Van Gogh's greatness lies in the fact that a hundred years apart in time and space make us feel the beauty he has passed on. Proud and passionate, like the sunflowers of Arles.
Self-Portrait, Van Gogh, Netherlands, 1889 oil painting
There is a fire in everyone's heart
People passing by only saw smoke
Are you the one who knows Van Gogh?
Van Gogh
As the most famous painter in the world
He was a pioneering painter
Deeply influenced twentieth-century art
During the last decade of his life
More than 2,000 paintings were created
It includes about 900 oil paintings and 1100 drawings
Cypress, Netherlands Van Gogh oil painting
"Cypress" Van Gogh sketch
People who don't understand him
Always ask where Van Gogh's paintings are good?
And the people who understand him
See his helpless life
In addition to loneliness or loneliness
What is so good about Van Gogh's paintings?
Red vineyards in Arles
The Road with Cypresses Van Gogh Oil painting Auduro Kulla Muller Collection, Netherlands, 1890
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· Unique painting style ·
The early Van Gogh only painted in gray and dark colors
Until he met Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in Paris
Van Gogh incorporated their vivid colors and painting styles
Created his unique personal painting style
Starry Night, Netherlands Van Gogh, June 1890 Oil painting 73.7 cm x 92.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Starry Night" As one of the representative works of the expressive post-impressionist painter Van Gogh, this painting has a strong brush stroke. The main color blue in the painting represents an unhappy, gloomy feeling. Very thick strokes represent melancholy. The scene in the painting is a scene looking out the window. The tree in the painting is a cypress tree, but it is painted like a black tongue of fire, straight up to the clouds, which makes people feel uneasy. The sky is textured like a vortex galaxy with numerous star points, while the Moon appears in the form of a dusky lunar eclipse. Throughout the painting, the village at the bottom is painted with straight, thick and short lines, showing a kind of tranquility; but the rough and curved lines in the upper part produce a strong contrast, and in this highly exaggerated deformation and strong visual contrast, the painter's restless emotions and psychedelic imagery world are reflected. During his lifetime, Van Gogh greatly admired the "Kanagawa Surf" in the Japanese ukiyo-e "Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Kanagawa", and the swirling nebula painting style of the sky in "Starry Night" ("Starry Sky", aka "Starry Night Sky") is considered to be a reference and incorporate elements of "Kanagawa Surf".
"Night Outdoor Cafe"
Van Gogh, who loved late at night, had two works depicting the starry sky during the Arles period, this one and "The Night Open Air Café". In these two works, the stars twinkling in the turquoise night sky are particularly eye-catching. This "starry night sky" painted in the early days of Saint-Remy (June 1889) is Van Gogh's world feeling buried deep in the depths of his soul. Each large and small star swirled in the night sky, and the crescent moon also formed a whirlpool, and the nebula and ridges were like a giant dragon squirming. The dark green-brown cypress tree is like a giant flame, swirling upward from the depths of the earth; On the mountainside, slender church minarets stretched uneasily into the sky. Everything seems to be swirling, turning, bored, wavering, radiating brilliant colors in the night sky.... This circular motion resembles the shape of an ancient earthen vessel or a spiral pattern that adorns the surface of the earthenware. This swirling curve and swirling movement can also be seen in the art of Delacroix or Baroque, but its real source is probably derived from the human subconscious, which contributed to Van Gogh's primitive consciousness, first, from the resonance brought to him by the peasants' conquest of the earth by labor, and his admiration for Delacroix, and the third is the grasp of the compositional themes of the Japanese ukiyo-e painter Hokusai and Hiroshige. In the traditional Western European painting method of distance and proximity, painters often observe the stage from the audience, observing the scenery and figures. But for Van Gogh, before his illness could strike, he felt watched by another world. He perceives that what is troubled and disturbed is not only himself or objects like sunflowers, but the vast category into which all things can be included.
This oil painting is one of the few works he painted, not by direct observation of objects, but by imagining imaginary forms and colors. His painting Starry Night Sky depicts some sleeping huts, cypresses protruding from below into the deep blue sky; some yellow stars forming a vortex with a shining orange moon, and the sky becomes active. It is the embodiment of the innermost and most tense fantasy, a creative attempt to vent strong feelings that cannot be suppressed, rather than the result of a calm study of the nature around you.
