Perhaps Van Gogh is the most appropriate representative of art, with infinite creativity, wild imagination, indescribable fragility and legendary charm. He brings the most profound and passionate artistic experience to every viewer in front of the painting, who rotates and rises with the painting, and is swallowed up and submerged by everything in the painting. Today I won’t talk about Van Gogh, but let’s look at his last painting “Wheatfield with Crows”.

There is no doubt that Van Gogh is an artist from the bottom. He does not belong to the coldness of the flowers in Paris, nor the elegant and luxurious emptiness of Italy. He comes from the fields, from the land, and from the innermost calling of nature and man. "Wheatfield with Crows" fully expresses all Van Gogh's ideas and characteristics without reservation. I'm not a professional art student, so I can't analyze it too much in terms of professional techniques. I just want to record my thoughts when I repeatedly admired this painting and the enthusiasm and excitement it brought me. .

When death comes, black crows fly under the dark blue sky, and golden wheat waves roll in the wind, sucking the heaven and earth into it. This is the main content of "Wheatfield with Crows". When Van Gogh saw this scene in the countryside of Auvers, his heart must have been filled with joy and excitement. Shortly after he died of illness, he saw this scene. Feeling the rotating and flying life force from nature, pain and ecstasy intertwined in his heart, he wanted to record these indescribable feelings and impressions, using paint, pens, shovels, scrapers, and the tools he was familiar with. Everything to record the greatness of this life became what we saw in "Wheat Field with Crows".

The background of the picture is a dark blue sky. The stacked short lines give the sky a rich texture, and the cyan rotating groups seem to be embedded in it, maybe it is a strong wind. The wheat fields are falling everywhere under the sky with no fixed direction. A line of green and red colors in the center of the picture divides the wheat field into two halves. It may be a path, a tree, or something else; a row of black crows lies across the middle of the picture, as if flying to the horizon or from the horizon. Come. The whole picture is full of instability and distortion, as if everything is trembling.

The brushwork in the painting is rough, and all scenes are depicted with short straight lines. An artist from the bottom, he paints as if he is working. His lines do not seem to be carefully traced with romantic feelings, but more like digging with a spoon on the saturated paint. If you use a shovel to shovel it out, it will later prove that the creation is The equipment used in this painting is a scraper, and it is the use of the scraper that causes such unevenness. This kind of short and thick lines gives all the scenery a sense of uneasiness and turmoil. The calm sky becomes thicker and different due to such lines. The thick black clouds begin to roll under such a depiction, and the whole sky seems to be a blur. A curtain is wrapped in layers of unstoppable undercurrents, and its surface appears to be turbulent along with the undercurrents that follow. The wheat below is all tilted and upright, while the wheat waves above are all turned into horizontal strokes, making the entire wheat wave without boundaries become a whole. However, the tilted wheat gives people a great sense of instability, and the entire wheat field is like a building. The building is crumbling.

This rough line drawing method gives the picture a great sense of instability, but the slight discomfort I feel when staring at the picture seems to be more than just a sense of instability. As a landscape painting, it gives me a strong sense of two-dimensionality. As mentioned before, it is difficult for me to see which direction the crows in the painting are flying, because the entire painting has no sense of distance at all. For example, a group of crows, based on visual perception, it is difficult to separate the group of crows from the sky; another example is the wheat just mentioned, why it gives me a crumbling feeling, precisely because the waves of wheat are not like far and near at all, but more like Up and down; as if there is an invisible hand compressing the entire picture on one plane.

What causes such a flat feeling? The most important thing about the sense of distance and nearness in landscape painting is the use of perspective painting, so I carefully examined the perspective painting method in this painting.

What they carry is not death, but what they carry is the life that integrates heaven and earth. The undercurrent surges in the sky and the waves of wheat roll on the ground, and the two are tied together by a group of crows with their wings, and the sky and the earth merge into one. A grand occasion where the earth shakes, an effervescent experience where all things hum in harmony. The swirling color of cyan may be the grotesque wind, but it is more like the setting sun and the early moon; the sun has not yet set, but the moon has risen. The crow in the painting flies into the moon, and its wings are held up incorrectly. Is it the new moon? Like other crows, it will also hold the moon and exist with the sun under the surging blue sky. It will even fly into the sun with the moon, just like the sky embraces the wheat waves and the wheat waves fly into the sky.

Think carefully about why Van Gogh, who always focused on perspective, suddenly smoothed out distance and near, and why every scene in the painting was spinning and trembling. Because everything is trembling together, the rotation of the wheat waves is one with the surge of the sky, the song of the sun and the moon is consistent with the flight of the crows, all the scenery is in the same trembling and rotating, and the distance between the distance and the distance is the same. Smoothing makes them press on the same plane without any difference. Everything in heaven and earth is in the same kind of restlessness, and even more so in the same kind of hot life.

I understand that at the end of his life, Van Gogh was gloomy and decadent, unrecognized, financially distressed, brothers separated and even at odds, suffering from depression, just like the suppressed agitation in the sky, like those group of people. The death message of the crow, I think of the uneasy rush of the wheat waves; but I also believe that when all the twisted and restless things in his eyes came together that afternoon, and all his pain and despair were intertwined, he felt the roar of the sky. In the harmonious life of the earth, he experienced the ultimate joy in all the pain, which came from the most authentic wild, distorted and intensely moving life of nature. At that moment, he broke through all the suffering of the world perspective and life experience. This painting is still not happy, just because happiness is not enough to summarize the ultimate emotion in it, but it is undoubtedly a masterpiece that is upward, not sad, seems to be depressing but breaks through the depression, and is a masterpiece of profound experience of ultimate joy.

This is what I see in "Wheatfield with Crows", that restless but passionate life.