Appreciation of Van Gogh's Starry Sky

Van Gogh's universe can last forever in the starry night. This is an illusion, surpassing any attempt by Byzantine or Roman artists to express the great mystery of Christianity. Van Gogh's paintings of exploding stars are more closely related to space exploration in that era than to the era of mysterious belief. However, this illusion is caused by the accurate brushwork that took a lot of effort. When we understand expressionism in painting, we often associate it with brave brushstrokes. Whether it is bold and unrestrained or flame-like brushwork comes from intuition or spontaneous performance, and is not bound by rational thinking process or rigorous techniques. The originality of Van Gogh's paintings lies in his supernatural experience, or at least his extrasensory experience. And this kind of experience can be proved by a cautious brush stroke. This brushwork is like an artist racking his brains to accurately copy what he is observing. In a sense, yes, because Van Gogh was an artist who painted what he saw. What he saw was an illusion, and he was also an illusion. Starry Night is a landscape painting both near and far, which can be seen from the high-viewpoint landscape techniques of Bruegel, a landscape painter in the16th century, although Van Gogh's more direct source is some impressionist landscape paintings. Tall poplars trembled and floated slowly in front of us; The small villages in the valley live safely under the protection of the steeple church; All the stars and planets in the universe are spinning and exploding in the "doomsday judgment". This is not the final judgment of man, but the final judgment of the solar system. This painting was painted by/kloc-0 in June, 1989 in St. Remy's sanatorium. After the second nervous breakdown, he lived in this nursing home. There, his illness was good and bad, and when he was awake and full of emotions, he kept painting. The colors are mainly blue and purple, and the yellow of the stars beats regularly. The dark green and brown poplars in the foreground mean endless nights around the world. Van Gogh inherited the great tradition of portrait painting, which is rare among his contemporaries. His passionate love for people made it inevitable for him to paint portraits. He studied people like nature, from the initial sketch to the last self-portrait he drew a few months before 1890. It faithfully shows the terrible and tense eyes that crazy people stare at. A madman, or a person who can't control his behavior, can't draw such a measured and skillful painting anyway. In different levels of blue, some rhythmic lines set off the beautiful sculptural head and strong trunk. Everything in the painting is blue or blue-green, except the dark shirt and the head with red beard. The combination of all colors and rhythms from the head to the trunk to the background, as well as the subtle changes in the emphasis parts, all indicate that this artist has a very good grasp of modeling methods, as if Van Gogh could record his mental illness when he was fully awake. I remember a saying about Van Gogh: "Brilliance to the extreme is either bleak or death, so Van Gogh can only, destroy himself." agree

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