Art is the crystallization of human wisdom, and the museum is the best place for Chen Fang to display these crystals, so the collection in the museum should be precious masterpieces, but in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, there is a painting with a wrong painting, and its author is Gauguin, a painter who later became famous in the world, but a "wrong" painting can actually become the treasure of the town museum, what is the situation? Let me reveal the secrets to you.
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As a highly dialectical discipline, philosophy seems to be a compulsory course for people to grow up, although most students who are proficient in "mathematics, physics and chemistry" are very unfamiliar with it, but in fact, philosophy is everywhere in life. "Who am I?" "Where am I from?" "Where am I going?" A person's growth process will think about these seemingly unsolvable problems, which is part of philosophy, although it is basically unsolvable, but it can still make us gain something. In general, the process of thinking about philosophy is the process of building a person's world view, and everything that is experienced may affect the judgment of things, but how to judge is a very subjective thing, so there are all sentient beings who are not the same.
Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France, worked as a seaman and stockbroker when he was young, did not start to learn to paint until the age of twenty-five, and did not make a living from it at the age of thirty-five, but this did not affect his artistic achievements in the slightest, Gauguin and Van Gogh and Cézanne are known as the three giants of post-impressionism, Van Gogh's sunflower series is still regarded as an artistic treasure, Cézanne is revered as the "father of modern painting", he has an unparalleled understanding of color light and shade, in contrast, Paul Gauguin seems to pay more attention to creation itself, The American art historian Kissick once said: "Gauguin hopes to get more free from the shackles of natural observation in his works, so that the audience can independently understand more personal meaning to a certain extent, which was impossible to obtain in previous art." ”
In the year when Gauguin was forty-two years old, he began to get tired of civilized society, and he wanted to return to the wilderness, and it happened that he accidentally obtained a fairly rich inheritance, so he moved to tahiti in the Pacific, but his life did not get better, but it became worse, first of all, he created on a desert island, the indigenous people on the island were still in primitive society, it was impossible to buy his paintings, sitting on the mountain, the money was quickly spent, and then because of the harsh environment, he fell seriously ill again. Under the medical conditions at the time, the death penalty was almost pronounced, and the most heartbreaking thing for him was that his daughter died of pneumonia.
All thoughts were gray, Paul Gauguin decided to end his life himself, but before he died, he always had to leave something behind, ordinary people would write a suicide note and review his life, but the painter only had a paintbrush in his hand, so Gauguin began his final creation, which was the world-famous "Where Did We Come From?" Who are we? Where are we going? 》。
This is an oil painting of a human being with different images, showing nude figures of different genders and ages. The painting can be divided into three parts, in layman's terms, the far right is a newborn baby, symbolizing the birth of mankind; in the middle is a young man who is picking apples, indicating the survival and development of mankind; and on the far left is the image of an old woman, representing the end of human life.
But Gauguin's work is not simply a trilogy of human beings from birth to death, most of the people in the picture seem to have a mysterious charm, in addition, the kittens, black goats, wild fruits, branches, etc. in the painting, each image contains some philosophy, triggering people to think deeply about life. But what is puzzling is that the chronological order of Gauguin's paintings is not quite right, as an ordinary person, they all follow a process of infancy, middle age to old age, but from left to right, Gauguin's painting is a process from death to life, which is really a complete "mistake".
But Gauguin doesn't care how our descendants guess, "If the Si people are rainbows, they will know everything when they meet." His artistic creativity, his keen observation are enough to be remembered by posterity, as for this insignificant "mistake", it can not affect his artistic achievements in the slightest, some experts believe that this is Gauguin's intentional design of the reverse logic, highlighting his openness and freedom from life.
Philosophy has three questions, who am I? Where did it come from? Where to go? These three questions are really difficult to answer, but Paul Gauguin tells us with a paintbrush that he is a genius chosen by God, he is also a poor man tormented by demons, he came from suffering and eventually died alone, but fortunately, he wrote his name in the eternal sky with his own brush.
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Jin Xiaozhou
Source: 1. "Before and After" [Fa] by Paul Gauguin; Ma Yanping translated by Nova Publishing House