"Connect Van Gogh!"

Xu Zhiyuan entered the system and searched for Van Gogh, the most controversial master in Western art history. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info a middle-aged man with a thin face, blank eyes, and even a little obscene appeared in front of him.

"Red-haired, god-talking, yes, only one ear!"

Xu Zhiyuan looked at Van Gogh, who was a little confused in front of him, and recalled his knowledge of his life: Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch post-impressionist painter. Born into a Protestant clergyman's family, he was a pioneer of Post-Impressionism and deeply influenced twentieth-century art, especially Fauvism and Expressionism, and his work was influenced by the French realist painter Millet.

Van Gogh worked in gray and dark colors in his early days, until he met the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists in Paris, incorporating their bright colors and painting styles to create his own unique personal style.

Most of his most famous works were created in the last two years of his life, during which Van Gogh suffered from a deep mental illness that led him to suicide at the age of 37.

After Van Gogh's death, Van Gogh's works, such as "Starry Night", "Sunflowers" and "Wheat Field with Crows", have become among the most famous and precious works of art in the world. Van Gogh's works are currently housed at the Musée d'Orsay in France and the Kunshaus in Zurich.

For Van Gogh, Xu Zhiyuan has only two evaluations, mentally ill and poor poor! That's right, don't look at his paintings now, they are casually millions of dollars, but for Van Gogh during his lifetime, he was poor all his life, mixed in the slums and dusty places, he would never have imagined that he would become a top master of art after his death!

In December 1888, after living with another master, Gauguin, for two months, Van Gogh cut off his left ear and wrapped it in a newspaper and gave it to a 19-year-old woman. After cutting their ears, the two parted ways. He first lived in a general hospital, and Theo came to Arles to give him care and treatment, and gradually Van Gogh's condition began to improve, and he also began to paint.

The doctor's name was Ray, and he was Van Gogh's attending physician. Dr. Ray was in charge of Van Gogh's treatment at the hospital in Arles. He was especially kind to Van Gogh, and in order to help Van Gogh recover, he encouraged Van Gogh to continue his work. However, every time Van Gogh went back to the Yellow House, he was attacked and watched by children on the way, so he and his wife went to the Yellow House in person and took back Van Gogh's frame and painter. Van Gogh was very touched by his special care and support.

Van Gogh followed him like a child attached to his father every day, refusing to leave. Later, in order to repay him, Van Gogh insisted on giving him this portrait, and he accepted it for reasons to protect the patient's feelings, and later this painting was actually put into the chicken coop as a baffle. Fortunately, after Van Gogh became famous, his family found the painting from the chicken coop, and although it was damaged, it brought an unexpected benefit to his family.

In March 1889, Van Gogh, who had recovered from his condition, was free to go back, but was always harassed by some children on the street, who even hit Van Gogh with stones, and he showed his anger, and the residents of Arles jointly petitioned the mayor to send Vincent to the hospital again.

Later, the police seized the Yellow House and all the paintings, and at the same time, news came that his brother Theo was married. In such a situation, Van Gogh took the initiative to ask to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital. In fact, at this time, he could have lived with Theo, but in order not to drag down his newly married brother, he resolutely admitted to the Saint-Rémy Mental Hospital in May 1889.

At that time, the treatment conditions in the psychiatric hospital were very poor. Many patients were forced to wear heavy tights, their movements were restricted, and there were no newspapers, no free access, and no private conversations.

Because of his love for him, his younger brother Theo opened two rooms for Van Gogh, one with a view of the garden and the other as a studio. At that time, Van Gogh looked out of this window to look out at the scenery, n here, Van Gogh was more free, he could paint, but he could still feel lonely and lonely from his paintings.

There are no partition walls, and there are some simple curtains separating the patients, and the conditions are quite simple. No reading newspapers, no listening to the radio, these rules are to avoid irritation to the patient, and because of this, it becomes more dull and depressing.

In such a small space, with many patients, Van Gogh became more and more depressed and very nervous. From his painting called "Patient at St. Paul's Hospital", it can be seen that he deliberately destroyed the picture in extreme tension and boredom, and the face level in the final painting is particularly strange and terrifying.

The following year he resumed painting. Started copying Miller, Rembrandt and Gustave? Doré's work. This is his copy of Miller's "Lunch Break", Miller is Van Gogh's spiritual icon, and in the process of copying his work, Van Gogh added his own emotions, so the picture is more brilliant than the original. This process is also to eliminate the depressed emotions in the hospital. At this point, he wrote to Theo that he wanted to go back to the north, and perhaps he was too sad to be here. In December, he became ill again and swallowed paint to poison himself.

In January 1890, at the "Exhibition of Twenty" in Brussels, Van Gogh's "The Red Vineyard" was purchased by Ugenou, the only work he was able to sell during his lifetime, and it is said to cost 450 francs.

In March, Van Gogh also exhibited his paintings at the Independent Art Exhibition in Paris, and many painters spoke highly of his works. For the first time, his younger brother Theo felt that society recognized his brother, and he was very happy.

It was this painting that freed Van Gogh from the nightmare of a psychiatric hospital, and he ran to the doctor with 450 francs and told him that I had an income, and that I was fine, and that I was going to use the money to get out of here and find a better place to recuperate.

The doctor, after consulting Theo, agreed. Van Gogh was as excited as a child at this time, he could finally leave this hellish place, breathe air freely, and paint freely.

In fact, in the end, Van Gogh did not die in a mental hospital, but committed suicide while recuperating in Orville. His condition was gradually improving, and he also found a doctor in Auvers who understood him and supported his paintings, Dr. Gachet. But this stage is also the stage where Van Gogh needs the most support, but unfortunately, at this time, his younger brother fell into an economic crisis, so it can be said that Van Gogh did not die of mental illness in the end, but of despair and family affection. In other words, he didn't want to be a burden to his younger brother.