Appreciation of Van Gogh's Starry Sky

1, Starry Sky is perhaps Van Gogh's most famous painting. The unique style makes people recognize Van Gogh's works at a glance. This work is fiction. Even if Van Gogh tried to create decorative works, only a few critics recognized his works and were willing to support his attempts in this regard. Part of the reason is undoubtedly that Van Gogh failed to hold the solo exhibition he hoped, and only in this way can he present a large number of his works. Gustav Kahn did comment on three of Van Gogh's works exhibited at the Independent Salon in 1888. He said that mr van gogh's brush was very powerful, which actually became a criticism. Some critics almost call this brushwork decorative brushwork. In 1889, Felix Feneon once mentioned that in this painting, this non-stereoscopic brushwork constitutes a rough straw mat pattern, and at the same time, the swirling color seems to be squeezed out directly from the paint tube. George leconte praised in his article: warm and thick coating? Various colors naturally create a shocking effect. Gustav Gevrey described Van Gogh as a painter who painted landscapes like sculptures. These comments may draw people's attention to the expressive patterns and decorations of Van Gogh's works, and his brushwork may be regarded as a means to unify the foreground and background in the same visual area. However, these comments are only a few words, and there is hardly a broader or deeper discussion of Van Gogh's works. From the perspective of a single piece of work, strong and unique brushwork refers to the temperament or unique style in the traditional sense, rather than decorative patterns. Once Van Gogh's physical health is widely known, they will not hesitate to think that his brushwork proves his morbid temperament and unstable temperament.

2. The field of vision is transformed into a thick and powerful pigment paste, and its veins unfold along the lines drawn by the fierce poking of his brush. The curling wave of the stars in the center of the sky may have been inadvertently influenced by the big waves in the West and the North-but its rushing pressure has no equivalent in oriental art. The moon comes out of the eclipse, the stars shine and surge, and the cypress trees shake with it, transforming the rhythm of the sky into the black distortion of its flame-like silhouette. They passed the torrent of the sky to him, completing the dynamic cycle throughout the whole nature.

3. 1889, Van Gogh's madness broke out again. After a fierce argument with Gauguin, he cut off his ear, wrapped it in a handkerchief and gave it to a prostitute. After that, he was sent to the madhouse in San Remy. He stayed there for a year and eight days. During this period, he still painted diligently, and completed more than 150 oil paintings and 100 sketches. His paintings at this time have completely tended to expressionism. In his paintings, images churning like waves and flames are full of melancholy spirit and tragic illusion. The oil painting Starry Sky is his masterpiece of this period.

This painting shows a highly exaggerated and strongly shocking starry sky scene. Huge, curly, rotating nebulae, exaggerated starlight and incredible orange moon are probably what the painter sees in hallucinations and dizziness. For Van Gogh, the images in the painting are full of symbolic meanings. The moon coming out of the eclipse implies a certain divinity, which reminds people of a saying that Hugo said and Van Gogh was happy to mention: "God is the lighthouse in the eclipse". The huge cypress trees shaped like flames and the tornado-like nebula flying in the night sky may symbolize the spirit of human struggle and struggle.

In this painting, the scene between heaven and earth becomes a thick and powerful pigment paste, and the vortex surges along the trajectory of the brush. The whole picture seems to be swallowed up by a surging torrent. The scenery is crazy, the mountains are turbulent, the moon nebula rotates, and the cypress rolling straight into the clouds looks like a huge black flame, reflecting the painter's restless feelings and crazy fantasy world.

6. Van Gogh is not passively indulging in the image of his own emotional torrent here. He can separate himself from his works as an artist, and look for a way that conflicts with the general trend of the picture with comparative factors, thus strengthening the emotional stimulation. We can see in the painting that the small town in the foreground is depicted with short and clear horizontal strokes, which is in sharp contrast with the upper curved strokes. That little yellow light is painted in a small square, which is in sharp contrast to the circle of starlight. The slender spire of the church crosses the horizon, and the top of the cypress just passes through the swirling nebula.

7. The huge cypress tree shaped like a flame and the tornado-like nebula flying in the night sky may symbolize the spirit of human struggle and hard work.

8. The whole picture seems to be swallowed up by a surging torrent. The scenery is crazy, the mountains are turbulent, the moon nebula rotates, and the cypress rolling straight into the clouds looks like a huge black flame, reflecting the painter's restless feelings and crazy fantasy world.

9. In a modern scientific research, scientists found that Van Gogh's later works, including Starry Night, all contained a charm called "turbulence" in physics, and speculated that this charm came from Van Gogh's ability to perceive and express paintings because of his long-term madness. On March 4, 2004, NASA and the European Space Agency released a space photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, saying that "this space photo is very similar to Van Gogh's masterpiece Starry Night". Among them, the photo taken by Hubble Space Telescope is the scene around a star named "Unicorn V838". The star is located in the direction of the unicorn, 20,000 light years away from the Earth.