After reading hundreds of his letters and many paintings, I finally saw the brilliance of his paintings and his love for life.
1890 On July 29th, 37-year-old Van Gogh was fixed on this day. Why did Van Gogh commit suicide without warning? The film "The Mystery of the Beloved Van Gogh Starry Sky" revolves around this issue. In order to deliver a letter sent by Van Gogh before his death to the recipient, armand, the postman's son, ran around, finished Van Gogh's life track, and got a little understanding: What kind of person was Van Gogh?
Van Gogh didn't choose to be a painter from the beginning. At first, he worked in an art trading company in London with a high salary, during which he visited British museums and art galleries. Finally, because he was dissatisfied with the commercialization of art, he left the industry.
In correspondence with his younger brother, he said: "The feeling and love for nature will resonate in the hearts of art lovers sooner or later. The painter's duty is to devote himself wholeheartedly to nature, inspire all his wisdom, show his love for nature in his works and let others understand him. In my opinion, the creation for the purpose of sales is the least desirable, and it will only disgust people who love art. "
Later, Van Gogh worked as a teacher, bookstore and missionary. Van Gogh was not admitted to the theology department, became a missionary, was kicked out of the church and lost his job.
At the age of 27, he began to learn painting with the encouragement and support of his younger brother Theo. Van Gogh lived in the neo-classical school of painting, admired and imitated the art of ancient Greece and Rome, and emphasized rational expression and contour.
Van Gogh, who picked up the brush, did not cater to the mainstream aesthetics. He painted the things around him that really touched him. He said: "What I hope to achieve is not to draw a pair of hands, but to draw a gesture of hands; Not to accurately outline the outline of a head, but the expression of the head, such as the expression of the digger looking up and inhaling or talking. In other words, life. "
Van Gogh's younger brother Theo is a big art dealer. Van Gogh often corresponded with his younger brother and mailed his works, hoping that Theo could help him sell his paintings. However, before his death, only one of his works was sold.
For a long time, Van Gogh's only source of income was the living expenses that his brother Theo gave him regularly.
Van Gogh said, "When can I deposit the starry sky hovering in my mind on paper? Alas, alas, as Lucy Prian said in Jory-Karl houseman's novel Living Together: When you are lying in bed with a pipe in your mouth, the best picture comes to you, but you never draw it. But in the face of such a perfect, magnificent and wonderful nature, no matter how clumsy and incompetent you feel, you must try. "
This passage also laid the groundwork for Van Gogh's future creation of Starry Night.
Van Gogh is really talented, but what I see is more about his devotion to what he loves.
In Orville's last days, he was painting at the rate of one oil painting a day. In his correspondence with Theo, he said, "I tell you, everyone will think I draw too fast, but don't trust them. Aren't emotions and true feelings about nature guiding us to paint? If these feelings are too strong, you don't feel that you are painting at all, and sometimes they just flow out one by one, just like words in a language or letters, then you should know that this will not happen all the time, and there will be difficult moments when inspiration runs out in the future. Therefore, it is very important to strike while the iron is hot and save forged lines. "
Van Gogh's life was short, but full of disappointment. He ran into a wall everywhere in his career and love, his paintings were not understood and appreciated, and he lived in poverty and suffered from diseases.
Although living in poverty and disease, Van Gogh and Theo's letters did not reveal the negativity of complaining, and they still painted with undiminished enthusiasm day after day. He said: "We are all on the road to light. Don't be suspicious, the road to success lies in cheering up, waiting patiently and making unremitting efforts day after day. Improving your painting is the most important thing. "
The letter still talks about what he saw: golden wheat fields, violets, blue sea and blue sky. He said, "The uglier, the older, the sicker and the poorer I become, the more I want to arrange clever, vivid and bright colors to get back at all this."
He did it. During his stay in St Remy's Sanatorium, he painted 150 oil paintings and 100 sketches, including Starry Night, one of his most famous works.
The stars are very small, shining with starlight, leaving traces dragged by time, forming a bright starry sky.
Secular difficulties can't compare with his enthusiasm and delicacy for life. He said: "I often feel extremely rich, of course not in terms of money (although I am poor now, I may not always be like this), but I am lucky to find my own career, and I can devote myself wholeheartedly to it, which can inspire me and give me meaning in life."
At the end of the movie "The Mystery of the Beloved Van Gogh Starry Sky", there are two possibilities of Van Gogh's suicide and homicide, but there is no conclusion. With the deepening of Van Gogh, suicide and homicide no longer seem to be the result of entanglement, and the director presents more Van Gogh's character and mind.
He is not a timid and negative person, let alone a madman. It doesn't matter how he died, what matters is: how did he live?
In a sci-fi English drama, Van Gogh crossed into the modern age. He walked carefully into the museum and saw many people in front of his paintings in his exhibition hall. At this time, the critic in the exhibition hall said, "To me, Van Gogh is the most outstanding painter in history, and there is no one. His control of color is unparalleled. He turned the suffering in life into passion on canvas. Pain is easy to show, but how to express the passion, joy and magnificence in the world with gentle passion and pain is unprecedented and unprecedented. He is not only the greatest painter in the world, but also a human being.
Every detail in life can't be ignored for him. Illness, poverty and depression have not become the reasons for his negative life, and art has not become a tool for him to vent his pain. He still loves the world, and his beautiful paintings are the most touching hymns of life.