Now I think I know what you try to say to me

Sophia 2022-04-09 08:01:02

Van Gogh's original intention was very simple: to get a job, hoping that he could inherit the mantle of his father and spread the gospel!

When he came to a remote coal mine, came into contact with the marginalized people and experienced civil suffering, his identity changed from a pastor to a volunteer!

The role of a volunteer is very meager and limited! The church sent people to inspect his work, found him in rags, and accused him of damaging the image and status of the church! He finally couldn't bear to yell at them: hypocrite! hypocrite!

He is always alone, and this terrible loneliness is spiritual! He has questioned the noble church!

In the end, he chose to pick up the brush again and put everything on nature and labor. He wanted to do more practical work to show God's mercy! He also needs his own value and love in painting. . . But he is still suffering and lonely? !

A song called Vincent (Vincent) can be regarded as a classic in American folk music. Its singer is the famous folk singer Don Mclean. He dedicated this touching song to the great artist, Vincent van Gogh. He moved the whole world to love life while touching him. , People with hope... Once, in front of the Van Gogh Memorial Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, people could always hear this song. She played it over and over again, and it will always be touching and memorable.


I was very touched by Van Gogh's action of cutting his ears. Some people felt "sympathetic to each other". Some people are very weak in emotional control, and lack of communication is also a form of self-abuse! Van Gogh had too few friends, and once the only Gauguin left him, it would no longer be surprising for such a bizarre and unusual act of cutting his ears!

So the most heartbreaking thing in the world is betrayal, betrayal by friends, abandonment by relatives, and psychological suffering. . . And there is no hope. . . Totally desperate!

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Extended Reading
  • Harley 2022-04-15 09:01:07

    Van Gogh's passionate life was buried in a world without plague or fire! Considered to be the best biographical film of Van Gogh, it is different!

  • Jane 2022-04-14 09:01:07

    A good biographical film. The Academy messed up when KD didn't get the award.

Lust for Life quotes

  • Vincent Van Gogh: When I paint the sun, I want people to feel it revolving, giving off light and heat.

  • Tersteeg: Well no offense meant, but you'll be better off without him around your neck.

    Theo Van Gogh: I think I'm the best judge of that.

    Tersteeg: No, the worst. You've been pushing his paintings, and every time you do that we lose a customer. As your employer, I tell you for your own good: your love for Vincent has blinded your judgement. It's effected your work.

    Theo Van Gogh: Please don't let's wrangle again about that! I'll go on fighting for every good painter who deserves to be recognized, and Vincent is one of them. He, he could be the best of them!

    Tersteeg: What? Hmm, you're his brother. You're emotional about him.

    Theo Van Gogh: Well that has nothing to do with it.

    Tersteeg: Well what is it when you brood about him? When you agonize over his every failure? When you support him to the point of denying yourself? You save every letter he wrote as-as though it w-were Holy Scriptures. Oh come now Theo, don't you really think you've done enough for him?

    Theo Van Gogh: How much is enough... for a man who's struggling with himself the way Vincent is? Oh I know he's crude and quarrelsome and excitable, but inside that tormented head of his there's - there's something wonderful. In those letters, there's a gifted man - a tender man, and there's far more passionate beauty and strength in his work than there is in half the stuff you see in the museums today. I wonder if there will ever come a happy time for him. It seems impossible for him to have a quiet life.

    Tersteeg: The change may do him good. Maybe he'll find himself.

    Theo Van Gogh: Or will he only find more loneliness?