Vincent van Gogh, the master of Impressionist painting, famously said, "In a sense, I am a sunflower!"

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Pingguo naturally can't be abandoned.

So, on a sunny Friday afternoon, Ping Hanhan took his mother Pingguo to take the 7-line tram to that bustling, lively and sacred place.

On a road that runs from north to south, you'll find the Diamond Factory (the capital of diamonds), across a beautiful and spacious river, the National Museum of Amsterdam, the Symphony of Destiny played by cellists and violinists, Amsterdam's landmarks and the Van Gogh Museum.

The Van Gogh Museum is located at Paulus Potterstraat 7, 1071 CX Amsterdam

Ping Hanhan booked tickets online in advance, saving the trouble of queuing up to buy tickets, so that he could enter quickly and smoothly.

The Van Gogh Museum was founded in 1973 and houses 200 of Van Gogh's most precious paintings from his golden period, accounting for 1/4 of his works. Hundreds of sketches (some say thousands), and almost all of Van Gogh's letters.

Although there is no world-famous "Starry Night", there are many famous works, from the early "Potato Eater", to "Geisha" and "Plum Tree" modeled on Japanese ukiyo-e, to "Sunflowers", "Yellow House", "Starry Sky on the Rhône", "Room in Arles", as well as "Crow in the Rye", a series of self-portraits, Van Gogh's colors range from dim to vivid, and each period has different encounters and moods, which can be found in his paintings.

The all-glass museum is beautiful and artistic, with a total of four floors of exhibition halls, derived from the timeline upwards.

Ground floor: Van Gogh's birth, as well as some self-portraits.

Second floor: works from 1883 to 1889, that is, from the time he left the priesthood and decided to create paintings, went to Paris to experience the art of the Impressionists, then went to live in Arles in the south of France, and finally went to the sanatorium in Saint-Rémy, near Paris, France. He had only been painting for ten years, and Van Gogh was a crazy master of painting in a race against life.

Third floor: letters and stories between him and friends and family. Van Gogh's younger brother Theo was an indispensable, very, very important figure for Van Gogh. The museum illustrates this family and friendship in detail. Without the support of his younger brother, Van Gogh would not have become the Van Gogh as he is today. Shortly after Van Gogh's death, his younger brother Theo also died, and the brothers were buried together. Van Gogh's parents, Theo's wife Joanna and younger son Vincent Jr., Van Gogh's friend Gauguin and others have haunting and sad stories, all of which are photographed, painted and told. In addition, there is an exhibition hall where there are paintings by some contemporaries of the same era, all of whom were young artists inspired by Van Gogh.

Fourth floor: Van Gogh's work at the end of his life, from 1889 to 1890. The famous "Crow in the Rye Field", many people think that this is the last work of the painter Van Gogh (of course, the commentary in the Van Gogh Museum does not think so, Pingguo naturally has to be the official), but when Pingguo stood in front of the oil picture, looking at the unfathomable blue sky sky, so heavy, melancholy, and the messy wildness of the straw, groups of black crows flew away quickly, despair, worry, pain, and the incomprehension of the insignificance and vanity, Pingguo understood the thoughts of Van Gogh who was full of compassion at that time.

Van Gogh, the most famous painter in the Netherlands and the world, committed suicide in July 1890.

In January 1891, six months after Van Gogh's death, his lifelong brother, Theo, died in grief at the age of 33.

The doctor said, "Excessive stress and lament were the cause of death. ”

Theo's wife, Joanna, inherited Theo's mountain of paintings and drawings, hundreds of letters Van Gogh wrote to Theo, and her youngest son, Vincent (V.W van Gogh).

Her younger brother's wife, Joanna, was not familiar with Van Gogh before, but when she read Van Gogh's letters, she was deeply touched and impressed by Van Gogh's passion, life hardships and genius.

Since then, Joanna has made the world understand Van Gogh step by step through her own hard-working, diligent and intelligent promotion work. At that time, whether in the Netherlands or France, the awareness of Van Gogh was very low, and it was she who often lent Van Gogh's works to exhibitions, especially after she compiled Van Gogh's 652 letters into a three-volume collection of letters and published a large number of letters, which began to attract attention.

In 1914, three volumes of Van Gogh's letters were published in the Netherlands (the German edition was published at the same time). Later it is available in various foreign languages. Our Van Gogh is finally becoming known to people all over the world.

