How to treat Van Gogh's life?

We haven't figured out his life or death yet.

Vincent Van Gogh, a missionary, with the grace of God, set foot on Borina Day, a land deeply branded with the curse of "Black Egypt". Reddish brown hair, cloudy eyes, towering cheekbones, full forehead. Compared with the short miner with black particles in his sweat, he is a different kind.

Van Gogh's ordination did not bring much comfort to the miserable Borina Day, although he spent all his family's money and worked hard for the local suffering miners. This small town in the shadow of capital has nothing to do with Protestant ethics, and there are no near-re-embodiment saints.

The missionary Van Gogh suddenly realized, "Without God, it's as simple as that. There is only chaos-tragic, painful, cruel, inexplicable and endless chaos. " God exists here, and self rises slowly.

Van Gogh, the miners return

So there was 188 1 the famous miners return. Blurred face, rickety back, brush strokes penetrating the back of the paper, people who are about to walk out of the picture. According to Van Gogh, his paintings emphasize action, which is unprecedented in the figure paintings of Titian, velazquez and even Rembrandt.

In the hot sun of Al, Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo. Attached to the letter was a sentence: "Everything I created for nature is chestnuts, which were taken out of the fire. Ah, those who don't believe in the sun are those who have turned their backs on God. " The painter Van Gogh began to look for his own sun. "Without the sun, there would be no painting."

Seurat, Sunday afternoon at Big Bowl Island.

In the cold pub in Paris, the intersection and disagreement with Gauguin, Cezanne, Lautrec and Seurat almost ruined Van Gogh's creation. However, after the sudden dream of "* * * Coloni", Van Gogh finally went to Al to look for the "sun" with his rediscovered self.

Cezanne's Apple, Seurat's meticulous coloring in The Big Bowl Island's Sunday Afternoon, Lautrec's ghostly grasp of the characters' demeanor, Gauguin's wanton colors and amazing imagination in Dressed Lady Puble.

From the perspective of art history alone, no one dares to despise the greatness of these names. But there is only one Van Gogh, and he is not a copy of any of the above names. He belongs to the field, to the sun, and is a sunflower.

Van Gogh, five sunflowers in a vase

It's only been 20 years since I decided to become a priest to listen to my inner demands and devote myself to art. Even counting those uncivilized youths, Van Gogh's lifeline is only over 37 years old.

Van Gogh was not tired of life, and even had a great desire for life. For this desire, he can burn his skin with candles, cut off his ears with razors, and even abandon his rich family and stick to painting under extremely difficult material conditions.

In others' eyes, Van Gogh has always been a madman. In his paranoid and self-centered life journey, Van Gogh longed most for being understood and loved. There are many relatives in this family. However, the only person who really knew Van Gogh was his younger brother Theo.

This understanding is more based on Leswick's childhood memories of The Old Mill than artistic singing.

But art is the whole of Van Gogh's life.

Van Gogh's self-portrait

Compared with Sui Qing's so-called "for the life of books", Van Gogh's "for the life of art" is more appropriate. His real life began with painting and ended with painting.

When painting could not tell his farewell to life, he "raised his head, turned his back to the sky, pressed his revolver to his abdomen and pulled the trigger." Irving stone, the author of the biography "Longing for Life", wrote: "He fell down, buried his face in the rich and pungent soil in the field, like a rapidly restored soil, and returned to the embrace of Mother Earth."

Until his death, his life was still associated with painting and the sun.

Van Gogh the sower

It's really hard to guess Van Gogh's heart with normal people. Van Gogh's life skipped the daily chores and pointed to the need of "self-realization".

To this end, he was deeply involved in endless debts and had to live in a hurry with Theo's monthly supplies. Years of hunger and embarrassment have caused damage to the spleen and stomach, inflammation of the gums and hair loss, which is always troublesome. But in the sanatorium in San Remy, Van Gogh still comforted himself with Delacroix's confession: "I learned to draw when my head was bald and I was dying."

No wonder the residents of Al, who are crazy to outsiders, call Van Gogh, who goes out to paint in bad weather every day, "Fure"-a madman with red hair.

Van Gogh's self-portrait

The difference between the two kinds of madness lies in the fact that the residents of Al are suffering from physical diseases in the scorching sun and the strong wind, and Van Gogh's nature and Al's rotten yellow, rotten purple and rotten green complement each other.

Physical and material pain cannot knock down Van Gogh's pursuit of truth and profundity. Painting has become the only sustenance of vitality that is too big to vent.

So there is such a self-report: "When I draw the sun, I hope that people can feel that it is rotating at an amazing speed and is emitting powerful light waves and heat waves. When I draw a wheat field, I want people to feel that the atoms inside the wheat grain are working hard towards final maturity and flowering. When I draw an apple tree, I hope people can feel that the juice in the apple is spreading the apple skin, and the seeds in the core are trying to bear their own fruit. "

Facing Van Gogh's indelible colors and oil paints, sometimes it is regrettable to imagine the restlessness and burning when painting.

Van Gogh, starry night

As Croce said, the essence of art is intuition. Van Gogh used painting to express his inner intuition all his life, but he answered. When he turned his frustration with reality into his inner desire, there was a strong sense of loneliness and vitality in his paintings. Artists' works are individual works, but the loneliness of artists is the loneliness of groups.

Seurat eventually died of overwork at the age of 32; Cezanne lived in seclusion and used painting to talk or hide loneliness; Gauguin finally became a model for The Moon and Sixpence to awaken the world. Lautreck never got rid of the inferiority and irritability caused by physical disability in his life.

Cezanne, fruit

No one has integrated into social ethics, but they have all become stars on the artistic canopy. John howard described them like this: "These are unfortunate geniuses, because their art was destroyed as soon as it was born; These are lucky people, because they have bred immortal flowers of art with their own pain. "

Today, Van Gogh cannot be mentioned without fifteen sunflowers in a vase. Dry and strong, more like a self-portrait than a self-portrait

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Van Gogh, fifteen sunflowers in a vase

If people are compared to a wheat field, the sun is warm and the rain is moist, but Van Gogh is like a sunflower in a wheat field, born in the sun and decayed when it meets water.

There is no reason to laugh at the madness and hysteria of ear cutting. His life cannot be understood, his genius cannot be understood, and his life will not be truly understood until a hundred years later.

An interesting fact is that one hundred years later in China, a poet who called Van Gogh "the thin brother" wrote this poem:

In fact, one of your eyes can light up the whole world.

But you must use the third eye, Al's sun.

Burn the starry sky into a raging river

Burn this land into ruins.

Raise your yellow convulsive hand, sunflower.

Invite all those who take chestnuts from the fire.

Stop painting the olive garden of Christ.

Draw olive harvest if you want.

Draw the fire of violence

Not the old man in the sky.

Wash away life

Brother with red hair, after drinking absinthe.

Start the ignition.

Shaoba

At the age of 25, he put his head on the cold railing. Younger than the "skinny brother" who committed suicide 12 years old. His name is Cha Haisheng, also known as Haizi.

For a real artist, the day when art ends is the day when life ends.

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