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Statistics says that when answering the question about the most famous artist, the majority says three names: Leonardo, Picasso and Van Gogh. Further, it turns out that Leonardo da Vinci is the universal genius of the Renaissance, Picasso is an inventor who achieved fame and fortune, and only Vincent van Gogh is a true genius of painting, whose crazy hand was led by God.
The general opinion is a dubious thing, but looking at the picture "Red Vineyards in Arles", one can agree with it.
One of the few sold in life
The life of outstanding people is full of mysteries and myths. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) lived his life for a period of 37 years, classic for geniuses, was actively engaged in painting for about 10, but managed to go from a self-taught beginner to a master who turned the world of painting upside down. This causes surprise and questions for everyone who is interested in art, and haunts fans of sensationalism and conspiracy theories. It is believed that the Dutch master created his canvases under the influence of mental illness, which brought him to the grave. Others represent him as a prudent businessman who, together with his brother Theo, a successful art dealer, was looking for a wayconquer the market with an unseen style of painting and make a fortune.
Yes, Van Gogh paintings are now one of the most expensive auction lots, one of the most profitable investments. And during his lifetime, the work "Red Vineyards in Arles" was bought at the exhibition of the "Group of Twenty", which was held in Brussels in 1890. It was bought for 400 francs (about 2,000 today's dollars) by the artist Anna Bosch. According to some reports, she then sold it, because she could not paint in her style - pointillism and neo-impressionism, while a Van Gogh painting was burning with colors on the wall.
This masterpiece can now be viewed in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin on Volkhonka. This happened thanks to the famous collector Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin, who highly appreciated the art of contemporary artists.
History of writing
In 1888, Van Gogh moved from Paris to Provence, in the south of France. In the town of Arles, he rents a small house as a studio. He was inspired by the idea of organizing a commune of artists whom he met in the capital. In particular, he invited Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) who spent about two months in Arles, which ended in a violent conflict and an incomprehensible excess, as a result of which Van Gogh lost part of his ear. There are many murky theories and conjectures built around this story, it became the first vivid manifestation of the mental illness that defeated Van Gogh in the end.
But the main thing was that the period spent by the master among the bright southern colors, among the landscapesProvence, which conquered the artist, became for Van Gogh one of the most fruitful. Portraits, landscapes, the famous "Sunflowers", "Night Cafe", "Starry Night over the Rhone" - all this was painted in Arles and its environs. "Red Vineyards in Arles" was the result of one walk, described by the artist in a letter to his brother Theo. The setting sun reddened the coastal vineyard, creating for a while a world of unprecedented color combinations that only a real painter is destined to see and capture.
Description
On the coastal plot of land, at the bend of a small river, work is underway to harvest grapes. The bright sun is leaning towards the horizon, flooding the sky with blazing gold, reflecting in a blinding path in the water, coloring the foliage of the vineyard in the foreground with different shades of crimson. Figures of working women and wagons can be seen in the middle of the field. They are written in complex shades of blue and have a characteristic dark outline, now clear, now shimmering in the evening air. The trees enclosing the field, going to the horizon, are also written. The painting "Red Vineyards in Arles" is an amazing harmony of warm, hot colors with a cold shimmer of shades of blue and blue, a very complex green.
Where no firevine fires were left in the foreground, patches of bare ground appeared. It looks like either cooling metal or fading firewood, when flashing fiery tongues are replaced by quivering flakes of ash on the bumpy surfaces of charcoal and ash.
Somewhere you can see the last sparks of sunlight, but notblinding, and extinguished - pink, purple, peach. They smooth out those color combinations that would be a terrible dissonance if they were pulled out of the general canvas of the picture and shown as separate spots on a neutral background. But this smoothing does not extinguish the energy of individual strokes and strokes, various in shape and size. "Red vineyards in Arles" - a seething cauldron of color and energy, welded into a single harmony by the genius of the master.
New stage
Those who have visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which houses the largest collection of paintings by the master, say that it is physically difficult to look at his paintings for a long time. This is especially true of everything that was created after the Parisian stage of life and creativity. The earthy, restrained coloring of the Potato Eaters' time was replaced by ringing, pure colors. Such are the Red Vineyards at Arles. Vincent van Gogh uses here found in the south of France, in "Sunflowers" and "Yellow House", the special vibrations of yellow, which embraces the hot flames of orange and red.
But it is important to know something else - Van Gogh's work is based on high intelligence. The story of an insane self-taught, making senseless uncontrolled movements of the brush, applying arbitrary strokes and stains - this is not about him. Each picture of the Dutchman is a wise parable about the world and man, about the meaning and beauty of life. No wonder Van Gogh's literary work in the form of letters to his brother Theodore, containing discussions about creative searches and discoveries, is of great value. In them he is well-read,the most educated person with knowledge and theoretical base.
Everyone finds their own
Truly great works of art are multi-layered, each viewer finds his own in them, due to the preparation of the mind and soul. Van Gogh's painting "Red Vineyards in Arles" is a story full of energy and emotions about the unity of man and nature, about the meaning and rationality of being, about the endless flow of time.
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