Van Gogh's life

Van Gogh was born in Zundert, the Netherlands in 1853. From 1869 to 1876, the 16-year-old Van Gogh worked in the Hague branch of the Gubil Art Company, and was transferred to the London branch and the Paris head office. wave of ideas. From 1887 to 1880, Van Gogh visited Amsterdam, Borinage in Belgium, and Brussels, the capital of Belgium, where he worked as an apprentice in a bookstore and applied for a seminary. This period was the darkest period in Van Gogh's life. The poverty caused by unemployment, the mental depression caused by discord with his family, and the pain of wandering on the street came together. He began to study the Barbizon School and the Hague School, and then copied the works and painted the life of the miners in Borina Gil.

From 1881 to the summer of 1883, Van Gogh remained in The Hague. With the help of his brother Theo, he was able to concentrate on painting - he began to paint people and natural scenery, and created his first oil paintings. At this time, the Hague gathered a large number of outstanding Dutch painters, and Van Gogh had contacts with many painters. They learned painting skills together and went out to sketch together. It was here that Van Gogh also met his first painting mentor, brother-in-law Anton. Muff, under Muff's guidance, Van Gogh's painting skills improved greatly, but the relationship between the two eventually broke down due to Van Gogh's friendship with the prostitute Sien (Sien). Every corner of The Hague has the footprints of Van Gogh's sketches. The loggers in the fields and villages, a beach and broken fishing nets, a clump of trees, and a lawnmower can make Van Gogh discover beauty. (Rain Farm near The Hague)

From 1883 to 1886, Van Gogh traveled to Drenthe in the north of the Netherlands, Nuenennan, and Antwerp in Belgium. He used sketches and oil paintings to depict hard-working farmers; he painted more than 200 simple oil paintings in dark tones; he designed 8 room decoration paintings for a businessman; he painted about 50 portraits of farmers for "The Potato Eater". (person who grows potatoes)

In January 1886, in order to get formal training in painting, Van Gogh entered the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts to study oil painting and drawing, but soon left. He came to Paris in February and was immediately fascinated by Impressionist paintings. When he entered the Colmans studio to study painting, he met painters such as Henri Rousseau and Emile Bernard. Under their influence, Van Gogh began to paint still lifes and flowers in brighter colors. During his 20 months in Paris, Van Gogh painted about 200 paintings. (Sunflower 1887)

In February 1888, Van Gogh traveled to Arles in Provence, where he painted numerous flowers and groves in bloom. In August, he started a series of sunflower paintings. In September, he began to paint night scenes frequently. In January 1889, he created the work "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ears". In 1890 Van Gogh went to Auvers with beautiful cypresses and wheat fields. Because of both physical and mental suffering, he painted a lot of frenetic, passionate landscapes: the spinning sun, twisted numbers, whirlwind lines, fragmented forms, frantic colors... On July 28, Brahma Gao aimed his gun at himself."The Raven in the Wheat Field" Van Gogh tried his best to express the rural scene, but the turbulent composition, the strong contrast composition, and the rough and wild brushstrokes clearly revealed his inner restlessness, loneliness and depression.

At the age of 27, Van Gogh was really starting his artistic career. In this decade of not being recognized, of being regarded as a lunatic, of throwing himself into a lot of cobalt blue and lemon yellow, he was not understood by contemporary people, and was abandoned by reality and love. But he will still sympathize with the poor miners and farmers, adopt Sien's children, and always maintain his love for nature. Only in nature, in painting, can he truly attain himself.