This was the last painting of Van Gogh's life.
In this painting called "Crows in the Wheat Field",
The color of the sky is dull and oppressive,
I don't know what a loud noise was a second ago,
Startled a flock of crows in a wheat field,
Rushing into the sky in a frenzied and disorderly manner.
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Later people learned that
The loud noise was the sound of Van Gogh shooting at himself.
The day was July 27, 1890.
Two days later, Van Gogh died in the arms of his younger brother Theo.
And then according to research,
Van Gogh actually had a plan before committing suicide,
He always carried the pistol on his body.
But on the day of the shooting,
He carried it on his body at the same time,
There is also a letter from "July 23" to his brother Theo.
Those dark red dots, the blood stains that fell on the letter after the shooting, are still there today.
In total, Van Gogh sent more than 800 letters to Theo during his lifetime.
Theo was his younger brother, his Bole, and his staunch patron of painting. The most heart-wrenching thing in the letter was his "money" with Theoty.
(Van Gogh's younger brother, Theo)
Theo was only a small dealer and did not have a lot of money, so Van Gogh wrote to his brother with guilt and entanglement every time. Basically this routine:
First, he kept talking about how he spent money and how to save, and then he kept making assurances that he would never easily waste every franc that his brother had worked so hard to get. If the money Dior sent him was late, he would tell him about his predicament. Say how you are using cup after cup of coffee to fill your stomach that has been empty for several days; you say that you don't even have a foot of canvas.
And all this is just to say: "I have no money."
But every now and then he had to tell Dior that although he had not yet succeeded, and that his paintings were worthless at the moment, one day his paintings would sell for 200 francs.
So, in the beginning, Van Gogh's expectation of the world was only to understand him in terms of 200 francs.
In fact, before Van Gogh's death,
He wrote two letters to his brother.
One was sent out, and one was carried with me.
The one sent out was no different from the previous letter.
however
In Van Gogh's last blood-stained letter,
He was unusual and didn't mention money anymore.
Here is an excerpt from Van Gogh's last letter:
Thank you for the letter and the 50 francs sent together. There are a lot of things I want to say to you, but I don't find it useful. I want you to face those decent gentlemen.
I've experienced happiness and sadness myself, so how you see how I affect your family, I don't think I care.
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The truth is that we can only let our work speak. However, my dear brother, there is one thing which I often tell you, and I would like to say to you again, that it comes from a mind that has gone to great lengths to try to get things as well as possible, from sincerity that only such a mind can embody. I want to say to you again: I will always see you as a different dealer. Brokered by my work, you contributed to the birth of works that stood the test of the storm.
This is what we have to face, all or at least the main thing that I have to say to you at a relatively critical juncture, and at such a juncture, between the dealers who deal with the dead works and the dealers who deal with the works of living artists, it is precisely the tension that things are very tense.
Oh, my own work, I risked my life to paint my own work, and my sanity has crossed half of it for this - it doesn't matter, the important thing is that you are not among the dealers I am talking about, I think, you can still stick to your position and act with a benevolent heart, but what then?
(This translation is from the book "The Man in the Wheat Field - Van Gogh" by the Chinese writer Lin Hesheng)
Van Gogh still hoped,
After his death, Theo,
Be able to bring these paintings to the world.
Yi Gongzi remembered that Van Gogh said in a letter from Theo:
"Everyone has a fire in their heart, but people who pass by see only smoke. But there is always someone, there is always someone who can see the fire and come over and accompany me."
He is obstinate to the world.
Unfortunately, in my lifetime,
He didn't have time,
Saw the man coming over.
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