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15 May 1990: Vincent van Gogh's oil painting "Portrait of a Doctor Kasher" was sold to a Japanese collector for $82.5 million in New York, USA, setting a record for the highest price of a painting at the time.
Van Gogh's life lasted only 37 years, but he created artistic miracles.
Van Gogh was born in 1853 into a middle-class family in the Netherlands, his mother was a housewife, grew up in a wealthy family, had a certain education, and knew something about high society.
Van Gogh's father and grandfather were both priests, and although they were not well paid, they lived well: the local church gave him a house and gave him a maid, two cooks, a gardener, and a horse and carriage.
Because they were a family of priests, the Van Gogh family was revered by the locals.
Interestingly, Van Gogh's family has certain artistic genes. In addition to his mother, who was good at painting, Van Gogh's five uncles and uncles all had some artistic talents, and three of them were in the art trading business. As we all know, this line of work must have a certain artistic accomplishment, otherwise it will not be possible to evaluate the price of goods.
Van Gogh's withdrawn personality did not change throughout his life. Not adapting to boarding school, Van Gogh studied some painting intermittently as a child.
He became a disciple of the famous painter Constantine Heismians, and his studies lasted less than 2 years.
Van Gogh did not approve of his master's style of painting and teaching methods, and finally chose to leave the school.
At the age of 16, Van Gogh was brought in by his uncle to the art trading company where he worked, and was mainly responsible for the appraisal of paintings.
Van Gogh can be said to be at home in this business, and he has been working happily for 7 years, and his salary is even higher than that of his uncle.
During this period, Van Gogh once proposed to the landlady's daughter, but the girl did not like the introverted Van Gogh and flatly refused. One said, this girl played with Van Gogh's feelings, seduced him to fall in love with her, and then abandoned him.
The blow of falling out of love greatly inspired Van Gogh's creation, which also caused Van Gogh's potential mental problems.
As a result, Van Gogh's life and work began to deteriorate, and he was finally dismissed from the company in 1876 at the age of 24.
After losing his job, Van Gogh began a series of chaotic lives, suffering a series of failures one after another: failed secondary school substitute teacher, failed seminary entrance exam, failed missionary, failed art academy student.
Around 1880, the family had already sensed that Van Gogh was mentally ill and tried to send him to a psychiatric hospital. The family did not want to see Van Gogh suffer and eventually gave up on this idea.
Why is Van Gogh mentally problematic?
The point is that he had many anomalies in his missionary profession: in January 1879 he accepted a missionary job in the small village of Bolinage in the southern part of Belgium. He gave away almost everything he had, even giving up the house he had rented in a confectionery shop to a homeless man, and moved himself to live in a slum, sleeping on haystacks every day, so that he could be with these miners not only mentally but physically. When the mine area was cataclysmic, Van Gogh tried his best to share the plight of the miners, even tearing his clothes as bandages, covering himself from head to toe with soot every day, and people became very sloppy.
This behavior clearly went beyond the level of religious fanaticism, and the local church considered Van Gogh to be clearly mentally abnormal, and advised his parents to take him home to recuperate.
In 1881, after a period of recuperation at his parents' home, Van Gogh recovered mentally. During this time, his cousin came to visit the family. My cousin's husband had just passed away, and she was living alone with her 8-year-old son. Van Gogh unexpectedly fell in love with his cousin and proposed to him. However, the cousin had no love for Van Gogh and also thought that she was 7 years older than Van Gogh and could not become a husband and wife at all, so she categorically refused.
Although Van Gogh did not give up and repeatedly begged to pursue his cousin, it caused the dissatisfaction of his cousin's parents. My cousin's parents think, not to mention the incompatibility of the two in all aspects, Van Gogh is fashionable and unable to support himself, how can he afford to marry a wife? Not to mention that he also has certain mental problems.
And some of Van Gogh's actions also frightened his cousin's family: in desperation, Van Gogh wrote on his hand "Let me be with her for as long as I can endure on the fire", and put his hand on the lamp to roast. The cousin's father was shocked and quickly extinguished the fire and saved him.
