Van Gogh passed like a shooting star and returned to the stars. He left hundreds of works in his short painting career, but he was not appreciated during his lifetime, but later generations respect him as the father of modern art, which is probably a kind of compensation and tribute.
I think, what Van Gogh memories do I have? Perhaps one point is that I prefer the translation of Van Gogh to Van Gogh, probably because it is relatively easy to write. I remember my parents also visited the Van Gogh Museum when they were playing in the Netherlands and bought this commemorative album. The book design is interesting, with a puzzle effect, such as the sun when planting is also the light on the pool table. There is also a small picture book in Chinese, which contains the main works of different periods. I like to read short stories, and I like to find all kinds of self-portraits and sunflowers. In high school, the art teacher let go of a version of Van Gogh's biography. I remember the conflict between Vincent and Gauguin and seeing the ominous crow in the wheat field. What I didn't know at the time was that the film was adapted from a biographical novel written by Irving Stone; some translations were the strange "Desire to Live", the more generic one was "Desire for Life" (also known about Owen through Murakami), directed by Minnelli, Van Gogh is Kirk Douglas, Quinn Gauguin won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Of course, I have seen Van Gogh's works in art galleries or museums, but it is easier to be attracted by the works of others.
So I also learned about Vincent off and on, as well as the life story of Theo Van Gogh. If you want to say that you like his works, you may not like it, but you will at most express some admiration. Vincent painted a large number of portraits, from high-spirited, eyes burning with red hair and beard, as if eager to show the flame of art to the world;
The oil painting animation "Love Van Gogh" created with all my heart also made me curious. I remember that the previous Oscar winner for best short animation was the exquisite glass watercolor painting "The Old Man and the Sea", and the workload of oil painting may be even greater.
The story comes from a strange angle, rather than a linear structure of Van Gogh's life. It opens with a year after Van Gogh's suicide, the son of Mr. Postman goes to Paris to deliver a newly discovered letter from Vincent to Theo. It was later learned that Theo had passed away sadly. He was talking to others who knew Vincent about his experiences, especially the mysterious suicide.
The oil painting animation can be called wonderful, as if the stars in Vincent's brush flow on the canvas, many of his works flash again on the screen, and the characters under the brush can also tell their stories with Vincent. It can be said that this is painstaking work of art.
The film itself is actually a detective story, reconstructing Van Gogh's final days from the words of different people, and thereby telling his passion, love, or desire for life. Vincent himself did not make an official appearance. He only explored the true value of personal art in fragmented memories, but was gradually achieved by the burden of life and his own pressure. Perhaps that's why he pours his love of all things onto canvas more and more passionately, burning with fiery love in the painting. In the eyes of some people, he is a devil and a weirdo, but others think that he is a great artist, a genius, and a dumb good man. Little Lulan did not like Van Gogh, nor was he interested in art. If he hadn't listened to old Lulan, he wouldn't have embarked on the journey. His journey, since he was a child, is to understand the painstaking efforts of his father, and that the father and son understand each other, and on the other hand, is to recognize the tragedy and greatness of genius. Instead of caring about how he died, it was better to care about how he lived and how he burned his artistic passion. "The stars on the painting are so bright, but all around is emptiness and loneliness." This comment may be the portrayal of Vincent's life. He is just a nameless person, but with his paintings "I want people to see that a nameless person like me has a soul in his heart." He looked up at the starry sky, eager to touch the stars with his paintings. The quoted letter from Vincent to Theo is very beautiful, as moving as poetry.
However, is the story itself thin? An hour and a half is not too long, but if you look at oil paintings for a long time, you will naturally get tired. And can this detective story hold up the topic of "Love Vincent"? Are some small stories, although well drawn, just the details of a passionate life, without touching on the larger topics of art and beauty? I also saw some comments that the painters are naturally hard to paint, which is commendable, but is this mechanized painting contrary to Van Gogh's creation? He has never learned serious painting, and naturally he will not paint his own style deliberately, so does the painter after the animation just paint for the sake of tribute, without any "creative sense"?
The animation is naturally flawed, but the wonderful painting is still the beauty on the screen. Such a laborious image also shows the sincerity of the tribute.
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