This great Dutch artist Van Gogh .. How much is said about him until now. About his personal life, suicide, but most of all about pictures that will not leave anyone indifferent.
The main object of mapping for Impressionist artists was human nature. And most brightly it was depicted in all its contradictions and embellishments in the works of the great Dutch artist Van Gogh.
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), one of the great Dutch artists, had a very strong influence on impressionism in painting
When Van Gogh turned 27 years old, he decided to dedicate his entire life to painting. "I can not express how happy I am that I started drawing again, I often thought about it, but I thought drawing was beyond my ability."
Van Gogh many researchers consider self-taught, although, for the sake of justice, it must be said that he took lessons from A. Mauve.
In 1886, Van Gogh finally moved to Paris. Arrival in the capital of France slightly adjusted the style of the maestro. He still felt sympathy and love for a small man, but this character is different - a resident of the French capital, the creator himself.
Arrival in Paris changed the artist's view of the world. He already seems to him more joyful and bright. Van Gogh draws the corners of Montmartre, the bridges of the Seine, theaters, and most importantly, he feels himself to be a Frenchman. Van Gogh was relentlessly searching for the technique of light and color, but in gray Paris he could not do it. And then he decided to go south. It is there that a new period begins in his work. Here he felt that there was absolutely no difference between him and his mentor, Rembrandt.
Van Gogh seems impossible even, perfect smear. "An ordered smear" is as impossible as fencing in the assault. " Van Gogh is more than an impressionist, because he tries several times to change his technique, even within the same picture. After all, every object on the canvas - what's new, different in its characteristics and characteristics, and the artist's hand hastens to reflect all these changes. The main thing, according to Van Gogh, is to work by inspiration, at the first impression, which is always bright.
His world is constantly changing, in an eternal cycle, growth. The artist's task is to perceive these objects not only as motionless objects, but also as phenomena. Van Gogh does not represent one moment at all, he conveys the continuity of the moments, the leitmotif of every object - being in his tireless dynamics. Now we understand why the Van Gogh study is not just an etude, it is a whole cosmic picture that shows objects, phenomena and the person himself from an abstract point of view. Van Gogh depicts not the sun itself, but its arrows of rays aimed at the earth or how the sun wakes up and comes out of a golden mist.
For Van Gogh it is considered wrong to depict a tree as it is, because in his view the tree is an organism similar to the human, which means that it constantly grows and develops. Its cypresses are like Gothic temples, which are torn to the sky. Screwed by the unbearable heat, they rise, like the huge, swirling tongues of a green flame, and if they are bushes, they burn on the ground like bonfires.
To understand the dynamic manner of Van Gogh, one should refer to his portraits.
Portrait of "Berceuse". It depicts a fishing nanny, which, as local people say, goes to the boats in the evenings, and in bad weather tells tales. In all this must portray in the portrait of Van Gogh - a woman who must be rough, uncouth, tired - as her life style says, and at the same time incredibly kind - she is the keeper of fairy tales. This picture Van Gogh was going to give to St. Marie - a shelter for sailors ...
Let's turn to the self-portrait of the artist. Here he appeared before us in a way that we never could have imagined. Tired, nervous facial expression, like a mask, under which lies the tense state of the soul.
Van Gogh believed that the technique expressiveness plays a big role, but much more important fact of expressiveness he considered coloring. Paints in the artist's value system were not just an ornament or a way to portray a character brighter. Paints play no less important role than the drawing itself. Without properly selected colors there is no etude, portrait, and even the author himself.
So every color for Van Gogh has a certain meaning, a mystery, a mystery, which he himself did not fully explain to himself. After all, the picture is a whole vast world that can never be understood and explained. Of all the color words, he preferred yellow and blue.
Dominant in the system of impressionism - color. In the picturesque Van Gogh system, we notice a complete set of constituent colors: rhythm, color, texture, line, shape.
The colors of Van Gogh do not just dominate the work, they sound. Paints sound in any intonation over the entire length of the emotional range, from deadly pain to a variety of shades of joy. Paints in the palette of Van Gogh are divided into two palettes. For him, cold and warm - as a source of life and death. At the head of these systems - yellow and blue, both colors have an unusually deep symbolism.
Color, color, genuine reality - that's what Van Gogh is.