Chestnut trees blooming on Arles Avenue
Before the 19th century
Oil painting pays attention to realism
Regardless of shape, gloss, color and composition
There is a greater emphasis on precision technology
Thereafter in Monet represented the Impressionists
Emphasizes the change of light and shadow to color
However, it is still an objective reflection of reality
Van Gogh, on the other hand, painted the state of mind into the work
Incorporate subjective emotions into the painting
If the previous painter was observing with the eyes
Use your hands to draw
It can be said that Van Gogh is painting with his heart
The Indoor Café at Night is one of the works of the well-known Dutch painter Van Gogh, painted in September 1888 in Arles, Provence, France, and is currently in the collection of the Kölle müller Museum in the Netherlands.
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· Genius of Color ·
It was created in the last two years of his life
During this period, Van Gogh was deeply ill with mental illness
He eventually committed suicide at the age of 37
"Arles Suspension Bridge" When Van Gogh lived in the small town of Arles, he painted this suspension bridge to express his love for his hometown. One evening in the spring, several washerwomen washed their clothes by the river, next to them were green, yellow grass, mirror-like water was stirred up by the washerwoman, the suspension bridge in Arles was next to the washerwoman, there were no less than three colors on the bricks of the bridge, the bridge was hoisted by iron cables, the carriage was walking over the bridge, the horse's front hooves were still moving, this was the scenery of the "Arles Suspension Bridge".
Van Gogh's genius manifested himself in color
Maybe it seems like just a simple brush stroke
On closer inspection, it is precise control
The grasp and expressiveness of color are accurate and vivid
In each of his strokes, there are accurate and complete color changes and directions
This irises is one of the works of the well-known Dutch painter Van Gogh, who, in May 1889, the year before his death, entered a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy, France, and the painting is currently in the collection of the Paul Gates Art Gallery in California, USA.
Most of the picture is taken up by a patch of blue, as shallow as the sea blue, as deep as an ink mass--the condensation of difficult to speculate on sorrow and pain. Even the flowers and leaves are green and blue, and the fate is casual. The melancholy blue belonged to him, and came with life. In the composition, the overall shape of the iris flowers is "introverted", echoing a cluster of wild chrysanthemums in the upper left corner. The ochre red color of the wild chrysanthemum is in harmony with the color system of the soil. Ochre red and blue – a restless mood that always speaks melancholy in conversation. At the junction of the two, there is a white iris flower, which is large, the stem is long, and the flower bud is facing in front, which becomes the highlight of the picture. It only appears abrupt in a cluster of pieces -- a maverick and arrogant figure, as if wandering restless and melancholy and there is no road ahead. This is Van Gogh in May 1889, who left his soul on the painting.
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· Love of life ·
Van Gogh's paintings are dynamic
There is his emotion in every painting
Van Gogh's enthusiasm was like the sun
His paintings are filled with a love of life
As in the well-known "Sunflower"
You can feel the intensity of emotion from the painting
Love and dedication to art
It is permeated with a love and dedication to art
Fifteen Sunflowers in a Vase
Van Gogh's Sunflowers are like his own spells. He sometimes signed his name "vincent" on clay pots, the blue signature, conspicuous in the whole yellow brightness.
Van Gogh's formal style was very confident, the clay pot or tabletop was a few simple lines of ink, accurate, without hesitation, a form that no one had used in traditional Western academy techniques, and he boldly and freely painted the flower of his heart. Such a splendid flower, such a bright, enthusiastic flower that burns with all his life, Van Gogh named it to Gauguin.
He wanted to hang these sunflowers in Gauguin's room, he prepared the best room for Gauguin, he repeatedly described to his friends how he arranged an elegant place for Gauguin, and he hung his own sunflowers on the wall, waiting for Gauguin to arrive.
"Three Sunflowers" by Van Gogh, Netherlands
Maybe you can't really read Van Gogh yet
However, his paintings can definitely make you feel the charm of art
His work lights up your otherwise gray life
As you shuttle between cement boxes
When you are bothered by various office chores
When you are buried by various ppts and project reports
Sunflower
Maybe you'll be more nostalgic for the sunflowers that bloom in the summer
I will also linger on the cozy tavern in the midnight town
Van Gogh is the one who brings a touch of color to your life
He reminds you that there is still something good in life
Live hard and love life