Painting is polychrome as abundant as true life. Even the painters was unhappy in daily lives, they still draw so many beautiful and amazing pictures with their hearts of loving arts, like Van Gogh. Actually, they drew the pictures and drew the world at the same time. 

 

By:  Li Wang     134201228      Class 1

Painting art has the magical energy to keep our souls sweet, and then there are tough difficulties as same time as splendidness in the life. When the outstanding painters used kinds of pigments to draw their innermost worlds, they´re absorbed in happiness from colors and ideas. In this time, it is not important for them to worry about difficulties and troubles in lives.

Van Gogh (Dutch: Vincent Willem Van Gogh, 1853-1890), the Dutch post-impressionist painter. He is a pioneer of Expressionism, and deeply influenced the twentieth century art, especially Fauvism and German Expressionism. Van Gogh’s works, such as “Starry Night,” “Sunflowers” and “crow’s wheat”, is now among the world’s most names, ranks of well-known works of art. He voted the greatest among the Dutch in 2004 and ranked 10th, behind the great 17th-century painter ninth Rembrandt.

1861 Van Gogh began to education, learning languages, including French, German and English performed well, but in March 1868 interrupt their studies, and in July 1869 in the international art dealer company trainee. After a brief teaching career, he became a missionary, missionary to the poor miners. Until about 27 years old, Van Gogh began his career as a painter; However, during the last decade of his lifetime, but the creation of more than two thousand paintings, including about 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings.

Early Van Gogh only in dark colors to create, until he met Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. Van Gogh integrate their bright colors and style, created his unique personal style, especially Van Gogh stayed in Arles, France during that time, the development has matured. His most famous work is his most creative in his last two years, Van Gogh during mired in mental illness, and his last in his 37-year-old that year, he directed a way to commit suicide.

Van Gogh’s later life is full of hardship but it feels wonderful paintings showing abnormalities, giving others hope and warmth. Viewers can get some encourages and power to live more colorful. In painting, he was detached from the mundane chores outside, he is free and happy. Painting has changed Van Gogh, it also changed a lot of people. Survey shows that people generally believe that, compared with the black and white thing, the color in daily life brought swap effect is irreplaceable – it is inseparable from the role of decorative landscaping brings color and pleasing effect.

We can get inspiration from Van Gogh: Even when faced with hardship, you can also create a beautiful color, as long as we focus on their loved ones career or hobby, is not bound tie him down, life would not be so bad, or even bring happiness to others. Like paintings, like with their own interpretation of color, but also infect yourself with color, but the infection to others. So painting in the colorful world and painting the world colorful. The art of painting can change our life.

 

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