Vincent William van Gogh, a tragic genius painter in art history. His legendary life experience has attached a layer of brilliance to his works that others cannot surpass.
In Van Gogh's short and brilliant life, he left many classic quotations and works, such as: "I have a fire burning inside, while other people can only see a small amount of smoke." Also, "There is no more true art than loving someone." Paintings such as "Sunflower", "Iris", "Self-Portrait" are almost everyone knows. However, if you choose a favorite work from Van Gogh's works, Xiao Dai believes that many people will vote for the dreamy "Starry Night".
This painting is wide enough to rank in the top ten of historical paintings, but unfortunately, many people do not really understand this painting, and even, because of the problem of picture compression and tone, the "Starry Night" painting we see is far from the real work. Today, Xiao Dai will re-introduce this world-class famous painting for everyone.
The English name of "Starry Night" is "Starry Night", and people who like romance will call it "Starry Moon Night". In fact, Van Gogh did not name the painting, for Van Gogh, the painting is a "nocturnal study", if you have to add a name, its name should be called "Failure".
The painting "Starry Night" was painted by Van Gogh around June 1889, and the place depicted is a "shelter", said to be a shelter, but it is more like a prison. The caregiver doctor did not allow him to paint in the bedroom, so the painting was done in a studio on the ground floor. It is worth mentioning that this painting is not a real sketch in the true sense of the word, and many scenes were depicted by Van Gogh according to his imagination.
From Van Gogh's letter to his younger brother Theo, we can understand the circumstances of his life when he painted Starry Night. On May 23, 1889, Van Gogh described it in a letter: "I can see a small closed window, through which I see the sun rising every morning. Half a month or so later, Van Gogh wrote: "I saw the countryside through the window before dawn, and a very large morning star." The morning star in the letter is Venus, and the brightest star we see on the right side of the cypress tree in Starry Night is the morning star seen by Van Gogh.
Peeking through the small windows into the sky at dawn, imaginatively depicting mountains, farmland and stars, Starry Night is not so much a landscape as a self-portrait of Van Gogh's spiritual world.
I don't know why, Van Gogh rarely mentioned the painting to his brother Theo, but in a list of paintings sent to him, he named the painting "Night Study", in which Van Gogh added: "All in all, I think the only things that are a little good are wheat fields, mountains, orchards, olive trees and blue hills, as well as portraits and quarries, and the rest is nothing to say to me." Van Gogh did not mention the painting as if he did not want his brother to know his situation and situation. The rest of the letter includes this world-famous painting, which came to be called "Starry Sky". Four months later, Van Gogh mentioned the painting again in a letter to the painter Emile Bernard, who called it a "failure."
This is the story between Van Gogh and Starry Night, and we have no way of knowing why Van Gogh called such a wonderful work a "night study", let alone the failure of this painting.
But what we do know is that a year after the completion of Starry Night, Van Gogh left this world forever in a wheat field, and it was the painting that failed, or van Gogh himself, or the world he was facing? Again, this is a question that has no answer.
Let's enlarge this painting, from every brushstroke of Van Gogh, across time and space to feel, his feelings when creating this work, to experience the experience he experienced, and to have a spiritual exchange with Van Gogh in the painting.
Enlarged partial view of Starry Night:
The starry night that Xiao Dai found has more than 500 M, roughly calculated by 5 M as "5 million pixels", this picture is 500 million pixels high, which may not be so large in fact, but it is enough for us to see every stroke clearly.