Van Gogh, who has been in love in a row, began to give up on himself. He had a quarrel with his cousin, Mov, with whom he had always had a good relationship, and rejected his parents' suggestion that he should continue his mission. Cousin Moff soon discovers that Van Gogh is fooling around with Sean, an alcoholic prostitute, ignoring his warnings.
As a result, Van Gogh was admitted to the hospital three months later because of gonorrhea.
During the treatment, Van Gogh was sparked by the pain and creative enthusiasm, and completed his first oil painting "The Potato Eater" in the hospital.
Although Van Gogh was very satisfied with the paintings, his relatives and friends who had a certain degree of artistic accomplishment were shocked by the strange style of oil painting.
Van Gogh never completed a painting course systematically, and many relatives and friends thought that he could not draw at all, but could only paint these alternative things.
A few months later, the prostitute Sean gave birth to a boy named William. William later considered himself Van Gogh's son, which was not the case. Moff introduced that when Van Gogh met Sean, the latter was pregnant and had a 5-year-old daughter. Later DNA tests confirmed that Wilhelm was not related to Van Gogh.
When Van Gogh's father found out about these scandals, he angrily asked his son to break off his friendship with Sean. Van Gogh began to refuse his father's orders, but was immediately financially blocked. Van Gogh was unable to make ends meet, and after one year he was forced to separate from Sean and find their own way to survive.
Ironically, Sean, a prostitute who later returned to her old job, lived much longer than Van Gogh. Twenty-one years after the two broke up, Sean committed suicide by jumping into the river, by which time Van Gogh had been dead for 14 years.
Van Gogh was forced to return home, and later went into seclusion to work in seclusion, relying mainly on his brother Theo financially.
Theo was a relatively successful dealer who cared deeply about his brother Van Gogh, and the two were very close.
Like his brother, Theo also has some mental problems, which suggests that the Van Gogh family may have inherited mental illnesses.
At this stage, Van Gogh's life was still not smooth. In the first year of creation, Van Gogh's life would have changed. He and the neighbor's daughter, a woman 10 years older than him, fell in love with each other. This woman had always accompanied Van Gogh and was very supportive of his painting work. The two fell in love and decided to get married. However, both parents were adamantly opposed.
In the eyes of the year, it was shocking that the man was 10 years younger than the woman. For this reason, this woman committed suicide by poisoning in grief, but fortunately was sent to the hospital in time by Van Gogh to save her life.
Even so, the relationship ended, and the next year Van Gogh's father died, which was a double whammy.
During this period, Van Gogh also tried to sell his paintings to make a living, but was mercilessly ridiculed and despised by the market.
In 1885, Van Gogh exhibited for the first time in his brother Theo's gallery, including his first oil painting "The Potato Eater" and several nice portraits of peasants.
The paintings were exhibited for a long time, and no one bought them at all. Theo believed that Van Gogh's paintings were too dark for mainstream society to accept.
As a result, Van Gogh could only rely on Theo's funding to make a living, and he painted like crazy during this period.
He eats only bread, drinks coffee, and smokes cigarettes every year, but also often drinks heavily. He followed the advice of his brother Theo and tried to study the mainstream painting style at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp and Paris. It's just that Van Gogh was extremely resistant to this, and in the end he gave up his studies hastily.
At this point, Van Gogh didn't have much time left, and perhaps he felt it too.
Van Gogh began to paint like crazy, although he did not sell a single one.
Van Gogh's mental problems also became more and more serious, and he once cut off his ear and was admitted to a mental hospital.
In August 1888, Van Gogh painted the "Sunflowers" series, and in 1889 he completed "Starry Night", "In Jarre's Bedroom" during the period of the Spiritual Rim.
At this point, Van Gogh became somewhat famous. However, almost all mainstream writers have a great disdain for Van Gogh. Some people bluntly said that Van Gogh could not paint at all, and more painters scolded Van Gogh's style, thinking that he was blaspheming art and insulting the reputation of the painter.
However, a very small number of master painters, including Claude Monet, considered Van Gogh a genius. Van Gogh's genius itself was a tragedy, and this kind of super-strong thinking could not be accepted by the world at that time.