In 1927, Joanna died. Although she worked hard, Van Gogh's paintings remained at home.

His son, Vincent, inherited all of his uncle's original works, which was both a treasure and a mental burden for Vincent, who had become an excellent technician. Whenever he goes out to work or play, these relics in the family must also cry and entangle his nerves, as if when he thinks of his uncle and parents, he sees their eyes of grief and expectation. So one day, Vincent approached the relevant departments of the government in Amsterdam, and it was almost a gratuitous donation, which enriched us and gave us a feast for the eyes.

Around 1930, art historian John Rowald met Vincent.

He thinks Vincent is like this: "He has no arrogance at all, he can't see that he is rich at all." His habits and way of life were extremely simple, but his house was full of his uncle's paintings and drawings, and if he piled up all the works he owned at home, I am afraid that it would not be able to accommodate it. Most of these works are on loan on a long-term basis and have been exhibited for many years at the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam.

After World War II, fearing that the paintings would be scattered everywhere, he asked the Amsterdam and Dutch governments for permanent collections on the condition that they be donated.

In 1960, the Vincent van Gogh Foundation was founded.

In 1962, the city of Amsterdam provided the land and the state paid for it, and the Van Gogh Museum was finally about to become a reality.

In 1963, the Van Gogh Museum was opened. Vincent was also actively involved in the design. The building was designed by the Dutch architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888-1964). He was succeeded by someone else after his death.

On June 2, 1973, the Van Gogh Museum was officially opened, and Queen Juliana of the Netherlands cut the ribbon in person.

Since then, the Van Gogh Museum has become a major attraction in Amsterdam.

Pinggo was most pleased that Vincent, Van Gogh's own nephew, witnessed the completion of the museum.

In 1978, a few days after his 88th birthday, Vincent died.

His friend Johann Rowald mourned: "Faced with the home where he had lived for forty years, in which all Van Gogh's works had been emptied, Vincent felt very relaxed and happy as if he had unloaded the burden he had carried on his shoulders for many years. ”

Pingguo thinks that if a person does not have a broad mind, it is impossible to be so compassionate to the people of the world and give such dedication to ordinary people who do nothing. Two Dutchmen named Vincent gave the highest gifts to those who loved painting and art.

The Van Gogh Museum was originally called an art museum, and when it was built, it was built in a small area, designed for 60,000 people per year.

In recent years, Van Gogh has become famous, with more than one million visitors a year, and the original venue is suddenly stretched.

As a result, Japan's Yasuda fire and the president of Hainan Insurance Company, Goto Yasuo (who bought a sunflower by Van Gogh in 1987, typical sympathy, Pingguo thought. The new Van Gogh Museum Exhibition Wing, designed by Japan's world-renowned architect Kisho Kurokawa, broke ground on April 29, 1997. At the same time, the original building was renovated and designed by architect Martin Van Hou. Both the new and old buildings reopened on June 24, 1999.

What Pingguo appreciates is the all-glass pavilion exhibition.

In September 2013, the Van Gogh Museum announced the discovery of a new Van Gogh work "Sunset in Montmajour", and there is another dazzling treasure in the hall of Van Gogh's original works.

Standing in front of a few paintings, Pingguo lingered:

"Sunflowers":

In the late summer of 1887, Van Gogh painted four sunflowers, which felt extremely realistic. The one in front of me, from a certain point of view, can be regarded as a representative work of Van Gogh's painting collection.

As a child, Van Gogh loved the bird's nest, and this love can be said to fully demonstrate his love of meditation.

Van Gogh was always trying to capture the sense of weight that rotates from the center to the periphery.

To go to the south of France in search of the sun is to pray for the color, the swirling, the heat of the colorful and fervent.

As we all know, the sunflower is the sun that grows on the earth, and her masculine is incomparable.

Van Gogh's sunflowers also give people infinite imagination, such as the fiery petals, is it a burning desire, or for the body, or for the ideal, or for the dream, can a person be destroyed?

"The Wheat Field Where Crows Fly":

Pingguo thought that standing in front of this painting, people's mood was immediately filled with a sense of despair, horror, and bad luck. At the time of painting, Van Gogh stood in the oatmeal field, and his self-estimation was already far away, as if he had really transcended the realm of life and death, and was in the tempering of another world, and the whole world was being overlooked.

