(Some things after Van Gogh's death. It has nothing to do with the movie. The film review was written and deleted)
Every Van Gogh needs a Theo, a Theo wife.
When Theo's name kept appearing in Van Gogh's biography, Theo's wife appeared in the news only a few years ago. The content of the news is "The latest research speculates that Van Gogh's ear cutting was stimulated by the news that Theo is about to get married." It seems that the role of Theo's wife is nothing more.
Theo's son mentioned in the biography to his mother Johanna Polyan that after Van Gogh's death, paintings that were worthless at the time filled the house. Many people advised her to "dispose of", but she did not. She began to sort out the letters of the Van Gogh brothers, rearranged those letters that had no chronological order, sought publication, and translated them.
I admit that when I saw what Johanna did in the introduction in the Van Gogh Museum, I thought in a gloomy mind: With so many paintings and letters by Van Gogh, she must be very rich. Alas, I'm so dark. No way, in the biography of Van Gogh I read, she only appeared as a functional character who "gave the birth of a child to Theo, and the two couples went to see Van Gogh together, Van Gogh was very happy". What can I imagine for such a vague person? Of course... reasonable Chinese imagination...
I found her diary on February 24, 1892, and translated it roughly:
"Today there are two painters—Verkade and Serrurier. It feels great to speak French again. They think Vincent’s work is beautiful, and it’s too unusual to hear such compliments. The Dutch don’t appreciate his work. I think of the good days in Paris.
There will be a Vincent exhibition tomorrow night. I have high expectations. When I think of this appreciation finally coming, I feel like a great victory. It feels so beautiful. I must go there to hear what people are saying and what attitudes they will have-those who once laughed at Vincent, then he came to have fun. "
(Unexpectedly, I cried when I watched the movie today, and I couldn’t help crying when I watched Johanna’s diary tonight)
"The child (referring to her and Theo’s sons) will judge what his mother is like, what he thinks, and what he feels. He can imagine from her diary, along with the letters of his father and uncle, what it is like. Life."
In her diary in May, June and September, she kept mentioning Van Gogh's painting exhibition. She wrote in her diary, "I want to continue to translate more things, I want to make more money." Only if she has money, she can support Theo's son. With money, she can continue to promote Van Gogh's paintings.
After Theo died, she wrote, "After Theo’s illness, these letters occupied most of my life. I spent the first lonely night at home (it should be the first night after Theo’s death). I took out these letters. I knew that I could find him again. In the endless nights of sorrowful days, these were my only comforts. I was not looking for Vincent, I was looking for Theo. I was in I drank in every word, and I poked and sucked in every line. Not only read with my heart, but also with my whole soul... I read and read again, until I saw Vincent appeared in front of me... I realized this lone artist It’s great and noble. Sometimes it makes me sad. I remember last year, when Vincent died, I went out very late. It was windy, raining, and it was dark. There was light everywhere in the room and people gathered around the table. How desolate I feel, for the first time, I felt what Vincent felt during that time, when everyone left him, when he felt'as if there is no place for me in the world'. I hope you can experience the text The impact of Senter on me. It was him who helped me regain my inner peace."
After the second marriage and the second death of her second husband, Johanna still insisted on holding an exhibition for Van Gogh. Although some people criticized her fiercely, saying that she didn't understand painting at all, saying that she was doing something in a field she didn't understand. Theo son wrote that people were still making fun of Van Gogh's paintings until they were first exhibited in London in 1910. And Johanna is continuing to sort out those undated letters. Number the letter through the events mentioned in it. Initially handwritten and later printed, these letters were published for the first time in 1914. When Johanna was alive, the publisher offered to reprint this collection of letters, indicating that it was selling well, which made her very happy.
I used to think that Van Gogh's works were too far ahead of the times and were destined to become famous only behind him. After reading Johanna’s diary, I have a new perception: living long enough is victory. (This should be at Tokugawa Ieyasu) If Van Gogh lived long enough, maybe he could wait for Johanna's push hands, maybe life would be different. Of course, the hypothesis is just hypothesis that Van Gogh is not dead, and Theo will not suffer from the pain, and follow him. Johanna would not read the letter repeatedly because of miss, and finally understood the great soul of Van Gogh. No pain, no poverty, no loneliness, is Van Gogh still Van Gogh? I always feel very cruel when I say this.
Real artists are worthy of respect, because they sensitively resist all the pain of the world, transform them into beautiful energy, and dedicate them to the world. The same is true for the short-lived Van Gogh, and the same is true for the longer-lived Nanhai Shisan Lang.
Van Gogh was finally remembered by later generations. And I want to commemorate Theo's wife.
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