Van Gogh from other places or his own language. But I believe that when he wrote this line, the joy was from the heart.

At the time of writing this letter, Van Gogh was faced with more and more brilliant colors in the fields and the autumn of his painting career. His palette is getting brighter and brighter. He ploughed in the scorching sun and lost track of time. Canvas is his field. When people misunderstand him the most, it is when he has the most confidence in his own creation.

Due to the unsolvable confusion, I reread this autobiography of Van Gogh (this is the Chinese translation of the name, which is somewhat opportunistic. Actually, this is just a collection of Van Gogh's letters. Dear Theo), I want to see how a person who has experienced greater suffering will continue his way. This way of comforting myself is a bit like drinking poison to quench thirst, but when I read the whole book, I really calmed down a lot.

Before his life came to an abrupt end, Van Gogh had been so happy and calmly watching the color of life flow from himself. Among these colors, there is also the pain that has always followed him. Because of these darker colors, other things are more dazzling.

Van Gogh shot himself, but his life did not seem to stop, but was smeared in every painting. These paintings are always alive, as long as the eyes touch them, they will make a sound immediately. If you have seen the harvest scene and heard the flow of corn or grain, you will be familiar with this sound.

Van Gogh: Crazy about love.

1In the autumn of 869, as the family became poorer and poorer, 16-year-old Van Gogh was introduced by his uncle to a small clerk in the art business. He was honest, reliable, intelligent and diligent, and was soon promoted and sent to London. In London, he fell in love with the landlord's daughter ursula at first sight. Van Gogh, ugly, walks with his back bent like a little old man. He thinks Ursula is a peerless beauty and is fascinated by it. Ursula answered his pursuit with indifference and wry smile. Van Gogh, whose first love was shattered, went to Paris with sadness.

Van Gogh, who was inseparable, kept reading the Bible, Dickens and Zola in his depression to dispel his troubles. After working for 6 years, 1876, the boss dismissed Van Gogh because of his nervousness. He returned to London and taught French in a slum school. Van Gogh still went to ursula, only to find that she was married. In desperation, Van Gogh refused to teach and accepted the invitation to do charity work in the slums. He witnessed the tragic situation of the poor in Dickens' works, which made him want to express his feelings through painting for the first time. The Theo brothers advised him to study painting, but he decided to become a priest like his father. /kloc-in the summer of 0/878, he preached in a mining area in southern Belgium, comforting the elderly and teaching the children of miners to read. At that time, the epidemic was prevalent. Regardless of his personal safety, he guarded the workers day and night, distributed food, clothing and utensils to the poor, and slept on straw bags. When the local mine exploded. He also risked his life to save a seriously injured miner. His too serious spirit of sacrifice angered the church.1In July, 879, Van Gogh was dismissed from his teaching post.

1880, his younger brother Theo, who worked in an art shop, helped 27-year-old Van Gogh learn painting, but the money was only enough for Van Gogh to live. Without extra money to buy clothes and painting materials, Van Gogh often had to eat chestnuts to satisfy his hunger.

188 1 year, Van Gogh expressed his affection for his cousin who had just lost his spouse, but he was rejected. At this time, he changed his view on religion and once quarreled with his father: "I know your bourgeois religion." You are all hypocrites. I broke up with your religion forever. I am pursuing the gospel of art! " He left home for The Hague to learn painting from his cousin Mao Wei, but he was dissatisfied with Mao Wei's classical method of making him keep painting plaster statues. One day, he smashed the plaster statue and left. He wrote to his younger brother Theo: "What I want to paint is human nature! Humanity! Humanity! "

One day, he met an unfortunate pregnant woman in the street and took her home to be a model. He has been painting her and promised to marry her as soon as he has money. That woman is an alcoholic, ugly and hopeless prostitute. Van Gogh took care of her enthusiastically and saved money for her. He put a cradle in the studio and bathed the newborn baby like his own child, but the woman stole his money to drink for fun. If his younger brother Theo hadn't stepped forward to help him out, he might have been ruined by that shameless woman. He wrote to her: "Goodbye, although I don't believe you will turn over a new leaf, at least you should be honest." . Even if you are just an unfortunate prostitute, as long as you have children, you are a real mother. "