Van Gogh said: "My life has been ruined from its foundations, and my feet can only walk with a limp." ”

"I'm worried about whether I'm going to be a heavy burden to you...... At that point - back here and again to work - the brush almost slipped out of his hand...... Since then, however, I have painted three large pieces. ”

Yes, Pingguo burst into tears, the lines of this painting were stiff and out of order, not only the heavens and the earth were screaming, but even all the pain, loneliness, sadness, sorrow, and despair flew from the other end of the horizon.

Countless people have asked: What is so good about Van Gogh's paintings?

Indeed, there are many people who say that they like Van Gogh's paintings because of the strong colors and beauty of Van Gogh's paintings. That's right, his paintings are very beautiful and colorful. But the strong emotions he condensed in the paintings, when facing the paintings, did not feel it.

"The Potato Eater" is an early work of Van Gogh. It depicts a Dutch peasant sitting around a dimly lit house and eating a simple dinner at the end of a day's work. Van Gogh said: "The point I want to convey is that by the light of an oil lamp, the potato eaters grab the potatoes from their plates with their same hands that work on the land - they honestly fend for themselves." ”

Pingguo thought that this was the most important demonstration of Van Gogh's lofty compassion, a kind of pity for the peasants, and also a redemption for himself.

To say mercy, is Van Gogh's greatest weakness.

He started painting at the age of 27. Previously, he had worked as a clergyman. Young and vigorous, he longed to be a priest like his father through the very fanatical feelings he had for religion. But during the six months he worked as a trainee missionary in the Borinazh miners' area, he did not get the salvation he deserved, and even gave his clothes and food to the local miners, and even went down the mine with the miners to share their pain, but he felt a kind of pain, and felt that he had tried his best, but he was still powerless.

So, he's gone, he's going to start a new life, he's going to show it in his way. That is, sketching, sketching, desperately using color and soul to express the power and light conveyed by oil painting.

So Van Gogh had already drafted more than 50 drafts back and forth before painting the "potato eater", and he had also practiced portraits of peasants' heads.

At that time, his days should be described as torment. Because he has been three years old, he has become a typical "gnawing old family", and he has to live in his parents' house.

Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, complaining about his parents' unkindness to him and complaining that he was "not as good as a dog". So, when he painted those suffering people, he felt more pity for them and redeemed himself.

At that time, the colors of Van Gogh's paintings were basically dull and colorless.

Kindness, compassion, enthusiasm and obsession, and passion are the characteristics of Van Gogh's personality, and these are fully expressed in Van Gogh's extremely fanatical passion for painting. According to reports, from the time he officially started painting at the age of 27 to his suicide at the age of 37, Van Gogh painted more than 800 oil paintings and thousands of sketches. The more I got to the later stage, the more crazy I was painting.

Pingguo thinks that from Van Gogh's three relationships, it can be glimpsed:

In the first paragraph, the landlord's daughter, Eugeny. fell in love with her, but buried his feelings deep in his heart and couldn't express them until he was later exposed. Eugenie tells him that she has made a personal agreement with another tenant for life, and that her feelings of remorse must have affected his later emotional life.

The second paragraph, the widow's cousin Kay. This was unethical at the time, and Kai refused. Van Gogh chased him to Kai's house, and when he didn't see Kai, he put his hand on the candle and threatened his family that he wouldn't take it away until Kai appeared. However, Van Gogh's uncle blew out the candle, and Van Gogh's hopes were completely dashed. A few years later, he painted "Memories of the Garden of Aden" in Arles, and people said, "Isn't that woman Kai?"

In the third paragraph, the prostitute Sean. Soon, Van Gogh fell into a new love affair - in fact, Pingo believes that Van Gogh was wrong at the beginning, and he took a feeling of compassion for an attachment and an intake. In despair, there is also a woman who pities him, which makes him feel the warmth of the world, so he begins to do it again without hesitation, and is with the pregnant prostitute Sean. Sean not only modeled for him, but also cooked and washed his clothes, so Van Gogh, who felt the warmth of home, felt that he should marry her and be together forever. However, because Van Gogh did not have a stable source of income, he could not afford to pay for Sien's medical expenses. This relationship failed again in the end.

But from these three relationships, we can see a sincere obsession of Van Gogh - he wants to love someone passionately, no matter who she is, he wants to have her, so that she and him will become one forever.

Pingguo muttered to himself, alas, such warm feelings, especially from men, especially from Van Gogh, why in the end, will become a woman's fetters and ignorance.

