Gauguin's "The River Seine near the Pont d'Ienne" 65cm×92.5cm

Oil on canvas: 1875 Collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

" "The River Seine near the Pont d'Ienne" was painted in 1875. It is one of Gauguin's earliest works that we can see today. It paints a snow scene, and this subject has been painted many times by the Impressionist painters Monet and Sisley. Second-rate. Gauguin was only 27 years old at the time and was just a fledgling "amateur painter", but his use of colors was already so strange: the green sky reflected the green river, and the snow-covered river beach was a yellow, as if the whole world It's really incredible to be enveloped in a bright halo. However, how brilliantly the painter conveyed the tender tranquility between heaven and earth reflected in the snow, light, clouds and shadows. "The sky is blue, the leaves are yellow, the autumn colors are rolling, and the cold smoke is green on the waves..." It is impossible for Gauguin to have read this Song poem, but the artistic conception he wants to convey is so close to the Eastern people's emotions.

When Gauguin was a child, he lived in Lima, the capital of Peru. It was the world-famous "city without rain". There was no rainfall all year round, let alone snow. Gauguin's memory was filled with memories. Sunshine, green shade and colorful southern scenery. Therefore, when describing the snowy scenes of the European continent, Gauguin, who always regarded himself as a "foreigner", was probably full of nostalgia in his writings. In any case, his "subjectivity" in the use of color is innate and completely different from the light and shadow color mixing methods of Monet and Sisley.

Please note that the dark parts of the painting are painted with different shades of ocher, and ocher is to Gauguin just like ink is to any Chinese ink painter, it is indispensable for a moment. . This ocher color is the color of deeply plowed soil, the skin color of the sun-baked native Indians, and it can be said without exaggeration that it is the color flowing in Gauguin's blood.