May you, like Van Gogh, find the sun in your heart, illuminate yourself and others.
Van Gogh 1853 was born in Holland, and his family was good. He started painting at the age of 10. The mainstream social paintings in Van Gogh's life are works with neat lines and delicate and realistic pictures, which mainly show aristocratic life. Moreover, he likes to draw figures, such as the old woman sleeping on the steps, the old man wearing a cotton-padded jacket and walking stick, and other particularly simple life figures. So it runs counter to the popular style, and naturally his paintings are unpopular.
The family thought that Van Gogh was unfit to be a painter, so they asked him to sell paintings. After a while, I lost my job, because I didn't like mainstream royal paintings and offended my guests. Later, he was given a job as a priest through his family relationship, which is similar to that of a civil servant now. His income is stable and he is not busy or tired at work. But the boss didn't like him, thinking that he misappropriated resources, and finally he was forced to leave.
1886 In the winter, Van Gogh just quit his job as a priest and came to Paris, where he met Gauguin, one of the few good friends in his life. Van Gogh's famous sunflower painting was not originally used to express his passionate feelings, but was given to a person, Gauguin. From 65438 to 0888, Van Gogh invited Gauguin to live and paint in his arles. Sunflower painting is a gift prepared by Van Gogh to welcome Gauguin.
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo created two classic war paintings because of a sacred retribution. China's Li Bai and Du Fu, Du Fu admired Li Bai's talent and wrote more than ten poems for Li Bai. The stories of Gauguin and Van Gogh are very similar to them.
They discuss how to mix colors, composition and painting together ... their lives are getting closer and closer, even going in and out together. But this time it only lasted for more than a month. Slowly, the two found a huge difference in their creative mentality.
They like going to cafes for coffee very much, and they all drew cafes. Van Gogh has a painting called Night Cafe, which was taken from the street. This painting shows a long and narrow street. On one side of the street, there is a bright yellow cafe where people drink coffee. On the other side, there is a row of green trees. In this blue night sky, there are yellow and green, giving people a bright and warm feeling.
In contrast, Gauguin's paintings are completely different from Van Gogh's. He painted not the cafe itself, but the image of the proprietress in the cafe. The proprietress sat in front of the cafe, while the guests chatted with each other over coffee. The proprietress looked dignified, as if listening to the guests and thinking about something. The main colors of the whole picture are black and dark red, which makes people feel calm but depressed.
Through these two paintings, one is high, the other is quiet, the other is intense and the other is depressing, and the styles are completely different.
This has also led to more and more obvious contradictions and differences between the two people. Finally, on the eve of Christmas Eve, they parted. Van Gogh always looked forward to Gauguin's arrival with strong emotions, and he also enthusiastically wanted to maintain their relationship, but Gauguin remained calm and finally chose to leave. Gauguin's decision made Van Gogh's emotions more intense. He chose to hurt himself and cut off one of his ears.
Van Gogh's Sunflower is not a painting by Van Gogh, but a series of works. At that time, Van Gogh planned to paint 12 sunflowers, and later completed 1 1. One of the paintings, Fifteen Sunflowers, is the most famous, widely known and popular still life painting in the western art world.
Then why is the sunflower in the painting 15?
Some people say that 12 disciples in the Christian story, together with Van Gogh's younger brothers Theo, Gauguin and himself, formed 15. It is also said that these 15 different forms of sunflowers represent the whole life process of sunflowers from germination to flowering to withering.
Van Gogh's yellow gives people a warm feeling. Bright colors create a sense of hierarchy. You can see that the petals of every sunflower come out of the stamens and are slightly curled. The whole flower is like a flame, just like every sunflower has its own personality and life.
Van Gogh's and Gauguin's paintings all have various bright yellow, red, blue and black elements intertwined, which is their initial attraction. From mutual support to parting ways, Van Gogh finally cut off his ear because Gauguin left. Since his ear was cut off, his mental condition became worse and worse, and later he was admitted to a mental hospital.
Van Gogh's life was only 37 years. Van Gogh created more than 2,000 works in the last decade of his life, including more than 900 oil paintings and more than 0/100 sketches.
According to Van Gogh, nothing in the world is immortal, including art itself. The only immortal thing is the understanding of people and the world conveyed by art.
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