Introduce Van Gogh.

Vincent Van Gogh,1853 March 30th-1890 July 29th.

Dutch, a representative figure of post-impressionism.

Van Gogh abandoned all the acquired knowledge, ignored the dogma cherished by the academic school, and even forgot his own reason. In his eyes, there is only a vibrant natural landscape, and he is intoxicated with it and forgets things. He regards everything in the world as an inseparable whole, and he embraces everything with all his body and mind.

Van Gogh became a highly personalized painter very late, only eight years before his death.

Van Gogh had little formal training in painting. He worked hard day after day and got canvases, oil paints and painting tools. He was constantly in a state of spiritual contradiction and he was under pressure to pursue artistic perfection. These, if not the direct cause of his later illness, also planted seeds for his life tragedy.

Van Gogh is interested in the representation of real feelings, that is, he wants to show his feelings about things, not the visual image he sees.

Van Gogh classified his works into another category different from impressionist painters. He said, "In order to express myself more forcefully, I use colors more freely." In fact, not only the color, but also the perspective, shape and proportion have changed to show an extremely painful but very real relationship with the world.

Van Gogh is an artist with a real sense of mission, which is also a feature of artists who call themselves expressionists. Van Gogh summed up this feeling when talking about his own creation: "I risked my life for it;" Because of it, half my reason collapsed; But it doesn't matter ...

Van Gogh never gave up his belief that art should care about practical problems and explore how to awaken conscience and transform the world.

Van Gogh committed suicide at the age of 37. As an artist, it was not until shortly before his death that he won the praise of critics for his shocking and imaginative paintings.

Within a few years after Van Gogh's death, some painters began to imitate his painting methods. In order to express strong feelings, they can't truthfully reflect the reality. This creative attitude is called expressionism and proved to be a lasting trend in modern painting.

Although Gauguin and Van Gogh's names have become pioneers of modern expressionism and models of extremely personalized artists, it is hard to imagine how different their personal characteristics are. Gauguin was a man who attacked traditional ideas. His language is mean, cynical, cold and sometimes rude. Van Gogh, on the other hand, was full of naive, passionate and deep love for artists. After his life experience, this love made him become an art dealer, and he had the desire to conduct theoretical research, and later became a missionary in the Belgian coal mining area. 1880 began to learn painting, and later studied in Brussels, The Hague and Antwerp. He came to Paris in 1886, where he met Lautrec, Seurat, Sinek, Gauguin and the original impressionists.

Van Gogh's palette brightened after he met an impressionist painter in Paris. He found that the only thing he loved deeply was color, brilliant and incongruous color. The color characteristics in his hands are fundamentally different from those of Impressionism. Even though he used the impressionist technique, his conclusion was non-brahmin because of his unique observation ability of man and nature. It has always been like this.

works

1. Cafe at night

Van Gogh's passion came from the world he lived in and the strong reaction of people he knew. This is by no means a simple reaction made by a primitive man or a child. His letter to his brother Theo is the most touching story written by the artist. The letter shows his highly sensitive perception, which is completely in line with his emotional response. He is keenly aware that he is getting the effect, which is achieved through yellow or blue. Although most of his color concepts are used to express his love for man and nature and his happiness in the process of expression, he is very sensitive to dark colors, so when talking about Cafe at Night, he said, "I try to express the terrible passion of human beings in red and green." The cafe at night is a nightmare composed of dark green ceilings, red walls and uncoordinated green furniture. The golden floor presents a vertical perspective and enters the red background with incredible power. Conversely, the red background is also quite competitive with its strength. This painting is an irreconcilable struggle between the perspective of space and the aggressive color trying to destroy it. The result is a terrible experience of claustrophobia and oppression. The work indicates surrealism's exploration of perspective as a means of fantasy expression, but no exploration can have such shocking power.

2. A starry night

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; 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 conscious 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.

3. "Crowds of crows are flying in the wheat field."

In this painting, there is still his unique golden color that people are familiar with, but it is full of anxiety and gloom. The thick blue sky with dark clouds is pressing the golden wheat field, so heavy that people can't breathe, and the air seems to have solidified. A group of messy crows fly low, the undulating horizon and the violent strokes add to the sense of oppression, resistance and uneasiness. The picture is extremely turbulent, and the green path goes deep into the distance in the yellow wheat field, which adds anxiety and excitement. This painting reveals tension and ominous omens everywhere, as if it were a silent suicide book composed of colors and lines. The very next day, he came to this wheat field and shot himself in the heart.