Margot in the Vatican? Gao is the only woman who loved Vincent in her life. Unfortunately, due to family pressure, this relationship did not succeed. Margot swallowed the poison, and Vincent invited a doctor to treat her. Margot finally recovered. But one day the dream of marrying Vincent didn't come true. Later, in brabant Province, Van Gogh was finally shot by Cupid's arrow for the first time. Margot, older than Van Gogh? Begemann took a fancy to Van Gogh's kindness, and they lived happily for a few days, but finally they had to break up because of her parents' interference.

From 65438 to 0885, Van Gogh entered the long-awaited Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, but the highest academy of fine arts let him down. Once, when he was painting the statue of Venus, he drew a pair of fat legs for the goddess like a Dutch housewife. The teacher was very angry and took his brush away. He shouted at the teacher, "You don't know what a woman looks like. Women must have thighs, hips and pelvis to have children! " "Van Gogh was kicked out of the college gate. At this time, 33-year-old Van Gogh was suffering from typhoid fever, and he decided to go to Paris to seek the shelter of his younger brother. He met many impressionist painters in Paris, including Gauguin who brought him a series of misfortunes.

Van Gogh was tired of the noise and bizarre life in Paris, and he longed to return to the quiet nature. With the help of his younger brother, he came to Acheng in the south of France, stayed in an inn and painted crazily, sometimes drawing more than a dozen a day. Van Gogh was often very excited when he painted. Besides brushes, he also uses his fingers and knives. Sometimes he just squeezes colors onto the canvas. Living at the bottom of society for a long time, he expressed deep sympathy for the poor and the unfortunate: "I am willing to express the excitement of an ordinary person with my works." The ideal of "artists' commune" appeared before him, and he invited Gauguin to live in arles. 1888 10, the incompetent and cynical Gauguin came. ?

Gauguin is arrogant. From the beginning, he constantly mocked and teased Van Gogh, often making fun of his frustration in love, and at the same time jealous of Van Gogh's art and his loyalty to art. The simple and honest Van Gogh was always tolerant of his friends. Gauguin once bribed a prostitute in advance, insulted and laughed at Van Gogh in public, humiliated Van Gogh, flew into a rage and left angrily with Gauguin. Christmas is coming, Gauguin bribed another prostitute to play a trick on him. The woman said to Van Gogh, "If you give me five francs, I will treat you well, otherwise you will give me a Christmas present with your big ears." Half drunk, Van Gogh grabbed a sharp razor, cut off his right ear, wrapped it in canvas and sent it to a brothel. Later, he painted many self-portraits, among which the self-portrait with his ears cut off is the most famous.

1889 In May, his younger brother Theo sent Van Gogh to an insane asylum, and later transferred him to a better nursing home. In the field near the hospital, Van Gogh painted 150 oil paintings and hundreds of sketches. At this time, his painting style suddenly changed, and he was particularly fascinated by the golden wheat fields under the scorching sun and painted these landscapes all day. He shouted: "golden yellow! What a beautiful golden yellow! " 1890 he asked to leave the hospital to sketch, but his old illness recurred halfway.

One afternoon, sitting under a tree in an inn, he saw his father's parish and flower bed in a trance, Ursula and the miners, Gauguin and the "girls" and heard their laughter. Knowing that he was crazy, he kept shouting, "This is impossible! Absolutely impossible! " In the quiet field, facing the bright sunshine, he shot himself in the stomach with a pistol, then calmly packed up his painting tools and walked back to the hotel as usual. He stayed up for two days and the pain was unbearable, but he didn't shout. Before his death, he had been smoking and talking about art with his brother Theo. 1890 died on June 29th, aged 37, with a lighted pipe in his mouth. His best friend and doctor Xie Jia planted his favorite sunflower beside his grave. Theo, who has always loved his brother, can't stand this heavy blow. Six months later, he died of madness in his hometown and was buried next to his brother's grave, where he will rest forever.