Representative works
Sunflowers, Postman Ruland, Cafe Night Market, Night of the Stars and Moon, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ears, Church of Oué
Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles, Suspension Bridge near Arles, and so on, all of which contain a profound sense of tragedy as well as a strong sense of individuality and a distinctive pursuit of form. At that time, his works, though hardly accepted, had a profound influence on the Western painting art of the 20th century. Fauvism in France, Expressionism in Germany, and Lyrical Abstraction at the beginning of the 20th century were all inspired by the role of the subject in the creative process, the freedom to express his inner feelings, the awareness and grasp of the relative independence of the form's value, and the absorption and extraction of oriental painting factors in the creation of oil paintings, and so on, and they formed their own different schools of painting. Van Gogh rejected all acquired knowledge, disregarded the dogmas cherished by the academy, and even forgot his own reason. In his eyes, there was only the vibrant natural landscape, in which he was mesmerized, forgetting himself and the world. He saw everything in heaven and earth as an indivisible whole, and he embraced everything with all his body and soul. Van Gogh came to prominence as a highly individualized painter very late in life, only eight years before his death. Shown here are Van Gogh's earliest paintings. These include the Etten period, the Hague period and the Drenthe period. Van Gogh was almost 30 years old when he painted them. These works were completed around 1881-1883. After suffering a terrible blow in the mines of Bolinage and despairing of God, Van Gogh found a lifelong calling in painting, in the midst of his confusion and bewilderment. He began to copy a large number of famous paintings and drew a large number of sketching exercises. It can be said that Van Gogh was a self-taught genius painter. He was nurtured by art from a young age and had a very high level of literary literacy, which gave him a high appreciation of art. Van Gogh liked Rembrandt and Miller, and he used his own brush to depict peasants, workers, and people at the bottom of society. Although the deep and solid style of his paintings contrasted greatly with his later paintings, the temperament and spirit shown in his paintings were eternal.
Neunen
Toward the end of 1883, Van Gogh returned to Neunen, where his father's church was located. During his two years in Nuenen, he practiced his sketching skills. After a number of sketches and exercises, he completed his first famous work (the so-called famous is the result of posterity, as Van Gogh was only a young man waiting to be employed at the time), The Potato Eaters. This work, along with many of his works of this period, was influenced by the Dutch realist style of painting, and the picture is deep and has a strong sense of the countryside. It also shows Van Gogh's strong peasant complex, and he seems to have wanted to be a peasant painter. On the one hand, he was influenced by his "spiritual mentor" Miller, but more importantly, it was probably his deepest desire for country life, his respect for simple farmers and his admiration for honest labor. [Note]: Miller was a 19th-century French realist artist who loved to depict the life of peasants. Van Gogh's spiritual mentor, many of Van Gogh's works were influenced by him and copied many of his works.
Antwerp
At the end of November 1885, Van Gogh decided to go to Antwerp, where for three months he worked hard to learn painting and became absorbed in it. During this period, he learned about Rubens' paintings and came into contact with Japanese ukiyo-e, all of which had a great influence on his painting journey thereafter. Van Gogh's work during this period continued the realism and deep brushwork of his Nuenen period, but he also gradually made his canvases a little brighter and more colorful.
Paris
At the end of February 1886, Van Gogh arrived in Paris, the "capital of art". Van Gogh was excited by the rich artistic atmosphere here, and was particularly struck by the Impressionist paintings. Introduced by his brother, Theo (who was a famous dealer in Paris at that time and had a good relationship with the Impressionists), Van Gogh got to know many Impressionists, such as Lautrec, Gauguin, Seurat, Pissarro... After being influenced by the Impressionists, Van Gogh's style of painting changed, and his pictures became brighter. He also absorbed some techniques of the Impressionists, such as pointillism, in his creations. During this period, Van Gogh began to create a large number of self-portraits. 2 years later, Van Gogh grew tired of the city life in Paris. He was not satisfied with the impressionist techniques and ideas, and his unique personality tells us that Van Gogh's paintings do not belong to any school. So Van Gogh took his hopes to the south of France, to the sunny town of Arles, and ushered in his most brilliant period of creativity.
