I believe that when many students learn to paint, they will encounter the "Van Gogh", some friends around them, feeling that if they want paintings to sell for a price, they can't do it before they die, and they must wait until after death to be valuable, such irony is undoubtedly a strong ideological bias in doubt.
There is a painter in the mainland whose experience is very similar to Van Gogh's, and he is the painter Chang Yu. He was also jokingly called the "Chinese version of Van Gogh" by netizens, the paintings in front of him were worthless, but after his death, they sold for a sky-high price, many people felt that fate was joking with this talented painter, but when they really walked into his paintings and experienced his loneliness and talent, they found that they just couldn't understand his paintings at that time.
Chang Yu was born in 1900 in a relatively wealthy family in Sichuan, due to his parents' thrifty family, Chang Yu has been exposed to many new things since he was a child, and the paintings that affected his life were produced when he was a child and quarreled with his playmates. When his peers were catching birds and teasing cats in the wild, he said: "I will draw all these things", the friends all said bragging, Chang Yu went home and took out his pen and ink, the painting was very "unprofessional", but the seeds of painting took root in his heart from an early age.
Chang Yu is a lucky person, in 1919 Chang Yu and a few friends went to Paris, France to study, when France was very famous in the world, can go to France to study has always been the dream of many students, and Chang Yu went to study with a later shock to the painting world of the master level painter Xu Beihong, should have a bright future, Chang Yu and Xu Beihong took the opposite path, Xu Beihong believes that art is from the essence, Chang Yu believes that art is inaction.
Why is it said that Chang Yu, who is jokingly called "The Chinese version of Van Gogh" by netizens, is a lucky person, in fact, Van Gogh has no choice, whether it is career or love, can not get the understanding of the world, but he has been chasing after himself, and Chang Yu actually has a choice, when Xu Beihong in order to let him and himself at the same time into the classroom, countless times to dissuade, but always in the poor, so, a dramatic scene appeared, in the café to watch "Dream of the Red Chamber", while playing the violin while painting, in exchange for who, can not go long, Even if he is a genius.
Because Chang Yu's artistic talent is extremely high, coupled with one of his oil painting teachers at that time very much like his creative style, so in 1925 Chang Yu's works were selected for the French Autumn Salon, and in 1933, he held his own painting exhibition in Amsterdam, and it is conceivable that in the social background at that time, he could hold a personal exhibition in Amsterdam, which shows that his artistic talent is extremely high, and many people who go to study are envious, but Chang Yu is still going his own way, a cynical look, In the end, he and Xu Beihong and other students embarked on the opposite path for two days.
Chang Yu's artistic talent is extremely high, which is undeniable, but all day long wine and coffee, want to paint, do not want to paint to spend the day and wine, no matter how good your talent will be gradually eliminated and forgotten, even the death of relatives is only to go to mourn the so-called "study" in France, and finally let him and his relatives and friends part ways, until 1966 in the Paris rental house in France due to gas leakage died.
Chang Yu has a unique cognition of painting, he never emphasizes brushwork modeling, paints with his heart, and perfectly presents the ideology of things in a dashing atmosphere, which is difficult for many painters to achieve in their lifetime, but Chang Yu has done it, because of such a unique artistic cognition, he has a little fame in France, but his paintings still cannot be sold, which is extremely similar to the famous painter Van Gogh.
Many of Chang Yu's paintings have sold at sky-high prices, many of which were not optimistic before his death, "Five Nude Women" sold for 266 million, the most expensive transaction record of all Chang Yu's paintings, "Four Nude Women with Green Background" sold for 225 million, and on June 5, 2021, Chang Yu's "Gunma" sold for 207 million yuan at the "Modern and Contemporary Art Night Show" auction.
Many people think that Chang Yu's life and Van Gogh are extremely similar, but the two are actually very different, Van Gogh is not understood by the world, and Chang Yu is gradually lost in self-knowledge, a good card to play a thin, many netizens feel that Chang Yu "the pattern is small", if at that time in the time of fame, and Xu Beihong and other people immersed in learning, the final result must be different, the road is walked out, the road of art is also the same.