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Today’s Painting
今日畫作
Vincent van Gogh had great admiration for the work of the French artist Jean-François Millet. Like Millet, he wanted to paint peasant life. Van Gogh ultimately gave up this ambition and found his own direction, but he never completely lost sight of Millet. Millet was known as the great French painter of rural life. Vincent recognized himself in Millet's life story: a simple man, who grew up in a peasant family and was proud of his roots. This strengthened Vincent's resolve to paint peasant life, just like Millet. Millet made peasants the focus ofhis works and painted them respectfully, which was new for the time.
文森特·梵高對法國畫家讓·弗朗索瓦·米勒的作品深表欽佩。他同米勒一樣，想描繪農民生活。梵高最終放棄了這個雄心壯志，找到了自己的方向，但他從未完全忘記米勒。小米被譽為法國偉大的鄉村生活畫家。文森特在米勒的生活故事中看出了自己：一個簡單的人，在一個農民家庭中長大，併為自己的血統感到自豪。這增強了文森特描繪農民生活的決心，就像米勒那樣。米勒把農民當做自己繪畫的焦點，繪畫時態度很尊敬，而這在當時很少見。
Vincent studied Millet’s artworks closely. He drew countlessstudies of peasants working the land, and even made exact copies of Millet’s work. This was how Van Gogh practiced and tried to improve as an artist. Once Vincent encountered Millet’s work, he became immediately fascinated with his Sower. He had copied the work of Millet many times before, but he
aspired to paint his own, personal version. In the autumn of 1888, Vincent painted a sower, bringing together all that he had learned up until then: bright color contrasts of yellow and purple; diagonal lines crossing the image; and large, flat areas of color inspired by Japanese prints. This was Van Gogh’s own, modern Sower.文森特仔細研究了米勒的作品。他無數次描繪了在土地上耕作的農民，甚至精確地臨摹了米勒的畫作。作為畫家，梵高就是這樣實踐並不斷進步的。文森特第一次看見米勒的畫作，他立即痴迷於創作自己的《播種者》。他之前曾多次臨摹米勒的作品，但他渴望繪製自己的版本。1888年秋天，文森特畫了一個播種者，把他當時所學到的全部知識都彙集在一起：黃色與紫色的鮮明對比，穿過畫作的對角線；以及受日本版畫啟發的大面積扁平色彩。 這是梵高自己的現代版本的《播種者》。
Artist Introduction
畫家簡介
Vincent William Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.
文森特·威廉·梵高是一位荷蘭後印象派畫家，是西方藝術史上最著名，最有影響力的人物之一。在短短十年的時間裡，他創作了約2100幅藝術品，其中包括860幅油畫，大部分作品完成於他生命的最後兩年。作品包括風景，靜物，肖像和自畫像，並以大膽的色彩和戲劇性，以及富有衝動性與表現力的筆法為特徵，這對奠定現代藝術的基礎做出了貢獻。他飽受數年精神疾病和貧困的折磨，在37歲的時候自殺了。
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion, and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium. He drifted in ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881, having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter. His early works, mostly still lifes and depictions of peasant labourers, contain few signs of the vivid colour that distinguished his later work. In 1886 he moved to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting against the Impressionist sensibility. As his work developed he created a new approach to still lifes and local landscapes. His paintings grew brighter in colour as he developed a style that became fully realised during his stay in Arles in the south of France in 1888. During this period he broadened his subject matter to include olive trees, cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.
梵高出生於一箇中上層階級的家庭，他年幼時就開始畫畫，他個性認真，安靜又體貼。他年輕時是藝術品經紀人，經常出差，但在調動到倫敦後變得沮喪。他轉向宗教尋找寄託，並在比利時南部擔任新教傳教士。他搬回家與父母同住後，身體不適並陷入孤獨，直到1881年他再次繪畫。他的弟弟西奧在經濟上支持了他，兩人保持了長期的信件往來。他的早期作品主要是靜物寫生和對農民的描繪，很少採用鮮豔的顏色，而他後期作品則憑藉這一點脫穎而出。1886年，他移居巴黎，在那裡遇到了先鋒派成員，包括埃米爾·伯納德和保羅·高更，他們反對印象派的敏感性。隨著作品的發展，他創造了一種新的方法來描繪靜物和當地景觀。1888年，他在法國南部的阿爾勒逗留期間，他的繪畫風格變得更加鮮明，他的畫隨之也變得更加明亮。在此期間，他將繪畫的題材擴大到包括橄欖樹，柏樹，麥田和向日葵。
Van Gogh suffered from
psychotic episodes and delusions and though he worried about his mental stability, he often neglected his physical health, did not eat properly and drank heavily. His friendship with Gauguin ended after a confrontation with a razor, when in a rage, he severed part of his own left ear. He spent time in psychiatric hospitals, including a period at Saint-Rémy. After he discharged himself and moved to the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, he came under the care of the homeopathic doctor Paul Gachet. His depression continued and on 27 July 1890, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He died from his injuries two days later.梵高患有精神錯亂和妄想，儘管他擔心自己心理的穩定性，他卻經常忽略自己的身體健康，他飲食不當，而且酗酒。他拿著剃鬚刀與高更發生衝突，之後兩人的友誼結束。憤怒時，他割下了自己左耳的一部分。他在精神病醫院度過了一段時間，其中就包括聖雷米醫院。他出院後搬到了巴黎附近瓦茲河畔奧韋爾的拉武客棧，之後他受到順勢療法醫生保羅·嘉舍的照顧。他持續抑鬱，1890年7月27日，梵高用左輪手槍向自己的胸部開槍。兩天後，他因傷病去世了。
Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime, and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist "where discourses on madness and creativity converge". His reputation began to grow in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. He attained widespread critical, commercial and popular success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter, whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist.
梵高一生未果，被認為是瘋子和失敗者。他自殺後就聞名於世，人們把他想象成一個典型的被誤解的天才，一個處於“瘋狂與創造力長篇交匯的位置”的畫家。20世紀初他繪畫風格的元素被野獸派和德國表現主義者所採納，他的聲譽也隨之開始增長。在隨後的幾十年中，他在商業上獲得了廣泛且具有批判性的成功，被大眾所喜愛，並被公認為是一位重要但悲慘的畫家，其精神疾病成為了這位藝術家飽受折磨但心懷浪漫理想的典型特徵。
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