Arles
In February 1888, Van Gogh came to the small town of Arles in the south of France on the recommendation of a friend, and soon fell in love with it. The fierce sunshine and piercing wheat
The Roulin family (19 photos) fields made him "crazy". Creation went into high gear. Although influenced by French Impressionism and Japanese Ukiyo-e. But his works have been highly individualized, which originated from his unique perspective and sensitive character. He loved nature and life; he was not satisfied with just rational "imitation of the external image of things", but with painting "to express the artist's subjective opinions and emotions, so that the work has a personalized and unique style" (quotation marks in the original words of Van Gogh). Therefore, Van Gogh is a master who paints with his heart. Van Gogh rented a "yellow house" on the edge of a small town square to build a "painter's house". Gauguin came to live with him. Unfortunately, Van Gogh's syphilis entered the third stage, causing him to suffer from mental disorders, and he quarreled with Gauguin day and night, which led to the famous "ear-cutting incident". After protests from the inhabitants of Arles, Van Gogh was forced to leave and voluntarily went to St. Paul's Psychiatric Hospital in St. Remy, not far from Arles, to receive treatment. Van Gogh produced a large number of works in Arles, but was still unable to sell them to support himself. Sunflowers, Harvest Scene, Café Nocturne - Outdoors, Café Nocturne - Indoors, etc. are representative works of this period.
Saint-Rémy
On May 8, 1889, Van Gogh voluntarily came to Saint-Rémy, 25 kilometers from Arles. to be treated at the St. Paul's Psychiatric Hospital. At this time Van Gogh had fallen into the
Oil Painting_St_Rémy (20 pictures) psychiatric fear and confusion about the future. He had fits every few months, but was remarkably lucid afterward and often went outdoors to paint. Amazingly, Van Gogh was not disheveled under these circumstances, but painted a more mature, bolder, and more striking body of work. Many of the works of this period show strong emotions and "visual impact", rotating lines, rough and powerful, let a person feel the painter's complex and strong feelings and the urge to express. Representative works include: "Night of the Stars and Moon", "Cypress Tree" and so on. It is worth mentioning that it was at this time that critics began to comment on Van Gogh, and sold the only oil painting in his lifetime.
Auvers
On May 17, 1890, Van Gogh came to Paris to meet Theo, his wife and his newborn nephew Vincent (who shared Van Gogh's name). On Theo's recommendation, he went to Auvers, a small town not far from Paris, to be treated by Dr. Gachet and to continue his work.
Editing the "Mystery" of the Suicide
Van Gogh was getting along well with the locals, and his condition seemed to be improving, but on the afternoon of July 27th, he shot himself while out painting, and at dawn on the 29th, Van Gogh died by Theo's side. He was only 37 years old. The reasons for Van Gogh's suicide have always been debated. Personally, I believe that Van Gogh's suicide was not just due to mental problems. Works such as "Crows on the Wheatfield" were definitely painted by the artist in an extremely lucid state, but these paintings imply that Van Gogh's death was very obvious. Van Gogh's sudden suicide on the eve of his fame may remain a mystery. But remember his last words: "The sadness will last forever..." On January 25, 1891, Theo died six months after Van Gogh. Theo's body was buried next to Van Gogh's grave in Auvers in 1914. The two good brothers are together forever ......
Edited representative works
1. Café de la Nuit
Café de la Nuit (click to see a larger version)
Van Gogh's passion came from the world in which he lived, and from the fact that the people he knew were made to pressed a strong reaction. It was never the kind of simple reaction made by a primitive man or a small child. His letter to his brother Theo is one of the most moving stories ever written by an artist. The letter shows his highly sensitive perceptiveness, a perceptiveness that was perfectly in keeping with his his emotional response. He was keenly aware that he was gaining an effect, and that effect was achieved through yellow or blue. Although most of his ideas of color were used to express love for character and nature, and the delight in its expression, he was so sensitive to the darker colors that he said of The Café at Night, "I tried to use red and green as a means of expressing the terrible passions of mankind." Café at Night is a nightmare of dark green ceilings, blood-red walls and incongruous green furniture. The golden yellow floor is in vertical perspective and enters with incredible force into the red background, which, in turn, fights it with equal force. This painting is a never-ending struggle between the perspective space and the compelling colors that attempt to destroy that space. The result is a terrifying experience of claustrophobia, terror and oppression. The work foreshadows the Surrealist exploration of using perspective as a means of fantastical expression, but there is no exploration that has such a shocking power.
