What is good about Van Gogh's paintings?

Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters. He is the only love in my heart forever. Many years ago, I couldn't understand Van Gogh. When I was a child, I studied painting, drawing that kind of fine brushwork of beautiful women, painting carefully bit by bit, "drawing like" is my highest understanding of painting works. At that time, I really couldn't understand Van Gogh who "didn't draw much like". Later, in a bar, the owner of the bar had good taste in the local area and hung some paintings that I couldn't understand when I was young. Once I was hit by both academic disappointments and lovelorn. I got drunk in a bar and even began to hallucinate. I saw the picture on the wall. There were whirlpool nebulae in the sky, stars twinkling, cypress trees like a flame under the night, and the small village was shrouded in peace and tranquility. Suddenly I felt that the whole world had calmed down, and all my resentment seemed to find an outlet. My sadness was understood, and I saw tears in front of this picture. Later, you all know that this painting is starry night. What you saw at that time was only a copy.

From this opportunity, I suddenly understood Van Gogh. The quality of a work of art is far more than "like it or not". If it is like that, wouldn't it be good to take photos? The picture pixel is still so high. In "loving Vincent", it is mentioned that Vincent wrote a letter to his brother Theo: "when I draw a sun, I hope people feel that it is rotating at an amazing speed and sending out terrible waves of light and heat. When I draw a wheat field, I hope people feel that wheat is working towards their final maturity and blooming." The most special thing about Van Gogh's works is that they can make you have emotional resonance. I always feel that this emotional resonance runs through his works. Of course, the color matching is also very good, but his later works are separated from a gray tone, and emotional resonance has existed from his early works to his last work on his deathbed. You can feel his mood at that time from the layers of brush strokes, colors and pigments in the picture, and even the sound he can hear and the light and shadow he can see at that time. You can clearly feel what his paintings want to convey to you through the canvas everything his eyes see and his heart feels. So can you understand? His paintings are emotional, powerful and infectious, and you can feel the vitality and the fluidity of time and space in the static picture. (what I said refers to the original paintings and the album with very good printing quality. Many low-end prints, poor paper and ink can't let you experience these.) Look at starry night (my favorite and most famous work, which is also a copy of my first Van Gogh work). The stars shine in the night sky. You can feel the wind blowing at night, the clouds floating, the cypress swaying like a flame, and the stars flickering.

Watching "crows in the wheat field", you can feel the waves rolling in the wheat field, and you can even hear the crows' cries rising and falling overhead. On the eve of the storm, the clouds are on the top, and the three roads lead to the distance with no end in sight. They all stop abruptly, which makes you afraid and confused.

The sunflowers and sunflower seeds he painted stand upright with an uncontrollable vitality, and they are taking root and sprouting rudely.

The coffee shop he painted, with all kinds of colors shouting, broke into each other's interior. You will feel that you ordered absinthe in this coffee shop that day, and that's the scene.

This is the vitality and emotion of art works. No matter how many years have passed, it can help you recover the situation at that time, and you can enter him at once. There is a high number of answers above, which also said that the quality of an art work should be combined with the background and mentality of the creator at the time of creation. I have seen many books, films and documentaries about him. The BBC has a documentary "the power of art", a total of 8 episodes, which introduces 8 painters who have a far-reaching impact on future generations, including van Gogh. He regarded life as a pilgrimage process and himself as a missionary, who specially preached the gospel to the poor. When he saw those helpless people, drunk people and some prostitutes, he wanted to find people who longed for light. So he gave up his previous life. In 1880, Van Gogh, 27, decided to start painting. Why do I love him so much? Because I can understand him, I learned painting, long-term boring practice day after day, and long-term unappreciation in the future. If the painting can't be sold and rejected by your family, you will fall into a mood of self denial. And he is the one who has been tortured by life and is at the bottom of the same society. He can see people who are more unfortunate than him and wants to speak for them. Later, he went back to live with his parents, who disliked him and did not welcome him back. They thought he was like a dirty stray dog and told their neighbors that he was an ugly monster. Even when he was bruised by life and even his family hated him, his paintings were still full of affection. Everyone may have obsessions. For the ideal that will never collapse in his heart, he is poor in the secular world, and his works are not appreciated. He shouldn't go to painting, but he still insists on using the money to buy food to buy paint. After reading his original painting, you can see how generous he is to paint. His heart is extremely loyal to himself. Thinking of this, you will experience his mood and emotion when painting each painting, So it's hard not to resonate in his paintings. Under such circumstances, he painted the potato eater.

So do you see Van Gogh better here? Although he has been manipulated by life and covered with scars, he has compassion for all sentient beings in his heart, and this compassion can be seen and touched on the canvas, and you can be moved by it. Most of Van Gogh's works that many people are familiar with were created in the last two or three years of his life, during his stay in St. Remy's mental hospital and in Orville, a small French town where his last soul returned. The evaluation of an artist's good or bad influence also depends on his influence on later generations, whether anyone did this before him, and his influence on other artists after him. After cutting off a small piece of his ear, he was admitted to St. Remi psychiatric hospital. Schizophrenia destroyed him and made him. Schizophrenia is that adults maintain a state of early infants or children. According to psychoanalysis, infants three months ago are in a paranoid split mental state. "Split" is the world divided into two, and good and bad cannot coexist. "Paranoia" is that there is only good or bad in the world, and I am good. This is the world of infants three months ago, Adults will come out of this state, and schizophrenics will always stay in this state. The ego is a cage that separates itself from other beings in the world. It is like a shell. Most people need this shell to protect themselves, but people with this shell are not so sensitive to the world, and Van Gogh's shell is broken, so his sensitivity to the world is much higher than ordinary people, which makes him painful, but also makes his observation of the world more nuanced. So he kept the state of a child and observed the world in more detail, which led to the brighter color of his later works, separated from the gray color system, bolder color matching, more daring to try and innovate, more expressing his subjective feelings and real emotions, and not just simply recording what the objective naked eye saw, There is more about the emotion he can feel and his emotional expression of color in the state of schizophrenia. He recombines the things he sees with the naked eye and the emotions he feels inside, arranges them abstractly with his own understanding, and conveys them to others with more intense and contrasting colors. No one has painted this before him, so he is a pioneer of postmodern expressionism. For me, my favorite Van Gogh works appeared in this period, including starry night and starry night on the Ronald river. I have said so much. In fact, I want to say that words can never express one in ten thousand of his paintings and his love for life and art. In this world, people are born sorry, and everyone has a lot of helplessness. Although he lives such a difficult life, he still loves life and art, and has compassion for all sentient beings. What his works present to everyone is always the purest beauty, isn't it worth touching? I only hope that someone can understand his loneliness. If you know his loneliness, you will also know all kinds of lonely people in the world. In so many years of love for Van Gogh, when I look at all the scenery outside, my mind will automatically add Van Gogh filters to what I see in front of me: his color tones and the stippling strokes shown in his pictures. I can imagine him painting what I see and think. The more I love him, the more I love his paintings, the more I want to know him, and the more I can understand him. I love that he was not appreciated before his death, and that he died in self doubt. If you really have a time machine, would you be a little more relieved to see that your paintings are now hung in the museum and you don't know how many people come to worship every day? I've seen a clip I love very much. A few days ago, my friend sent it to me again. Without exception, I still cried after watching it. You who also love Van Gogh will love him. I hope there is such a day. It's not only mountains and rivers that are lonely in the world. They lived in the same era with you in the previous life. It's the biggest thing to see your painting with your own eyes in this life