The inspirational story of the madman painter Van Gogh 1 In the history of European painting, Van Gogh's story is more attractive than Van Gogh's art. Before his death, his paintings were ignored by the society and only one painting was sold in his life. He lived on his brother Theo all his life. After his death, descendants gave him various honors, and the selling price of his paintings rose step by step. Because of this, Van Gogh is a painter who devoted his life to creation, pursued true love and truth crazily, and had no worldly affectation!
Van Gogh was the main painter of post-impressionist painting in Europe at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. Van Gogh was born in a peasant family in 1853. His father is a country priest, and his two uncles are art dealers. Van Gogh's artistic starting point first came from his uncle's shop. Little Van Gogh has beautiful red hair, but he looks ugly and has a strange temper. He doesn't like to associate with people, but he is very emotional. Rude, willful, shy. One of his uncles has shops in Paris and London, dealing in large-scale works of art, and intends to let Van Gogh inherit his business in the future. Van Gogh also went to shops in London and Paris for business. At this time, he was a diligent young man with a bright future, but later he lost hope and interest in his work because of personal setbacks.
Van Gogh used to be a shop assistant, teacher and missionary, and he was very sympathetic to the poor. At the age of 27, he began to paint and decided to be a farmer painter. His figure paintings also depict working people. Some of his early works, such as The Potato Eater, described the poor life of farmers. Later, he left the countryside to work in coal mines, so he painted workers. Later, when he came to Paris, he came into contact with impressionist painters, and then he painted landscapes and the lives of the lower classes in the city. No matter whether he painted farmers, workers or urban poor, Van Gogh, like Bob Luger and Millay, both farmers' painters started from the humanitarian spirit. His father and several uncles are missionaries, and he himself is a religious man. Only after he was fired as a worker's representative in a mine did he doubt the existence of God. Van Gogh sympathized with the poor from the fraternity of Jesus, but he could only help the poor with his poor food and enjoy a piece of black bread with them. In addition, painting is used to describe the poor life and hard work of the poor. He painted these paintings not so much for ideological propaganda as to express what he wanted to express in his heart. Because he himself has no desire to carry out revolutionary propaganda. Besides, he only sold one painting in his life. Few people could see his paintings at that time.
Van Gogh's paintings were not understood by people at that time, which doomed him to live a wandering and miserable life all his life. Van Gogh's wandering life is closely related to his works. Traveling abroad can usually bring him new inspiration. From 1869 to 1876, when Van Gogh was an art reproduction clerk, he had many disputes with many customers who lacked artistic accomplishment because he insisted on not selling bad paintings. Van Gogh witnessed the poor life of miners when he was a temporary priest in the Berenich mining area. Although he was in rags, he helped the workers' families pick up coal. The workers in the mining area regarded him as an angel of God, but the superiors thought that this style insulted the dignity of the preacher and excommunicated him. Van Gogh's angelic kindness, innocence and hatred of evil made him unable to adapt to the social life full of evil.
When living in Holland, Van Gogh painted many miners' lives and painted them with gloomy colors. 1886, he moved to Paris where his younger brother lived and began to work. During this period, he wrote many touching letters to his brother, talking about his life and works. After knowing pissarro, Heineken, Gauguin, Bona and others, his creation gradually changed.
Emotionally, Van Gogh was also hit by love all his life. Even with a kind heart, his almost ugly appearance and stubborn personality, as well as his extremely reckless behavior when he is emotional, all make the women he pursues daunting. 1883, 39-year-old Maggie finally fell in love with Van Gogh, but because of her parents' resolute opposition, Maggie committed suicide. Although she attempted suicide, Van Gogh was ostracized by society and had to leave sadly.
A series of self-portraits reflecting real life, in order to expose the inner anxiety in the process of drifting, use bold and free colors, just to show personality. The characteristics of these works are that the background is composed of yellow, green, blue and lavender, and they also try to describe the tension that stirs and oppresses with graphite, pencil, charcoal and watercolor.
Van Gogh had a rough life and a rich emotional life, so he had to vent his inner feelings in his paintings. Therefore, we can see that his works are characterized by enthusiasm and bold brushwork.
In his life, Van Gogh had no friends. Only his brother Theo can understand and care about him. However, Van Gogh longed for pure and beautiful friendship from the bottom of his heart. He traveled alone in Antwerp, Brussels and Eden, and continued to learn painting with passion. At that time, he lived a sad wandering life like a wild dog. He came to Paris at the age of 33, and he rented a house with Theo.