2. 'Starry Night'
Van Gogh's universe can be immortalized in 'Starry Night'. It is a vision beyond anything the Byzantine or Starry Night (click to see larger)
Roman artists did in the first place in their attempts to express the great mysteries of Christianity. Van Gogh's paintings of the erupting stars have more to do with the close relationship of that era of space exploration than they do with the era of mystical beliefs. Yet such visions were created with precise brushstrokes that took some effort. When we are recognizing expressionism in painting, we are inclined to associate it with courageous brushwork. It is the unrestrained, or flame-like, brushstroke that comes from intuition or spontaneous expressive action and is not bound by rational thought processes or rigorous technique. The originality of Van Gogh's painting lies in his supernatural, or at least supersensory, experience. This experience is evidenced by a careful brushwork. It is as if the artist were racking his brains to copy exactly what he is observing in front of him. In a sense, this is actually true, for Van Gogh is an artist who paints what he sees; he sees visions, and he is the vision. Starry Night is a landscape that is both intimate and distant, as can be seen in the high-viewpoint landscape technique of the sixteenth-century landscape painter Bruegel the Elder, although Van Gogh's more immediate source was the landscapes of certain impressionists. Tall white yew trees appear before us in a relaxed, trembling manner; small villages in the valleys, sheltered by steepled churches; all the stars and planets of the universe swirl and explode in the "Last Judgment". This is not a final judgment on people, but on the solar system. This work was painted in June 1889 at the St. Remy sanatorium. He was admitted to this sanatorium after his second nervous breakdown. There, his condition waxed and waned, and when he was lucid and full of emotion, he painted incessantly. The colors are mainly blues and violets, with regular pulsations of star-glowing yellows. The deep green and brown aspens in the foreground imply the blanketed night that surrounds the world. Van Gogh carried on the great tradition of portraiture, rarely seen in artists of his generation. His passionate love for people made it inevitable for him to paint portraits. He studied people as he did nature, from the first sketches and sketches to the final self-portrait he painted in the months before his suicide in 1890. It shows truthfully the terrible and strained eyes of a madman staring. A madman, or a man who cannot control his behavior, could not have painted such a measured and skillful picture anyway. Some rhythmic fluttering lines in different layers of blue reflect the beautiful sculpted head and the solidly modeled torso. Everything in the picture is blue or blue-green, except for the dark shirt and the head with the red beard. All the combinations of color and rhythm, from the head to the torso to the background, as well as the subtle variations in the areas emphasized, suggest an artist with a superb command of stylistic devices, as if Van Gogh, fully awake, could have recorded his psychotic episodes.
