As an art lover, what do you think is good about Van Gogh's paintings?

For more than 100 years after his death, Van Gogh never dreamed that he would become a top online celebrity in the art circle.

Sunflower 1887 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Many people say that they can't understand Van Gogh's paintings. What's so good about it? I think, on the one hand, in the information age, we are surrounded by all kinds of high-definition pictures and videos every day. Beautiful women watch too much, and their eyes have long been dull. On the other hand, our aesthetic education is really not enough, and art appreciation still stays at the stage of painting liking or not, so naturally we can't understand the beauty in Van Gogh's paintings, and that kind of enthusiasm and fierceness condenses the beauty of the artist's life.

Van Gogh's artistic life can be divided into three stages. In the first half of his life, Van Gogh expressed his pity for the working people at the bottom with deep and rich colors, including mud-covered miners and poor farmers. The kind Van Gogh did not forget to care about the hard-working people who struggled in life when he was frustrated and gloomy. Van Gogh expressed his sympathy with simple dark colors and realistic paintings.

Potato eater 1885 Van Gogh Art Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1886, Van Gogh came to Paris. Like everyone who went to work in the city, Van Gogh opened the door to a new world. He was willing to accept everything in the city, went in and out of art salons and bars, fell in love with Japanese cultural ukiyo-e, and the colors of the picture lit up. During this period, he made many friends in the art circle, including his gay friend paul gauguin, who made him crazy. Pissarro, a mentor, and Van Gogh's "Diancai" were both deeply influenced by pissarro. There is also a kind and loving pigment painter, Father Dong Ji, for whom Van Gogh once painted portraits.

Don Quixote 1887 Rodin Museum, Paris, France

Van Gogh gradually found his own style. During this period, his life was still poor, thanks to his brother's relief. Theo unconditionally supported Van Gogh's artistic dreams, supported his life and bought paints.

Montmartre Vegetable Field, Amsterdam Museum of Modern Art, Netherlands 1887

1888, Van Gogh came to Arles, from town to city, from city to country. He just loves Al. Hot sunshine, rolling wheat waves, hot sunflowers, Van Gogh's heart is burning. It's worth staying here all your life. He stayed and began the most glorious period of his artistic career. Arles, a remote town in the south of France, is destined to stay in art history with the name of Van Gogh.

12 Sunflower 1888 New Art Museum in Munich, Germany

Van Gogh's post-impression style was formed in the last three or four years of his life. He started painting at the age of 27 and died at the age of 37. It only took him 65,438+00 years to reach the peak of his career, showing his amazing talent. When Van Gogh lived in arles, he had no friends. Everyone in the village regarded him as a psycho monster, and he was only cold-eyed and prejudiced. Van Gogh's inner pain, color burning on the canvas, inner passion is on the verge.

Wheat field harvested in the sun 1889 Van Gogh Art Museum, Netherlands

To evaluate an artist's achievements, we must combine the background of the times. Take Van Gogh's Starry Moon Night as an example, the work of 1889 can be imagined. 1889 what is the development level of social civilization and popular mainstream aesthetics? It is really remarkable to look at the essence of art in the context of the times. Van Gogh's artistic attainments are ahead of his time.

Starry Moon Night 1889 new york Museum of Modern Art

Basic skills are not the most important for the master. The world expressed by artists through painting is the core of artistic value, which provides us with different perspectives and latitudes to observe the world.

The "classicism" school takes Rembrandt as an example. In the era when there is no camera, artists pay attention to modeling and outline, emphasizing subtle details and realistic light and shade, and are as pure realism as photos, which embodies the superb techniques of oil painting. Another example is Titian Vecellio, Da Vinci and so on. Painters in that period were equivalent to royal photographers, drawing portraits for top clients such as the Pope and the Emperor, and drawing the mental outlook of the characters was an important kpi assessment index.

Paul III of Titian Vecellio

Starting from "Impressionism", painting emphasizes the artist's subjective observation, portrays the objective nature by himself, and no longer blindly pursues realism and obsesses over images. In this era, camera technology appeared in Europe.

People who study painting know that different light and shadow have ups and downs on the inherent color of objects, and different lightness has an impact on the warmth and coldness of colors. Post-impressionist painters observe everything through light, such as sunlight, starlight, light, candlelight and all kinds of light. It can be said that impressionism is the art of light. Everyone is familiar with Monet's impression of sunrise, which is the hazy world in Monet's eyes in the morning fog. It can be said that impressionism is very romantic.

Sunrise Impression Monet 1872

Returning to Van Gogh, Van Gogh, full of passion and thought, can see the energy of light that others can't see, and experience the flow of this energy on the canvas. In van Gogh's eyes, light is not static, but changing vividly.

1889 Van Gogh painted "Night of the Stars and Moon", and the night rotates in illusion. Van Gogh gave life to the stars, and the light surged in the cirrus vortex. "Everything is immersed in silence, but thousands of things are flowing." The stranger in this wheat field has been admitted to a mental hospital after a long period of loneliness and depression. Ironically, this most brilliant work in the history of art was actually completed in a mental hospital, and no one understood Van Gogh.

When we were young, we must have naively asked our parents such a question, "Why do the stars in the sky move?" I didn't know until I grew up that everything in the universe was running at a high speed. The stars are moving around and the light is dim. Van Gogh devoted all his enthusiasm to this painting. Some people say that this painting was completed during Van Gogh's mental illness, and the starry night was crazy with Van Gogh. I don't think so. Mental patients have difficulty in picking up a pen. How can he draw such accurate strokes? Every stroke has a direction. Van Gogh may not be mentally ill at all, but he has been lonely for too long, and his long-term depression has completely broken him down.

Throughout his life, Van Gogh was not recognized by the mainstream art world, and his paintings were rarely sold. He lives in the guilt of dragging his brother down and misunderstanding the world. In the end, Van Gogh ended his life with a gun.

In an episode of Doctor Who, the doctor risked tampering with history and took Van Gogh through the Musee d 'Orsay in Paris in 20 10. One hundred years later, Van Gogh was finally recognized in front of his works. ......

His control of color is unparalleled. He turned the pain in life into the beauty of passion on canvas. Pain is easy to express, but how to combine passion and pain to express passion, joy and magnificence in the world is difficult. It is unprecedented, and it may not happen again. He is not only the greatest painter in the world, but also a human being.

The screenwriter gave Van Gogh the highest evaluation through the narrator's mouth, rehabilitated Van Gogh, and Van Gogh burst into tears. .....

Van Gogh's self-portrait

When I draw a sun, I want people to feel that it is spinning at an amazing speed and giving off terrible light and heat waves.

When I draw a wheat field, I want people to feel that wheat is moving towards the final maturity and flowering.

When I draw an apple tree, I hope people can feel that the juice in the apple is smearing the skin of the apple and the seeds in the core are trying to bear fruit.

When I paint a person, I paint his turbulent life.

If there is nothing infinite, profound and real in my life, I will no longer be attached to this world. ...

van gogh

This short life has touched and touched countless art lovers. ......

As for the beauty of Van Gogh's paintings, if you have seen them here, you should have the answer.