In the next two years, Van Gogh was very weak because of poverty and overwork. He listened to his brother's advice and rented a house in arles in the south of France. There, Van Gogh created many brilliant wheat fields and cypress trees burning in the hot sun. Soon, he met Gauguin, who was very speculative. In order to paint together, he called Gauguin to Al and spent more than two months together. But it didn't last long. One day, Van Gogh had a mental attack and they had an argument. Gauguin talked about returning to Paris. Van Gogh was so sad that he attacked Gauguin with a razor that day. Gauguin was not hurt, but he was taken aback and ran away. The next day, I sneaked back and saw blood all over the floor. Van Gogh cut off an ear and fainted to the ground. He wrapped his ears in paper and said he would take them to an acquaintance. The friendship between the two ended like this.
Van Gogh's mental illness will often recur in the future. People sent Van Gogh to a prison in the city for a while. After his illness slowed down, according to his hope, he entered the insane asylum in San Remy, and used a room there as a studio, where he was free to go in and out and paint near Shan Ye. After living in a madhouse for nearly a year, he is out of place with a real madman. Obviously, this has brought a new shock to his mind. Worried about this situation, Theo asked Dr. Orwell on the outskirts of Paris to take Van Gogh in, so Van Gogh continued to paint a lot while doing private medical treatment.
Illness has been bothering him, and he painted many suffocating things. Sometimes, he really drinks a big bucket of paint and runs around town. However, this is also a relatively happy period in his life. His paintings began to be praised by art critics, and some people wanted to buy his works. He made a final sprint and painted endless fields, towns and fields.
The inspirational story of the mad painter Van Gogh 2 Great men have great love. Although their lives are very poor and humble, they look at the world with their hearts and affection, and at the same time bring themselves to a higher and broader spiritual field. 1886 One evening in February, Vincent Van Gogh, a poor Dutch painter, was forced to come to the door of a cheap small painting shop in the biting snow because he could not pay the rent. He almost begged his boss to open the door, hoping to buy one of his newly completed paintings.
Yes, this young, unknown painter is too poor.
He lives alone in a foreign land and has no relatives or friends around him.
Although he spends 14- 16 hours painting every day, none of his paintings can be sold.
Because of this, he suffered discrimination and cold reception from the world.
In fact, he can't even meet the most basic needs of life. In a letter, he called for:
"I'm very unhappy these days. I spent all my money on Thursday. For four days, I lived on 23 cups of coffee and a little bread, and I still owed others money to buy bread. There is only one crust left tonight ... However, the creation attracted me deeply, and I painted my oil painting like a coolie ... "
Life is like this. It's so unfair, young painters are so pitiful and helpless!
He knew that if he couldn't sell another painting this winter, he would have to be driven out by the landlord and sleep on the snowy street ... Fortunately, the owner of the small painting shop reluctantly bought one of his paintings and gave him five francs. For van Gogh, this is the greatest favor. He clutched the five francs tightly and hurried out of the small painting shop.
However, on his way home from this snowstorm, he suddenly saw a little girl in rags who had just walked out of St. Lhasa church.
The little girl is very beautiful, but from her poor and helpless eyes, the young painter can see at a glance that she is also hungry and cold.
"Poor child!" Van Gogh looked at the pleading girl with melancholy eyes and murmured, "It's true that snow falls on the earth and all the poor people are suffering, but those rich people won't understand these things."
When thinking like this, the young painter completely forgot that the landlord was staying at his residence at this time, waiting for him to go back and pay the rent.
Almost without hesitation, he gave all the five francs he had just got to the strange and poor little girl.
He even felt that he had given too little help to the little girl, so he left the little girl with a full face of shame and fled and disappeared into the cold snow ... Four years later, Vincent Van Gogh, an artist who had tasted the hunger and desolation of the world and the loneliness and poverty of life, passed away painfully.
This poor painter, he only lived to be 37 years old!
Van Gogh's painting achievements before his death have never been recognized by the world, but after his death, his works have become dazzling treasures of our whole world.
