凡高英文

凡高英文
凡高英文

凡高英文
荷兰艺术家 凡高 (1853--1890）
文森特·凡高(1853～1890年)生于南布拉邦特的格鲁宗戴尔,逝于瓦兹河畔安威尔.说起来,他成为画家的日子是1885年 12月.那时,他开始了既多产又短促的艺术生涯,因为他只需五年便完成了伟大的事业.在那时,如果他不是有个突如其来的显露,我 们今天无疑会把他作为表现劳动与贫困,工农辛苦的伟大画家,作为荷兰表现主义的第一人来纪念了.
他之成为画家乃是为了解决撕裂他灵魂的内心冲突,是为了对生活中遭受的挫折进 行报复.他出身于一个新教牧师之家,不过,有两个作绘画批发商的叔叔,这使他得以在海牙由他叔叔转让给巴黎古比尔的画廊,作了店 员.不久,画店把他派往伦敦的英国分店工作.在伦敦,他爱上了房主的女儿,并向她求婚.不幸,他遭到拒绝.他那不稳定的,过份神 经质和过份认真的性格使这一挫折分外沉重.他离开伦敦,于1875年回到巴黎总店.很快,他便对以巴黎为中心的思潮和运动着了迷 .他阅读一切能找到的书籍,参观博物馆受到同情卑贱者苦难的那些人道主义作家、画家的影响.
"Vincent van Gogh was born near Brabant, the son of a minister. In 1869, he got a position at the art dealers, Goupil and Co. in The Hague, through his uncle, and worked with them until he was dismissed from the London office in 1873. He worked as a schoolmaster in England (1876), before training for the ministry at Amsterdam University (1877). After he failed to get a post in the Church, he went to live as an independent missionary among the Borinage miners.
"He was largely self-taught as an artist, although he received help from his cousin, Mauve. His first works were heavily painted, mud-colored and clumsy attempts to represent the life of the poor (e.g. Potato-Eaters, 1885, Amsterdam), influenced by one of his artistic heroes, Millet. He moved to Paris in 1886, living with his devoted brother, Theo, who as a dealer introduced him to artists like Gauguin, Pissarro, Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec. In Paris, he discovered color as well as the divisionist ideas which helped to create the distinctive dashed brushstrokes of his later work (e.g. Pere Tanguy, 1887, Paris). He moved to Arles, in the south of France, in 1888, hoping to establish an artists' colony there, and was immediately struck by the hot reds and yellows of the Mediterranean, which he increasingly used symbolically to represent his own moods (e.g. Sunflowers, 1888, London, National Gallery). He was joined briefly by Gauguin in October 1888, and managed in some works to combine his own ideas with the latter's Synthetism (e.g. The Sower, 1888, Amsterdam), but the visit was not a success. A final argument led to the infamous episode in which Van Gogh mutilated his ear.
"In 1889, he became a voluntary patient at the St. Remy asylum, where he continued to paint, often making copies of artists he admired. His palette softened to mauves and pinks, but his brushwork was increasingly agitated, the dashes constructed into swirling, twisted shapes, often seen as symbolic of his mental state (e.g. Ravine, 1889, Otterlo). He moved to Auvers, to be closer to Theo in 1890 - his last 70 days spent in a hectic program of painting. He died, having sold only one work, following a botched suicide attempt. His life is detailed in a series of letters to his brother (published 1959)."
Vincent van Gogh is well-regarded as one of the greatest and most famous artists, ever. His life and work has inspired and influenced much of art history since his tragic death in 1890. In fact, what many people today consider to be the archetypical "artist personna" is largely a result of his influence.