-Van Gogh
Speaking of Van Gogh, his short life was constantly told, adapted and praised by later generations.
Van Gogh's family was quite rich, but he was down and out all his life and did not have enough to eat. He was very talented, but before he died, he sold a painting, was at odds with his parents, was hated by his neighbors, lived and separated with prostitutes, and was persecuted by his friends until his ears were cut off and he was sent to a mental hospital. Nearly middle-aged, he achieved nothing, so he had to live on the living expenses given by his younger brother, and finally ended his scribbled life with a pistol.
No one can understand why Van Gogh made a mess of life. If you can choose, have you ever thought of a life like Van Gogh?
I think, unless those young people who have not been beaten by society yearn for and look forward to it, no layman will choose Van Gogh's life.
However, there is a burning "fire" in Van Gogh's body and a fire in his soul. He is eager to warm others and touch the world, holding a brush, and he expresses his love for the world with gorgeous colors and rich brushstrokes.
He can see the purest and most beautiful things, large tracts of apricot flowers in early spring, rolling mountains and wheat waves, and the flow of stars in the summer night sky ... all these are what he saw after he was "crazy". We are normal, but we can't see them.
Perhaps normality means that we have made too many compromises with reality and lost our true and pure selves again and again.
Van Gogh has been away from this world for a long time, but his talent beyond the times, his enthusiasm and paranoia, his kindness and loneliness are always recorded by painting.
He once wrote in his letter that he was destined to be an insignificant, eccentric and boring person. But he firmly believes that he will be famous in the world, and one day, people will know his voice through his works.
A hundred years later, he did it.
His paintings have sold at sky-high prices, and many people who know nothing about art can see the generate vitality and melancholy of the soul from his works.
Now, people may hide their faces and cry in front of a sunflower, sigh in front of a self-portrait, or burst into tears in front of a starry sky.
The paintings left behind could not be sold, were not understood, and were even laughed at and despised. However, after the end of life, some people understand, others understand, and more people want to hear.
But we can only face his paintings and dare not face his real life.
Van Gogh was born in a small town in the Netherlands on 1853.
His grandfather and father are both Protestant priests, and they believe in hard work and plain living. Van Gogh grew up in such a simple and grateful family.
/kloc-At the age of 0/6, Van Gogh got his first job as an art agent.
In addition to priests, the Van Gogh family also has art agents. His uncle introduced him to be a clerk in the largest art agency in Europe at that time, and his daily job was to make customers who walked into the store buy those poor fake paintings.
Later, my younger brother Theo joined the company. For my brother, art brokerage is his lifelong career. For Van Gogh, art brokers exposed him to many famous works of art, which opened his eyes to appreciate art.
Van Gogh liked to sketch landscapes on paper since he was a teenager. After working in an art agency, he often smears with brushes and sketchbooks, which is logical, but being an art agent is obviously not his ultimate goal in life.
"Who should I dedicate my life to?" Van Gogh kept asking himself.
He gave up his great career as an art agent.
From 65438 to 0878, Van Gogh came to Borina Day known as "Black Egypt" as a personal missionary to preach to a group of miners.
Van Gogh's life is not legendary, just like everyone's life, there will always be many moments of choice, and we must face the truest voice in our hearts.
On Borina Day, Van Gogh finally understood what real suffering looked like. He saw poor coal miners, breathing dirty smoke and dust every day, working in hot and dark underground, facing the danger of mine collapse and being buried alive at any time.
Van Gogh used rough lines to describe the heavy and strong bodies of workers. He tries to make his life burn into a little light, which can give some support and comfort to the poor.
When Van Gogh's father visited his son on Borina Day, he hardly recognized Van Gogh and exclaimed that his son was a miner.
The church was also very dissatisfied with Van Gogh's missionary way, thinking that the sloppy and poor Van Gogh was detrimental to the dignity of the church, and he was eventually expelled from the church.
Shouldn't the light of life shine in the darkest place?
Depressed and miserable, Van Gogh turned his emotions to painting.
He is not a trained painter. He really started painting at the age of 27. His works are often laughed at by other painters, criticizing his coal miners' works for the wrong proportion of human body, and urging him to start with basic perspective, proportion and human anatomy.
However, no one knows coal miners better than him, and Van Gogh's portraits care about everyone who exists. After working for a long time, the miners' health has been overwhelmed, which is not the proportion of normal people, nor can it compare with the elegant models with correct facial features in the school.
The priest laughed at Van Gogh as a priest, the painter laughed at Van Gogh as a painter, and Van Gogh wanted to transcend the vulgar life in which everyone was bound.
Sean, a prostitute, is five years older than Van Gogh. She gave birth to five children. She was pregnant when she met Van Gogh. Every child's father doesn't know who it is. For the first time, Van Gogh stared at a woman who was despised by the world, despised by morality and completely desperate.
Van Gogh asked Sean to be a model, paid for stickers and provided them to Sean's family. He drew many sketches of Sean.