No one would have thought that his paintings sold for only 5 francs in the winter of 1886. A few years later, in the ninth gallery of an auction house in Paris, someone offered thousands of francs to buy it! Anthony Robbins said: "success is what everyone wants." If you want your dreams to come true, you must regard success as a process of life, a way of life, a spiritual hobby and a survival strategy. " As long as a person constantly improves himself, improves his comprehensive quality, has a wise mind, a pair of diligent hands, and has the favor of opportunities, he will certainly reach the peak of success.
It's a very hot day. The sun shines on the wheat fields near Orville-Francois, France. A group of black crows wandered up and down in the air, while sunflowers were in full bloom in the summer heat. However, a funeral is being held in this vivid scene. The vicar of the parish did not attend. There are very few people in undertaker, and only one person seems to really feel sad for the dead. Theodorus van Gogh, the younger brother of the deceased, cried all the time on the way to the funeral, because he had a long and complicated relationship with the eccentric deceased who only signed "Vincent" in his works of art. He admired the works of the deceased, endured the strange emotions of the deceased before his death, and once funded and cared for the deceased from the economy and life.
Just a few days ago, Vincent Van Gogh left home, walked into this wheat field that he had shown many times on canvas in a colorful and random way, and then shot a bullet into his chest with a gun. Two days later, he died in his brother's arms at the age of 37. Van Gogh struggled with poverty, illness, loneliness and occasional madness. But he is not a complete failure. He once sold one of his paintings.
Childhood-Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30th, 1853 in Sindel, Grut, a Dutch town near Belgium. He has red hair and freckles, and is the eldest of six children.
When I was a child, Van Gogh was a gifted but unusual student. At the age of 1 1, he was sent to a boarding school 10 miles away, where he felt deeply lonely. Van Gogh studied languages at school and began to practice sketching. His paintings show such skillful skills that many years later, art historians are still arguing about their authenticity. Some people don't believe that these paintings will be written by a teenager. However, Van Gogh left school in March 1868, before his 15 birthday. Van Gogh began to get tired of school life. He later left school with Theo, who was four years younger than him.
Make a living-Vincent Van Gogh
Fortunately, Van Gogh's extended family believed in family cohesion. His uncle, Saint, is a rich art dealer. He helped him find a job in a famous art company called Gubil. Van Gogh began to sell various prints created by many painters.
At the same time, Van Gogh suffered his first heartbreaking setback in love. He fell madly in love with Agni royle, the daughter of the landlord 19 years old, and proposed to her. When she told Van Gogh that she was secretly engaged to someone, Van Gogh pursued her more enthusiastically. Royle's indifference plunged Van Gogh into severe depression, and he even told Theo that his love for painting had disappeared. He has a new hobby-becoming a priest like his father.
Van Gogh spent the next four years studying and spreading the gospel. Unable to enter the famous Amsterdam Society of Gods, he went to a school in Belgium, but dropped out three months later. At this time, Van Gogh became a non-professional evangelist and began to serve a group of poor miners. He lives with the workers-sleeping on straw, eating potatoes and wearing rags. Many people think he is crazy. His father told him not to fall into fanaticism, and his younger brother advised him to learn a trade, but Van Gogh's response was to cut off all contact with his family for a year (although he still accepted the living expenses quietly remitted to him by his younger brother through his father).
As a representative of impressionism in the late19th century, Van Gogh is undoubtedly immortal. Van Gogh was down and out before his death, and his behavior was crazy enough to cut off his left ear. At the age of 37, he shot himself after finishing the famous Sunflower. Van Gogh only sold a red vineyard before his death, but after his death, his works became the capital for billionaires to show off. At the end of last century, Van Gogh's works sold for 70 million to 80 million dollars at auction. Picasso once said of Van Gogh: "This man is either crazy or the best among us."
In fact, in the Ming Dynasty in China more than 300 years before Van Gogh, there was a figure of Van Gogh, which was strikingly similar to Van Gogh's experience. This man is Xu Wei who opened up a new world of freehand brushwork in Ming and Qing Dynasties and even in modern times:
Xu Wei was born in Shanyin County (now Shaoxing) in Ming Dynasty. His father died a hundred days after he was born. 14 years old, my mother died again and was raised by my uncle Xu Huai. Xu Wei was clever and witty since childhood. The Biography of Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty said that he could imitate Yang Xiong's solution to the tide in the Han Dynasty when he was in his teens, and wrote "Stone Wounds", which was quite suitable for Confucianism. At the age of 2/kloc-0, he was already famous, but Xu Wei was rebellious by nature and especially hated stereotyped writing which was similar to exam-oriented education at that time. He took the imperial examination eight times and failed again and again until 4 1. In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, he entered the shogunate of Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang Province, and assisted Hu Zongxian in resisting the enemy, making extraordinary contributions. At that time, the Governor's Office was very imposing, and ordinary officials were afraid to clench their fists in front of Hu Zongxian for fear of being convicted. Xu Wei always wears a black scarf and talks to Kan Kan about it. No one looks at it.
