A series about a painting by van gogh. The investigation is being conducted by the postman. Special workstations were created for the film.

So, it happened! From November 9th in Russian hire full-length cartoon
"Van Gogh. Love, Vincent. " For several years the Polish-British project "Loving Vincent"
so recklessly fueled the attention of the audience that fans of Van Gogh's work and moviegoers
against their will, they founded a virtual fan club.

Animation tape revived dozens of post-impressionist works
and tens of thousands of paintings painted in his style. Over six years
about 100 artists from 20 countries created this tape frame by frame.

Investigative film about the last days and death of Van Gogh "Loving Vincent",
based on his paintings and correspondence, became the first full-length cartoon,
completely painted in oil on canvas.

The plot of an animated picture dedicated to the great artist Vincent van Gogh.
unfolds around 120 paintings by the maestro and his extensive correspondence.

"With love, Vincent!" gathered not only artists, but also actors:
in the film we will also see footage and black-and-white footage.
A photo shoot in color also looks impressive. It's Vincent!

The role of Van Gogh went to the Polish theater actor Robert Gulaczyk - two years ago they called him and said that he looked like a Dutch artist, Robert went to the casting (he was offered to read Vincent's letters in English), and immediately got the main role.

"Van Gogh. With love, Vincent "- the official Russian trailer for the cartoon.

For the Russian rental, the main characters were voiced by Konstantin Khabensky, Maxim Matveev and Irina Gorbacheva.

Directed and Written by Dorota Kobela and Hugh Welshman, Filmed Essentially a Detective
about the investigation into the circumstances of the mysterious death of one of the greatest artists of the 19th century.

Before proceeding with the technical execution, the authors thoroughly studied
available materials about Van Gogh. O preparatory stages and ideological plans
British producer Hugh Welchman says:

“We have read Van Gogh's letters and more than forty publications about the artist:
biographies, scholarly publications, essays and fictional novels, looked
main documentary and movies about his life, talked
with experts from the Van Gogh Museum. Visited 19 museums in six countries in four years
and saw more than 400 works of the artist.

We set ourselves strict requirements for script writing.
As a mantra, we took the words of Van Gogh, written in one of the last letters to his brother:

"We cannot speak otherwise than with our pictures."

The world premiere of the film took place on June 13 at the Annecy International Film Festival in France and won the Audience Award. Two months later, the film also won the Audience Award at the Osted International Film Festival (Belgium).

"With love, Vincent" is a unique international project, the world's first film,
where each of the 65 thousand frames is a hand-painted oil painting.
At first, the tape was filmed as a fiction, with live actors, and then painted by the team
artists in the style of paintings by Van Gogh.

Skillful composition of acting, stylized "Van Gogh" paintings
and the works of Van Gogh himself, patience, manual labor, modern technologies and years of work
- that's what the animated feature film "With love, Vincent" is

The painters worked on the film, who created - neither more nor less - 62,450 oil paintings, inheriting the style of Vincent Van Gogh. “We make exact copies of Van Gogh's paintings. But they often have to adapt, change or enlarge, add elements that do not appear on the originals, ”the artists say.

Critics call the film a "masterpiece of animation", and the producers of the project
preparing an exhibition in 's-Hertogenbosch, dedicated to the history of the film.
The Museum in 's Hertogenbosch is the only museum in the south of the Netherlands where
the original works of Van Gogh are kept.

Not to love Vincent is by definition impossible. Its bright and eaten
in the minds of the paintings are the most recognizable works of art in the world,
and in his entire life he created more than 2000 works.

The film does not redraw the master's paintings, the plot is based on information
from Van Gogh's correspondence with his brother Theo. The creators set themselves a goal,
tell about Van Gogh's life with his works and his style. Pictures come to life
and try to tell what and how his master lived last years.
Also, will the question of death be raised, suicide or was he accidentally killed?