Van Gogh didn't pay much attention to everything in the outside world, but still devoted himself to his own creations.
Finally, on July 27, 1890, at the age of 37, Van Gogh committed suicide with a revolver.
Why did Van Gogh commit suicide?
It's not entirely because of loneliness, poverty, and an unrecognized life.
Apparently many psychiatrists believe that Van Gogh suffered from a mental illness called bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is characterized by the fact that patients sometimes have high emotions, such that Van Gogh has an extreme enthusiasm for painting, can forget to sleep and eat for many days, and even cut off his own Eudo in excitement. Sometimes, however, the patient is depressed and does nothing, like a walking corpse.
The most frightening thing about bipolar disorder is that it can cause severe suicidal tendencies when the patient is depressed.
Van Gogh may have ended his life at the age of 37 because of illness.
After Van Gogh's death, his younger brother Theo was so grief-stricken that he also suffered from serious mental problems and died half a year later.
The two brothers were finally buried together, and they could be regarded as companions.
During Van Gogh's 10-year career, he completed about 2,100 paintings, including about 870 oil paintings.
However, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyards of Arles, was sold. First, the reason why the painting was sold was the result of the secret operation of his younger brother Theo. Wanting to encourage his brother's work, Theo used a number of methods to get the Belgian artist and collector Anna Bocchi to buy the painting for 400 francs. In fact, the Bochi siblings were both good friends of Theo. Without Theo's covert help, the painting would not have been sold.
There were so many paintings created, the hut where Van Gogh lived was stuffed with oil paintings, and he knew that no one would buy them, but he couldn't stop his creation.
What Van Gogh didn't know was that "The Red Vineyard of Arles," which he had sold for a favor, would cost more than $100 million today.
After Van Gogh's death, his style of painting was gradually accepted by the world. Many artists agree with Monet's view that Van Gogh was a great genius.
Ordinary art lovers believe that Van Gogh's paintings have an indescribable spirituality that seems to pull you into a magical mood in a painting, and then there is a strong emotional resonance that makes you unable to extricate yourself.
Many people look at Van Gogh's paintings and are moved to tears. The viewer can experience the strong feelings of Van Gogh when he painted, a kind of love for the world and life, a thirst for pure emotions and an indescribable loneliness.
Today, many computer enthusiasts will use computer technology to make classical oil paintings into moving pictures.
Interestingly, Van Gogh's paintings are particularly suitable for this, because the colors in the paintings are inherently fluid.
In the West and East Asia today, Van Gogh has a high status.
In the famous British drama "Doctor Who", there is an episode in which the male protagonist travels to Van Gogh's era and takes him to the future to see his great achievements and the world's recognition of him.
The director of the museum said to Van Gogh (he didn't know it was Van Gogh): Van Gogh is the greatest painter in my mind, not one of them, he has achieved no one before!
Interestingly, Van Gogh in the play can see alien invisible monsters that ordinary humans can't see. Because Van Gogh was very good at observing flowing colors, he could see subtle color changes.
In the well-known Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's "Dream", there is also such a plot: the male protagonist who loves painting admires Van Gogh's oil paintings in the museum, but walks into the world of painting and meets Van Gogh.
In this perfect world created by Van Gogh, there are also imperfections.
In the scene of the famous painting "Arles Suspension Bridge with Women Washing Clothes", the village women who wash clothes tell the male protagonist to be careful of Van Gogh, who has lived in an insane asylum, and then burst into laughter.
Even these village women, no one can afford Van Gogh.
However, Van Gogh didn't care, his body and mind were completely immersed in his creation.
What's even more interesting is that the Japanese anime Detective Conan theatrical version has an episode called "The Sunflower of Karmic Fire".
The plot revolves around the snatching of Van Gogh's works and the 7 "Sunflowers" scattered around the world.
Van Gogh spent his short life as a loser and a wretched wretch, ostracized and ridiculed by society, but recognized after his death.
History not only likes to play tricks on frivolous and arrogant, virtuous and talentless, but also likes to play tricks on those kind and pure hearts!
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