You don’t need to understand the background knowledge to appreciate Van Gogh

Antonio 2021-12-27 08:01:24

I have never learned about Van Gogh, because he is too famous, so I also know the sunflower, the starry sky, and the terrace cafe.

You have suffered pain, and you should not tell others for sympathy, because a person with uniqueness, even his pain is unique, profound, and not easily understood by others. The sympathy of others will only relieve your pain. Personality reduces it to a mediocre annoyance, and at the same time it devalues ​​your personality.

This is what Nietzsche said in his "Knowledge of Pleasure." I dare not comment or draw conclusions about Van Gogh's suffering.

The unconventionality of a group and the accusations of being different are not worth mentioning, while a person’s different secular standards, without compromising the interests of the people, is full of struggle to open the first place alone. In an era of realistic and concrete painting, Van Gogh pioneered modern art. Suffering created Van Gogh, and Van Gogh created unique beauty? Perhaps from the beginning, he was a unique person.

This kind of struggle is complicated, some appear in literary works, some appear in the torrent of history, and of course there are many in the long river of art.

Doctor Stockman in Ibsen’s "The Enemy of the People", when he discovered that the tourist pillar hot spring bath in the town was contaminated by the tannery, he issued a report to the government in an attempt to persuade the citizens to close it. This bathing place was rejected by the whole people, and no one was on his side. In the end, he passed by unanimously the title of "Enemy of the People". Obeying most people's ideas is the last enlightenment from his brother who is the mayor. Stockman said: "The strongest person in the world is the most isolated person."

The "wild man" John in Brave New World, who came out of his own plot, resisted all the stylization and sensual domestication of the new world with his natural humanity. He could not accept the indulgence of animal sexuality between men and women, and despise him. Marriage ethics cannot agree that they have no history and ignore the future attitude of existence. His love with Lenina was destroyed because of the inconsistency of the three views. He stayed away from the crowd and found a quiet place to try to isolate himself from the world. With his own efforts and labor, new ideas seemed to be born, but he was found in the end, unable to resist external humiliation and stimulation. . . . . . In the end, the "savages" were strangled by the new world.

Kang Youwei wanted to carry out reforms, regardless of the consequences and the evaluation and analysis of later generations. He wanted to overthrow a 5,000-year-old culture that relies on father, son, ruler, and the laws of the world to operate a large country that would not be killed several times by people. That would not be possible. Yes.

Pan Yuliang, an illiterate female painter and sculptor who was once sold to a brothel who specializes in painting nude girls. In the 2014 Hong Kong Poly Spring Auction, her painting "Nude Girl by the Window" sold for 29.2 million yuan.

Her female portraits have both the brushstrokes of Chinese paintings and are nourished by Western art schools. The softness and solidity of the human body, the strength and charm are vividly displayed, and they have a unique sense of beauty and vitality.

The media tunes that have not changed so far are not a minority of people who like to use exaggerated and out-of-the-box titles to attract readers to describe Pan Yuliang from "prostitutes to masters of painting." While she has played an extremely important role in Chinese modern painting, but she is not as famous as her experience.

Xiao Hong, struggling all his life and turbulence, was forced to marry her husband Wang Enjia, who was an arranged marriage at the age of 14, fell in love with distant relatives at the age of 17, and was abandoned by her cousin after elopement at the age of 19, and was abandoned by her cousin at the age of 20. Wang Enjia's child followed Xiao Jun, and then separated and reunited with Xiao Jun several times, and finally took the child of Xiao Jun in his womb, into the arms of Duanmu Hongliang, at the age of 30. Her "Hulan River Biography" is light, concise, and lightly depicts various scenes that are as dense as weaving. For a woman with such a life experience, the girl's innocence can be revealed between the lines. It is really admirable and not easy. . Knowing the world but not the world, in that era when Yanan's style was flying all over the sky, her writing was like a stream of clear currents, which is commendable. The entanglement between Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun, which she herself calls life without youth but poverty, was the best time in her life.

There are many examples that can be cited. What do you want to say?

Life will bring people suffering, hardship, and being beaten up by life, there are many people who can't get up. Some people choose to live, and some people choose to die. However, most of the good things they left behind will be remembered forever by future generations. In the experience of suffering, people have a deeper understanding of life, their perception of life and beautiful expectations. This is a person's precious wealth.

The body that has been imprisoned knows the value of freedom.

The contaminated land knows the beauty of the grass.

Thoughts that have been imprisoned, know the infinite soul.

Van Gogh's source of life comes from his younger brother. He survives, buys painting tools, and continues to create. He has no income. His dream is to use the quality of life of himself and other people's family as the cornerstone and price. It’s too fast to become a great master of painting in 8 years, and it’s too long to be able to survive for 8 years.

This movie can be watched by my parents who have experienced turbulent times, or by my grandfather who has experienced the Republic of China and New China at the age of 97. They have all experienced hardships. Talking about the past, they may not be familiar with it. Van Gogh's artistry, but you can definitely appreciate the weight of life and the suffering of Van Gogh.

Many children watched and cried and saw his loneliness, but loneliness does not make people sad, loneliness can make people sad, the two are different standards of empathy.

If you are different, you will be lonely.
----Huxley, "A Brave New World"

Shouldn't he be stronger in the face of setbacks and blows? What if life doesn't let that person go? Look at it, life will eventually make him fall, what a cruel reality, and think of a book about interviewing some people who have experienced the Cultural Revolution. . . . . . Forgive my sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves are too confused.

The weight and cruelty of life is not how to die but how to survive. Isn't there a movie called "To Live"? I don't want to say a lot, that's it.

Personally, I don’t know much about Van Gogh, and I pay tribute to those who gave detailed information.

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