The film calls to love Vincent, love his work and respect
hard work and originality of a brilliant artist. So let's go to the cinemas
and support the creators, they just call to love Vincent.

It would seem that Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) and, the two greatest artists of the second half of the XIX century, there could be a lot in common. But their short communication ended in tragedy.

Fate decreed that van Gogh and Gauguin ended up in one place at the same time. And those 70 days that they were destined to spend in Arles, a city in the south of France, became a difficult test for them. But if for Paul the difficult neighborhood turned only into an unpleasant memory, for Vincent living together turned into a loss of physical and mental health. After all, the crazy story with the severed ear took place there, and there is still no definite answer to the question of what role Gauguin played in it.

The artists' motives for settling in Arles were different. Vincent van Gogh was obsessed with the idea of ​​creating a commune. It was for the South Studio that a small yellow house was filmed in the city.

The realization of this dream demanded a lot of stress from Vincent, because fate was rarely favorable to him. The artist worked as a consultant for the sale of paintings, was a teacher, mastered theology and read sermons to the Belgian miners. But the versatile activity in his soul did not find a lively response.

Things were no better on the personal front: a relationship with a street woman ended with a "bad" illness and a pernicious passion for absinthe.

The paintings were not for sale, creativity did not provide even a modest existence, and in order to start the next work, the artist often had to borrow canvas and paints from Tanguy's father, a dealer in drawing materials.

By the way, he exhibited paintings by van Gogh, "unclaimed" at that time, in his shop window.

By the time of his arrival in Arles, the artist was thin, extremely emaciated, a thirty-five-year-old man who had lost half of his teeth with a loose nervous system, uncontrollable outbursts of rage and a bouquet of bad habits.

But in terms of creativity, van Gogh's life in Arles turned out to be extremely fruitful. There were no caustic critics and ubiquitous newspapers commenting on the artist's insane antics, so in the first two months of his life, 200 paintings appeared in the provinces.

This ability to work was not given in vain: the artist drank more than 20 cups of strong coffee a day, and fell asleep only after an unmeasured amount of alcohol. This lasted from February to October 1888, until the appearance in Arles of Paul Gauguin, whose life was very different.

Strong wealth, a large house in a prestigious area of ​​Paris, a wife, five children - what else do you need to be happy? But Paul yearned for his former freedom and was weighed down by the conventions of life of a wealthy bourgeois. In the family of his guardian, where everyone was very fond of painting, paints and brushes fell into his hands. Gauguin began to write.

Numerous hardships of the unrecognized genius immediately fell on him: literally in a few years, his career collapsed, the house was sold under the hammer, his Danish wife took the children and left for her homeland.

Glory postponed a visit to the artist, and he was forced to agree to the proposal of Theo van Gogh, who promised Paul to pay 150 francs each for the fact that he would go to Arles and live in the same house with his brother Vincent.

On October 22, Gauguin arrived in Arles. A little more than two months remained before the tragic events. The situation became tense in the first minutes after the meeting of the artists. Gauguin did not like the terrible mess that reigned in the rooms, and the fact that there was no food in the house. In addition, he announced that he would live in the brightest and largest bedroom, where Vincent had already settled. It would seem that the owner's cup of patience could be overwhelmed by a sarcastic response about the picture he painted especially for the arrival of the guest - this, by the way, was the famous "Sunflowers".

But van Vincent van Gogh patiently took down all the comments of the future, as he hoped, a friend, because he absolutely did not pretend to be a leader in their relationship.

Paul did not stop there and undertook to lead not only life, but also the creativity of his neighbor. He believed that there was no need to often go to the open air, because you can draw from memory. But van Gogh could only paint from life, and the landscapes created in the room caused him fits of rage.

When the artists nevertheless found themselves in nature, Gauguin was already irritated - his friend painted a full-fledged picture in a day, and he brought home only sketches.