After Hu Zongxian was convicted, Xu Wei ended his five-year acting career. The horror of political persecution and the darkness of officialdom struggle greatly stimulated his spirit until he was completely insane. Van Gogh cut off his left ear, while Xu Wei stabbed his ear several inches deep with a big cone. Fortunately, it's not fatal. Van Gogh committed suicide in the wheat field, while Xu Wei accidentally killed his remarried wife in madness and was trapped in prison for 8 years.
From the screen guest to the prisoner, the sudden ups and downs in life have made Xu Wei deeply understand life. After he got out of prison, he devoted himself to writing to vent his cynicism. Although his spirit has returned to normal, but "angry and arrogant", it is difficult to send himself away, so he is unruly and addicted to drinking and having fun. In his later years, Xu Wei's life was quite embarrassing. He made a living by writing poetry, calligraphy and painting, and fell into the situation of "unable to break the disadvantages and no longer easy to sleep".
Xu Wei reflected his bumpy experience in his works. Regardless of poetry, drama, painting and calligraphy, he is full of a strange passion from content to form, "knocking down the wisdom and courage of his life and opening up the eternal soul" and becoming the most outstanding writer and artist in the late Ming Dynasty. He claimed: "My book is the first, my poem is the second, my writing is the third, and my painting is the fourth." But the real pioneer school influenced later generations, and the most outstanding achievement was painting. Van Gogh was a representative of Impressionism in the late19th century, but Xu Wei created a new style of freehand brushwork in water 300 years earlier than Van Gogh, forming a far-reaching "green school", which seems to have the same effect.
Xu's paintings are either lyrical or sentimental, and they do not seek shape but survival. People, landscapes and flowers and birds are all good at it, especially flower and bird painting. The only thing Van Gogh sold before he died was The Red Vineyard. Interestingly, Xu Wei's famous masterpiece is the ink grape map, which is very unique in the world. As it happens, the vines of this "Ink Grape Map" are scattered, the branches and leaves are scattered, and the fruit is crystal clear and flashy, just like a pear flower rain. The first poem wrote: "Half-life is full of depression, and the evening breeze is whistling in self-study. There is nowhere to sell the pearls at the bottom of the pen, so throw them in the wild vines! "
The scholar is old, but his ambition is unfulfilled, and he only ends up with a bleak ending of "an independent study blown by the evening breeze". The "pearl at the bottom of the pen" in that painting, or Xu Wei, who calls himself an "Ivy Taoist", wept with blood!
Another representative work of Xu Wei, Miscellaneous Flowers, is a full volume of thirteen kinds of flowers and fruits in four seasons, which is magnificent and accomplished in one go. From left to right, there are moist peony, stout pomegranate, bright white lotus, towering phoenix tree, aloof chrysanthemum, plump autumn melon, full pod, thin crape myrtle, chaotic grape, dripping plantain, pretty plum blossom, light narcissus and sparse bamboo strips, which combine the flowers and fruits of the four seasons in one game and pour out the author's "opening the ages"
Only seven or eight years after Van Gogh's death did the world begin to worship him. Xu Wei was revered 20 years after his death. After Yuan Hongdao, the leader of the "Public Security School", wrote a biography of a famous figure-Biography of Xu Wenchang, more and more people like Xu Wei's paintings, including Badashanren and Zheng Banqiao. Zheng Banqiao specially engraved the seal of "Zheng Xie, the lackey of Xu Qingteng" to show his sincere respect for Xu Wei. Qi Baishi, a master of modern Chinese painting, once said, "I hate grinding ink and arranging paper on the green vine 300 years ago."
Van Gogh and Xu Wei were extremely lost and almost crazy, creating a new world of painting! Perhaps it is deprivation that gives gifts; If you lose something, you have it!