3. "Wheat Field with Crows"
There is still the familiar golden color on this painting, but it is full of uneasiness and a sense of gloom, the dark clouds of the heavy
blue sky, dead weight on the golden wheat field, so heavy that people can not breathe, and the air seems to freeze, a group of disorganized low-flying crows, fluctuating and undulating horizon, and the furious A flock of messy low-flying crows, the fluctuating and undulating horizon and the wild and turbulent brushstrokes add to the sense of oppression, defiance and uneasiness. The extreme commotion of the picture, with its green paths going deep into the distance through yellow wheat fields, adds to the restlessness and agitation, a picture that is everywhere tense and foreboding, as if it were a wordless suicide note of color and line. The very next day, he came back to this wheat field and shot himself in the heart. 4. "Self-Portrait After Cutting Off His Ear" Self-Portrait After Cutting Off His Ear
In 1888, Van Gogh invited Gauguin to live with him in Arles, and at first they got along happily, but as Van Gogh's condition recurred, the two artists quarreled incessantly. After a violent argument, Gauguin left in a rage, Van Gogh could not stop, and could not contain his excitement, but cut off his right ear. The world infected the first human painter with its madness - just as it had once imbued his brush with magic. We gaze in amazement at Van Gogh's distorted face, his horrified eyes and his trembling gestures: it is as if he were being tortured in the place of the entire human race, as if he were the embodiment of pain. When we think about this, we can also understand the struggling lines and wildly dancing color blocks in Van Gogh's works: the spilled paint is tempered with his blood, and the canvas, however, is just a bandage for him to dress his wounds. This is a master who lived with his wounds, who used to speak to the world with them. This is a reaper of pain, whose scythe eventually reaps its own ear. Van Gogh died, but left behind a famous ear - a final relic that doesn't seem to have lost its hearing and collects the chatter of posterity. This bloodless ear, present in the story, still pricks our conscience like a stethoscope buried in our lives Sunflower
. Van Gogh died with his ear still alive and possessing a memory. Why not support him as he groans and crumbles - world, do you hear me? Where do your ears grow? 5. "Fifteen Sunflowers" These sunflowers, simply placed in a vase, present a brilliant splendor that shakes the heartstrings. Van Gogh applied the colors with heavy brushstrokes, as if he were sculpting a piece of clay tapped onto a bas-relief. The yellow and brown tones of the colors and the technique suggest a beautiful world of hope and sunshine. However, while painting this work, the world that the artist desperately wants to hold on to slips away slowly but relentlessly. Perhaps the surface of this painting reflects his psychological state towards the end of his tragically short life. He was a painter who loved nature and saw pure beauty in simple things, and he said he would rather paint the shadows of trees looking out of a window than the beautiful visions of his imagination.
Edit section Van Gogh sunflower oil portrait
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Van Gogh sunflower oil portrait (also known as the 1 Chinese Van Gogh.2 sunflower Van Gogh open) is a Chinese oil painter Mr. Wu microwave creative philosophical portrait oil painting, is the Chinese oil painters remembering Van Gogh mourn the work. Creative interpretation of the work: Westerners once evaluated the Chinese Cultural Revolution oil painting as a Chinese-style Western oil painting. The Chinese leader Mao Zedong is the world's most painted by oil painters portraits of a leader. 1960s to the end of the 1970s, the Chinese people, from gray-haired old man, down to the baby teeth not yet out of the doll, will sing "Eastern Red". They would sing "The East is Red, the Sun is Rising, China has a Mao Zedong ......" and "Sunflower flowers face the sun, the sun is Chairman Mao, the sun is Mao Zedong". In those days, the author, Wu Weibo, was a small child, hanging a red silk thread from his neck to his chest, with a sunflower hanging on his chest and a portrait of the leader Mao Zedong in the core of the sunflower. This is the Chinese people with sunflower to the sun rhyme to express the Chinese people every day to the sun, every day miss Chairman Mao. "Sunflower" alias: sunflower, sunflower, for short sunshine crops. But it is very sensitive to sunlight. Sunflower likes sufficient sunlight. Sunflower" is the national flower of Russia, and the world-famous painting "Sunflower" is the masterpiece of Dutch painter Van Gogh, who is the representative figure of the late impressionist school of painting, and one of the most outstanding human artists in the 19th century. Van Gogh full name Vincent Willem van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh). 1853 March 30, 1853 born 1890 July 29 died 37 years old, the representative figure of the late impressionist school of painting, is one of the 19th century mankind's most outstanding artists. He loved life, but suffered many setbacks and hardships in life. He devoted himself to art, boldly innovated, and, on the basis of extensive study of Rembrandt and other painters of the previous generation, absorbed the experience of impressionist painters in color, and was influenced by oriental art, especially Japanese prints, forming his own unique artistic style, creating many works overflowing with the passion for life, rich in the spirit of humanitarianism, and expressing the bitterness, sorrow, sympathy and hope in his heart, which is still renowned in the world. For this reason, the author Wu Weibo used the oil painting style of the Cultural Revolution to create this Wu's commemorative oil painting "Sunflower Van Gogh". The sun is ancient, Van Gogh is ancient. Wu Weibo, 2000 A.D., Van Gogh School Oil Painting, (Wu's own oil on canvas) 122 cm×122 cm