Yesterday was a small year, the twenty-third waxing moon, and today it is still a small year, the twenty-fourth waxing moon. Traditional Chinese, whether in the south or in the north, have the custom of having a small year, and as for the form and content of the small year, it is naturally different. When it comes to the New Year, whether it is a big year or a small year, it is a year, but if it can be touched with snow, it will naturally be very good. A sentence of Ruixue Mega Year is even more touching and expecting a lot from people in life.
It just so happened that a few days ago there was snow, really like goose feathers falling, laying a layer of white on the ground, which is very suitable for the scene, and the hope of the Mega Year is worth exploring. In fact, as early as the winter solstice, the first snow of the year into winter was ushered in, and it came at the right time. Unlike the past two years, I have always been looking forward to the snow, but I have never seen a snow shadow. Later, even if you wait for a few snowflakes to fall, the falling snowflakes will soon melt in the warm arms of the earth, and in a few moments there will be no snow traces.
Parijs in de sneeuw
【Category】Oil on canvas 【Specification】72×88cm[Age] 1894【Author】Paul Gauguin
This year's snow, coming calmly and generously, brought people a lot of surprises, and the unprepared momentum became an unexpected accident. It seems that in the face of beautiful desires, people's expectations are fulfilled by the number of non-linear thinking, and achievements have their own suspension period, and this period of suspension may be the steadfastness of people who are considering the good expectations. The painter Paul Gauguin's Parijs in de sneeuw is a good recommendation for the moment.
The creation time of "Paris in the Snow" is a bit like the achievement suspension period that Gauguin was in at that time. Full of enthusiasm and excitement, he brought back from Tahiti the works he created, in vivid colors, primitive, wild and exotic. Soon sponsored by the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, he held a solo exhibition with more than a quarter of the monetization, which made him a huge income.
During that time, Gauguin temporarily lived in the Montparnasse district of Paris, which means Mount Parnasse, which is said to be the residence of the muses in ancient Greek mythology, the embodiment of love and beauty, the source of artistic inspiration. Montparnasse, which originated here, attracted many artists and poets from that time with its wonderful legends and full of artistic charm.
Will it be a sudden snow that hinders Gauguin's participation in salons, inheritance, and clarification of the relationship with the dealer, as well as the relationship with the family, so that there is a rare leisure time, from the second floor of the residence, the window to meet the snow, painted this "Paris in the Snow". It seems that the snow should have stopped, and there are two characters on the interstitial passage between the buildings, in the lower left corner of the picture, and the back-facing state increases the dynamics of the picture extension.
The tangled branches show stubborn vitality, almost crawling the entire width of the painting, but the white snow on the roof and window eaves, showing an insignificant posture, fell gently and quietly melted. Such snow could not envelop Gauguin's hurried footsteps, and he had to go to Brittany again, and he would return to Tahiti.
Gauguin's ability to capture color and use color has an extraordinary talent, but his modeling skills are slightly insufficient. As painting tends to be a flat decorative effect becomes a fashion, perspective is tiled, the shape is weakened, and the use of the cloisonné separation style makes its weakness a feature. The whiteness of the snow and the clarity of the air in the painting are particularly evident in the colorful environmental color blocks used by Gauguin, and the rhythm of the space gives people ease and stretching.
The storefront in the background has the words "UFS OCCASION", possibly a spelling of "Neufs Occasions", new and second-hand. Whether it is a pawn shop or a carriage equipment supply store, there is no definite answer, it is certain that at this time, Gao Correction is facing the window of life choices. Gauguin dropped his signature on the snow on another roof shaded by the eaves, a move that made a seemingly careless snow painting seem less cloudy and breezy.
Eventually, Gauguin presented the painting to Van Gogh's sister-in-law Johanna van Gogh-Bunge, at least three or four years after van Gogh and Theo died. She is also desperately advocating for the van Gogh brothers' unfinished artistic path. Today, the work is in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum.