Vincent Wilhelm van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. Born into a family of Protestant priests, he was a pioneer of Post-Impressionism and deeply influenced twentieth-century art, especially Fauvism and Expressionism.
Van Gogh's creation uses a large number of high-purity colors, red, yellow and blue and other bright colors, the picture is very bright, and the decorative effect is strong.
He favored yellow, which he considered to be a symbol of the sun, a symbol of life force and strength, representing light and heat.
"Night Cafe"
Van Gogh pays attention to abstraction and generalization, the use of large color blocks, borrows the creative techniques of Japanese printmaking, applies colors to the canvas, increases the thickness and three-dimensional sense of the picture, makes the object structure of the picture prominent, and the image structure is strong and powerful.
In the pursuit of color patch juxtaposition, Van Gogh found that the application of black and white colors can buffer contrast and coordinate the effect of color.
The Sower
The picture is divided into two parts, the upper half is yellow, the lower part is purple, when the excessive contrast of yellow and purple at the same time and stimulate the eyes, the white trouser spacing effect can make the eyes get rest, so that the lemon yellow sky and the golden sun and the purple that accounts for most of the picture are in stark contrast.
Van Gogh grasped the theme of essence in the process of modeling, and through the definition of contour lines, painted the segmentation surface with simplified, essential and vivid colors.
Van Gogh was good at using the fluctuating line as a contour line, that is, a curve, which is a kind of hot line. Fluctuations, like the waves of the sea, push wave after wave; when the tide rises, it shows passion and majesty, and when the tide sets, it is gentle and soft.
The interpretation of curves, Van Gogh's paintings are perhaps the most representative, the lines are like a tidal wave, surging majestic. It was as if you could hear the sound of the waves from the whirlpool, and hear the ups and downs of a lifetime.
"Starry Sky"
Van Gogh's lines are very short and thick, urgent, superimposed on each other, and the pigments are thick and even cracked, such lines are full of enthusiasm, coupled with the twisting form, very expressive.
After Van Gogh, Neo-Impressionist artists advocated juxtaposing different, purely colored dots and blocks without reconciliation according to spectroscopy and scientific principles, so that the chroma and brightness of the color could achieve obvious effects. The first color the viewer sees is the visual intermediate color. Maximize the advantages of using contours to define colors.
Van Gogh took natural things as the theme, often extracting the desired color in nature as needed, so that the color had a clear emotional tendency, thus associating a symbolic meaning.
The following is an excerpt from Dear Theo
In "The Potato Eaters," I try to emphasize that those who eat potatoes under the light dig the land with their hands that reach out to the plate, and that it is a manifestation of manual labor, of how honestly they earn their food.
What I want to express is the impression of a completely different way of life than we do. Therefore, I am not at all anxious to make everyone like it or appreciate it immediately.
I think a peasant girl in a dusty blue dress and vest with pins is more beautiful than a lady. Her clothes are delicately soft in color due to the wind and the sun .
However, if she wears a noble lady's costume, she loses her characteristic cuteness. A farmer dressed in denim in the field is more real than putting on a tuxedo when he goes to church on Sunday...
When I draw a sun, I want people to feel like it's spinning at an alarming speed, emitting terrifying waves of light and heat.
When I paint a wheat field, I want people to feel that the wheat is working toward their final ripening and blooming.
When I draw an apple tree, I want people to feel that the juice inside the apple is spreading the peel, and the seeds in the core are struggling to bear fruit.
When I paint a man, I want to paint his gushing life.
If there were no infinite, some profound, some real things in life, I wouldn't be nostalgic for life...
The movie "Beloved Van Gogh The Mystery of the Starry Sky" has been released