Later, I didn't know whether it was for redemption or to really experience life. Van Gogh made a desperate decision to marry Sean. His family and friends couldn't understand his behavior, and even his younger brother Theo, who had always supported him, came to dissuade him.
Isn't it clearly recorded in the Bible that Jesus once forgave a prostitute? Why can't devout Christians care about a prostitute in real life?
Van Gogh may not love Sean, but he just wants to stare at life more truly and concretely. Perhaps, a genius knows that he is different from others, so he will have a different consciousness and a different set of logic.
He arranged a warm home to take Sean and the children home, but Van Gogh never imagined that Sean went to the street to meet the guests again.
The son of a priest who deviates from secular rules and has a bad reputation cannot escape the criticism of secular morality.
From then on, Van Gogh's lonely figure can often be seen in the fields of the village. He spent a long time watching farmers bend over and hoe the ground, and watching weavers sit by looms and work numbly. At this time, his painting is deep and gloomy, and his brushwork is heavy and bitter, as if he was burdened with too much sadness and sorrow.
Life seems hopeless. 1886, Van Gogh arrived in Paris at the call of his younger brother Theo.
Chen Danqing said that Van Gogh was probably the stupidest painter ever. Stupidity is nature and a strange gift.
After going to Paris, Van Gogh still liked to paint the lower classes, prostitutes, postmen, doctors and waiters in cafes around him. Every little person is full of innocence under his brush.
Through Theo, Van Gogh came into contact with impressionist painting, and his mental gloom was swept away. He began to pay attention to the relationship between light and color, and Van Gogh's paintings lit up.
He met a group of maverick painters, including Gauguin. Who is Gauguin? He is the prototype of The Moon and Sixpence.
1888, Van Gogh left Paris and went to arles, a small town in the south of France.
The farmers in Arles could not understand this strange painter, but Van Gogh fell in love with Al wholeheartedly. He always falls in love with miners, farmers, prostitutes and friends. ...
The Yellow House is Van Gogh's main residence in arles. He dreamed of sharing it with his friends and urged Gauguin to come and live with him. Gauguin accepted.
Before waiting for Gauguin to arrive, Van Gogh scrimped and saved to decorate his friend's room, which was almost his happiest moment. At that time, Van Gogh was full of creative passion. He painted a series of sunflowers.
Gauguin became a celebrity when he arrived in arles from Paris and almost got off the train, because while waiting for him, Van Gogh held up his portrait and publicized it everywhere so that the owner of the coffee shop could recognize Gauguin.
This kind of enthusiasm, immature, but also crazy.
They don't get along well. Their lives are so close that there are too many conflicts and frictions.
One night, Van Gogh and Gauguin quarreled fiercely, and Gauguin packed his bags and ran away. That night, Van Gogh cut his ear with a razor and was covered in blood. He ran out covering his ears and was found by his neighbors. They have been whispering about this unusual painter for a long time. What is more certain now is that this person is crazy and violent.
Neighbors reached an agreement, signed documents and submitted them to the police, demanding that Van Gogh be forcibly sent to a mental hospital for community safety.
If you were Van Gogh's neighbor, would you sue the madman who cut his ear at the police station? If you were Gauguin, would you pack your bags and fly away in the face of Van Gogh's fierce love? If you were Gauguin, would you understand Van Gogh?
Van Gogh has never been recognized by the secular world. His life is too pure and absolute, which scares secular people.
Genius is on the left and madman is on the right. Van Gogh was both a genius and a madman. In the face of cruel reality, any feelings may collapse without a trace, and our sincere tolerance and compassion are very fragile.
From 65438 to 0889, Van Gogh was admitted to a mental hospital, and his works during his illness touched everyone.
The window of the ward, every bright dawn, every morning when the mountain wind blows through the wheat field, every ear of wheat, every rolling mountain, every changing white cloud and every night star are all miracles.
Van Gogh was lonely, but his soul burned in a high fever, and his life was refined into absolute purity, like a naive child, drawing his simplest and direct life experience.
After burning, he will sing the elegy of life without complicated melody.
In a wheat field, Van Gogh ended his 37-year-old life with a gun.
Van Gogh wanted to hear from later generations that the painter had profound thoughts and a soft feeling.
Why can't people of that era find Van Gogh's goodness? Perhaps the avant-garde painter's thought is too advanced for people to understand and get used to, so that the times behind him are panting.
Think of Lu Xun's words: When I am dust, you will see my smile.
Van Gogh is undoubtedly a genius. He is a touch of red. Maybe we can't feel his life, but what about the life we face every day? Do we know nothing about our lives?
What is life?
Aside from the physiological needs of eating and drinking Lazarus, secular desires have formed our lives. Whether you are a genius or an ordinary person, whether you really like or love something, you know it's not for the sake of what, because it is the greatest reward in itself.
Are you ready to get burned for something that is "unrealistic" and "meaningless"?
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