In Pingguo's view, Van Gogh's most valuable thing is his childlike purity, kindness, and sincerity. All his compassion, love, and passion are all positive energy.

See, when Van Gogh was suffering from illness, the more bold and intense the colors under his brush, the brighter and more beautiful they were.

History says that he cut off a small part of his ear when he lived with the painter Gauguin in Arles. I heard that he invited his friend Gauguin to accept the invitation to live with him in the Yellow House, and he was very excited. Extra high-profile chairs, beds, etc. were prepared for Gauguin.

Later, the two quarreled on Christmas Eve, and Van Gogh wielded a knife and cut off a small piece of his ear. Van Gogh was considered insane and sent to the Sanatorium Saint-Rémy.

At the end of his rope, he turned against his friend Gauguin, and his younger brother Theo did not understand his brother's behavior. The torment of illness, the pain of his soul, and the psychology of despair, he spent his days in the sanatorium, and he excelled in painting, beyond everyone's imagination, and created the most favorite and well-known painting: "Starry Sky".

Pingguo thought, look, Van Gogh was still smart and beautiful in his world when he was most miserable and lost his freedom.

The level of an artist's achievements is determined by the amount of inspiration he has for future generations.

Before Impressionism, the realism of painting, the sense of light, and texture may have been used by people to evaluate the "art of oil painting", from Leonardo da Vinci to Rembrandt, people looked at precise lines, rigorous composition, light treatment, etc., and oil painting techniques were already very proficient.

But in the 19th century, with the invention of the camera, the meaning of oil painting to people changed. People began to try to use oil painting to express subjective feelings, rather than continue to respect objectivity, and the Impressionist master Monet made a sensation in Paris with a painting of "Sunrise Impression". By emphasizing the change of color in different light and shadow, and capturing the color of a unified scene in different light, oil painting has opened up a new way of thinking and filtering.

Van Gogh's paintings belong to Post-Impressionism. When he arrived in Paris in 1886, he was inspired by the Impressionists of the time, and then began to slowly develop his own style, painting his mood into his works, and subjective expression of consciousness replaced objective depiction. Later, Post-Impressionism inspired Fauvism (Matisse), Cubism (Picasso), Symbolism, Expressionism, and so on.

On the third floor of the Van Gogh Museum, Pinggo also saw the works of some contemporaries or later generations who were inspired by Van Gogh to create good paintings.

Pingguo smiled helplessly, feeling that he was the woman who was really influenced by Van Gogh.

Just take a stroll through the famous paintings in the French museum with his daughter Ping Hanhan:

"Potato Eaters, 1885", "Bridges across the Seine at Asnières, 1886", "The Courtesan", "Flowering Plum Tree", "Plum Park in Kameido", etc., "Sunflowers 1888", " The yellow house, 1888, Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888), Bedroom in Arles, Almond tree blossom (1890), and The Crow in the Rye, among others, Pingo always felt that a man was following him paradoxically.

Not far away, not close, all the way, but as long as Pingguo is looking for it, it doesn't exist at all.

This made Pingguo's arrhythmia, and in the depths of his soul, he began to feel doubts, and many thoughts and memories were reborn.

Shaking his head vigorously, the fog at that end floated away, Pingguo felt in his heart that the Van Gogh Museum was really fashionable, generous and caring, looking at the App they launched, Pingguo felt very interesting.

For example, "Touch Van Gogh", you can see the details of Van Gogh's paintings and the truth of the paintings on your mobile phone, which is infinitely interesting and appreciates the graceful color scenery of Van Gogh.

For example, "Yours, Vincent" collects Van Gogh's various letters, which can be seen in his obsessive understanding of Van Gogh's life and personality, as well as his paintings.

Finally, Ping Hanhan took Ping Guo to the Van Gogh Museum shop on the first floor of the museum (online store Van Gogh Museum Shop), lingering, hoping to take away a little Van Gogh memory. This is the most beautiful museum shop...... Those beautiful paintings, silk scarves, cups, pins, umbrellas...... In the end, Pingguo said, as a reward, your biological parents will give you an Apple 7 mobile phone as a reward for a double master's degree, and you can choose an Apple 7 shell as a dream memorial to Van Gogh.

Therefore, Pingguo naturally has the Van Gogh painting casing of Pingguo 6S, which is the sea of waves and sailboats, with rough waves up close and vast and quiet from afar.

And Ping Hanhan chose "A Magnolia" for himself.