Van Gogh's passion came from the world he lived in and the strong reaction of people he knew. This is by no means a simple reaction made by a primitive man or a child. His letter to his brother Theo is the most touching story written by the artist. The letter shows his highly sensitive perception, which is completely in line with his emotional response. He is keenly aware that he is getting the effect, which is achieved through yellow or blue. Although most of his color concepts are used to express his love for man and nature and his happiness in the process of expression, he is very sensitive to dark colors, so when talking about Cafe at Night, he said, "I try to express the terrible passion of human beings in red and green." The cafe at night is a nightmare composed of dark green ceilings, red walls and uncoordinated green furniture. The golden floor presents a vertical perspective and enters the red background with incredible power. Conversely, the red background is also quite competitive with its strength. This painting is an irreconcilable struggle between the perspective of space and the aggressive color trying to destroy it. The result is a terrible experience of claustrophobia and oppression. The work indicates surrealism's exploration of perspective as a means of fantasy expression, but no exploration can have such shocking power.
2. A starry night
Van Gogh's universe can last forever in the starry night. This is an illusion, surpassing any attempt by Byzantine or Roman artists to express the great mystery of Christianity. Van Gogh's paintings of exploding stars are more closely related to space exploration in that era than to the era of mysterious belief. However, this illusion is caused by the accurate brushwork that took a lot of effort. When we understand expressionism in painting, we often associate it with brave brushstrokes. Whether it is bold and unrestrained or flame-like brushwork comes from intuition or spontaneous performance, and is not bound by rational thinking process or rigorous techniques. The originality of Van Gogh's paintings lies in his supernatural experience, or at least his extrasensory experience. And this kind of experience can be proved by a cautious brush stroke. This brushwork is like an artist racking his brains to accurately copy what he is observing. In a sense, yes, because Van Gogh was an artist who painted what he saw. What he saw was an illusion, and he was also an illusion. Starry Night is a landscape painting both near and far, which can be seen from the high-viewpoint landscape techniques of Bruegel, a landscape painter in the16th century, although Van Gogh's more direct source is some impressionist landscape paintings. Tall poplars trembled and floated slowly in front of us; Small villages in the valley live safely under the protection of the steeple church; All the stars and planets in the universe are spinning and exploding in the "doomsday judgment". This is not the final judgment of man, but the final judgment of the solar system. This painting was painted by/kloc-0 in June, 1989 in St. Remy's sanatorium. After the second nervous breakdown, he lived in this nursing home. There, his illness was good and bad, and when he was awake and full of emotions, he kept painting. The colors are mainly blue and purple, and the yellow of the stars beats regularly. The dark green and brown poplars in the foreground mean endless nights around the world.
Van Gogh inherited the great tradition of portrait painting, which is rare among his contemporaries. His passionate love for people made it inevitable for him to paint portraits. He studied people like nature, from the initial sketch to the last self-portrait he drew a few months before 1890. It faithfully shows the terrible and tense eyes that crazy people stare at. A madman, or a person who can't control his behavior, can't draw such a measured and skillful painting anyway. In different levels of blue, some rhythmic lines set off the beautiful sculptural head and strong trunk. Everything in the painting is blue or blue-green, except the dark shirt and the head with red beard. The combination of all colors and rhythms from the head to the trunk to the background, as well as the subtle changes in the emphasis parts, all indicate that this artist has a very good grasp of modeling methods, as if Van Gogh could record his mental illness when he was fully awake.
3. "Crowds of crows are flying in the wheat field."
In this painting, there is still his unique golden color that people are familiar with, but it is full of anxiety and gloom. The thick blue sky with dark clouds is pressing the golden wheat field, so heavy that people can't breathe, and the air seems to have solidified. A group of messy crows fly low, the undulating horizon and the violent strokes add to the sense of oppression, resistance and uneasiness. The picture is extremely turbulent, and the green path goes deep into the distance in the yellow wheat field, which adds anxiety and excitement. This painting reveals tension and ominous omens everywhere, as if it were a silent suicide book composed of colors and lines. The very next day, he came to this wheat field and shot himself in the heart.
4. "Self-portrait after ear cutting"
1888 Van Gogh invited Gauguin to live in arles, but the two stubborn artists kept arguing. After a heated argument, Gauguin left angrily. Van Gogh could not stop or restrain his excitement, so he cut off his left ear.
The world first infected its madness to human painters-just as it once injected magic into his works. We stared in surprise at Van Gogh's twisted face, frightened eyes and trembling gestures: he seemed to be suffering instead of all mankind and became the embodiment of pain. With this in mind, we can understand the struggling lines and dancing color blocks in Van Gogh's works: his blood is mixed with poured paint, and the canvas is just a bandage for his wound. This is a master who lives in trauma. He is used to talking to the world with a wound. This is a painful reaper, and his sickle finally harvested his ears.
Van Gogh died, but he left a famous ear-this last relic doesn't seem to have lost his hearing, collecting comments from future generations. The bleeding ear in the story is still like a stethoscope buried in our lives, spying on our conscience. Van Gogh is dead, his ears are still alive, and he still has memories. When he groans and collapses, why not give him a hand-the world, do you hear? Where do your ears grow?
5. Fourteen sunflowers
These sunflowers are simply inserted in vases, showing a breathtaking magnificence. Van Gogh used repainted strokes, like sculpture, to take a piece of clay from the relief. The colors and techniques of yellow and earth tones show a beautiful world full of hope and sunshine. However, while painting this painting, the world that the painter desperately wanted to seize slowly but mercilessly slipped away. Perhaps the surface of this painting reflects his psychological state at the end of his short tragic life. He is a painter who loves nature and can see pure beauty from simple things. He said that he would rather paint the shadows of trees seen from the window than imaginary illusions.