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Jiang Xun's explanation of Van Gogh is both appropriate and inconsistent.
Jiang Xun has enough aesthetic ability. He studied painting in Europe in his early years. He once followed in Van Gogh's footsteps and admired the wheat fields where crows danced in the painter's works. He once stood under Al's starry sky and heard the sound of insects. He once walked into the yellow house where the painter lived.
However, Jiang Xun's aesthetic research is not limited to painting, but also includes A Dream of Red Mansions, Tang and Song poems and so on. Wen Ya, a scholar in the past, spoke in detail in a slow tone, which was somewhat inconsistent with Van Gogh's wild vitality.
In short, the collision between the two people, such as white porcelain plum soup in summer, crushed ice hitting the wall, is crisp.
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This book "Jiang Xun Cracks the Beauty of Van Gogh" is divided into two parts: the scenes of Jiang Xun and Van Gogh.
In "Jiang Xun Live", nine paintings by Van Gogh are selected for interpretation, which is only the quantity and depth of popular science, and elegant literary talent also makes people feel fragrant.
For example, this twisted but full of tension "Starry Sky".
On a hot summer night, Van Gogh couldn't sleep. He stood at the window of a mental hospital and looked out.
I saw "a crescent moon on the upper right, with a yellow halo around the decorative gold periphery."
"Under the sky, a deep white cloud depends on the rolling mountains. Bai Yueguang flows in the blue mountains. The quiet village below, the low house, and occasionally a few sleepless lights are so sparse compared with the stars in the sky. "
"Van Gogh quickly captured the ever-changing light on the canvas. The flow of light determines the level of color. There is no moment, it is a brand-new scene. He didn't have time to reconcile, so he splashed paint on the canvas directly with a pipe. "
With the ecstasy of talking to the stars all over the sky, he heard the sound of stars flowing, the sound of clouds rolling and the echo of inner redemption.
He sat next to me, frantic and frightened, which made people feel sad.
When I read Jiang Xun Live, I had this illusion. This is the scene created by the painter, and Jiang Xun's interpretation puts the reader in that eternal moment.
This is also the "scene" that Jiang Xun enjoyed standing in front of the painting, and it is also the view of the aesthetic tutor on the master artists, such as the white porcelain plum soup in summer.
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In fact, Van Gogh's paintings are highly recognizable, as long as you look at the brush strokes.
Because it is a "live broadcast", Jiang Xun's interpretation is different from ordinary popular science stickers. What he wants to say is not only the pixels seen on the screen, but also the fluency in printed matter.
More is standing in front of this picture, the texture of the paper, the thickness of the pigment, the strength and depth of the brush strokes.
Jiang Xun said that Van Gogh's paintings are not pen-and-ink paintings, and most of the time, the pigments are directly squeezed on the drawing paper and then slightly smeared, so when you look at the paintings on the spot, you will find that Van Gogh's works will be very heavy.
Without detailed description, Van Gogh captured various colors in a short time, making the calm night sky show flowing brilliance and abnormal tension.
This painting has become the pinnacle of artistic achievement, one of the most famous representatives of contemporary culture, and it is also the most copied and printed oil painting.
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Van Gogh is probably the most narcissistic painter. He painted 35 self-portraits in his life, reflecting his 37-year-old life track.
In the second part of this book, Jiang Xun tells the story of Van Gogh's life interspersed with paintings.
Van Gogh was born in a priest's family, and his family background. He was determined to become a priest to save the suffering soul. He went to a theological seminary to receive formal education. After obtaining the qualification as a priest, he went to preach in the mines in Holland. He was absent from work for food and shelter, and felt very painful. He was ready to dedicate his life to God.
In the meantime, painting is just one of his hobbies. He hopes to record people's hard lives with a brush and try to save them.
However, at that time, his church thought that Van Gogh, who was in rags, was too disgraceful. After several warnings, he finally cut off his pastor status, but the belief of "redemption" took root in Van Gogh's heart and accompanied him for the rest of his life.
When he came to Paris, he was influenced by Impressionism, and the colors of his paintings gradually became clear. In order to capture the instantaneous color, he squeezed the pigment directly on the canvas and daubed it a little bit, which was bold but gorgeous.
Different from other petty-bourgeois impressionist painters, Van Gogh saw the abandoned farmland behind the emerging capitalism, and he was deeply attached to the land.
The high consumption in Paris made Van Gogh unbearable. He came to the small town of arles, where he waited for his close friend Gauguin, a master of art as famous as Van Gogh.
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Van Gogh prepared the best room with windows for Gauguin. The furniture in the room is carefully arranged: chairs, beds, pillows, quilts, cosmetics ... even his own paintings.
At this time, Van Gogh painted Sunflowers, which spread all over the world. It is full of enthusiasm and sunshine, just like his mood at the moment. He hung the painting in Gauguin's upcoming room and eagerly looked forward to it.
It's always a good story for the masters in history to get together, but in reality, two painters, like two bright stars, have their own trajectories and their own brilliance. After getting together, the heat will burn each other.
Gauguin gradually discovered that Van Gogh was abnormal. He often stands by the bed and watches himself sleep. He followed himself silently with a razor. ...
Gauguin left Arles and crossed the ocean to the original Tahiti.
Van Gogh cut off his own ear.
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Van Gogh, who had his ears cut off, was calm, but his neighbors made waves. They reported Van Gogh to a mental hospital.
Van Gogh stayed at home in the hospital. He sat in the ward all day, watching the bright dawn through the only window, listening to the gorgeous music of the stars, and painting the starry night, the eternal mystery of the universe.
He also saw the end of his life, and even drew his own dying scene. In his "The Crow in the Rye", the waves of wheat blown by the wind and the crows flying in surprise seem to direct the end of their lives.
Some people say that genius is on the left, madman is on the right, and there is a mysterious line in the middle.
Jiang Xun said:
"Life has only a small window, the only window, so he saw a miracle.
Is it because there are too many windows that we can't see the miracle?
Is it because we can't keep a lonely window that we can't see the miracle? "
We learned to compromise in reality. Only 2% of what we say may be true and only 2% of what we do may be honest.
And those who are 100% pure and absolute make us panic, and we jump to the conclusion that their intransigence is uncontrollable.
We call them "lunatics".
It was not until they died that we called them "geniuses".
It turns out that the boundary between "madman" and "genius" is secular fear and the "pure" gap between life and death.
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Compared with the boring and mysterious display of monographs and popular science stickers, Van Gogh's life recorded by Jiang Xun is more like a prose poem. The lines are full of heat, as if touching the fiery life of Van Gogh and seeing the dazzling colors and brilliance in his paintings.
In the book, he selected 50 works, which run through Van Gogh's life, making these water and light scattered in the long river of art converge into a unique and unforgettable red beach.
Rao is an artistic white, and he has never even seen his beloved Van Gogh. After reading it, he can quickly identify Van Gogh's works from a large number of paintings.
Because those paintings have the hope of redemption, the heat of life and the purity of spirit.
It's too dazzling.
"You want to know his death so much, but how much do you know about his life?"
Jiang Xun cracked the beauty of Van Gogh, a good introductory guide.