But in their vision, of course, there was something in common, and this is what explains the fact that the artists "crossed paths" several times in the subjects of the paintings. Thus, both of them were inspired to paint the portrait by the local beauty Marie Ginot and did not leave indifferent the landscapes of Provence, the famous red vineyards of Arles and the modest dwellings of local farmers.

Van Gogh called the yellow house a monastery, where Gauguin would be an abbot, and he was just a novice, but the artists did not live according to the monastery charter. They drank a lot, often visited the local bullfight and the city brothel. And, perhaps, these circumstances are directly related to the cut off ear of Vincent van Gogh.

At the bullfight in Arles, the matador did not kill the defeated bull, but only cut off his ear. Once again, the artists visited the arena literally on the eve of the tragedy, and van Gogh had the opportunity to see once again what was happening to the losers.

This story could not do without a woman. She turned out to be the "priestess of love" Rachelle, who preferred to spend the night with the outwardly attractive Gauguin. He allowed himself not only to bring the girl into the house, but also to discuss with her the pictures of his comrade.

It is likely that after that, in the fevered imagination of van Gogh, a delusional thought arose that he was a loser, and Gauguin and Rachelle were winners who had the right to "claim" his ear. Then it becomes clear why Vincent brought such a terrible "present" to Rachelle in the morning.

But there is another version where events developed differently. According to her, tightly drunk friends had a fight, Vincent van Gogh rushed to Fields with a razor, and he, defending himself, accidentally cut off his ear with a rapier. This could well have happened, especially since the victim himself never spoke to anyone about self-harm, but in one of his letters to his brother he noted:

"It's good that Gauguin didn't have a firearm, otherwise everything could have ended much worse"

The film is preceded by the announcement that over a hundred artists have worked on it. Report of French newspapers about the death of the artist Vincent Van Gogh. He shot himself in a field near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, was able to walk to the inn where he rented a room, and died the next day.

A year after that. Cafe in Arles. There is a fight at its entrance, a young man in a yellow jacket beats a Zouave, a soldier of the colonial French troops... A policeman approaches. Zouave says that Armand Roulin fought with him. Again because of this crazy red-haired Dutchman. And he dropped the letter. The policeman takes the letter and enters the cafe. He gives it to Armand, who is sitting there. He says that this is a letter from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo. Arman's father, postmaster Joseph Roulin, received it from the man from whom Vincent rented a room. Joseph believes that the deceased's letter should be delivered to his brother. Vincent wrote to Theo almost every day. But Armand believes that it is not his business to deliver letters.

Joseph Roulin approaches the cafe. He sits down at his son's table and continues to persuade him to deliver the letter to its destination. Armand says that Van Gogh was crazy, he turned the entire population of the city against himself, residents wrote petitions demanding to evict the artist. Joseph says that Vincent was kind person... It all started after his friend Gauguin came to him and settled with Vincent. Their relationship quickly deteriorated, violent quarrels began between them. During one of them, Van Gogh cut off his ear and presented it to a prostitute. They began to persecute him, it was very hard for him. Armand objects: it means that he was a weakling. The father says: the whole city rebelled against him, even the children threw stones at him. So he really was a weakling, since he allowed the boys to do that. Live with him, and you will learn that life can break even a strong person. Vincent left for Auvers, where he underwent treatment with Dr. Gachet. He wrote to Joseph that he had fully recovered, that he was feeling well. And then suddenly the news of suicide. If I write a letter before I die, will you deliver it? Okay, take time off for me on duty. Armand goes to Paris.

He walks into the shop of Tanguy's dad, who sells paints, canvases and other drawing supplies. Armand cannot find Theo at the address his father gave him. Tanguy reports that Theo died shortly after his brother's death, extinguished in just a few months. Yes, he knew Vincent. After all, almost everyone came to him famous artists in Paris. Why did Vincent commit suicide? Theo assumed (and told Tanguy about it) that the reasons lie in Vincent's childhood. He was the eldest, but not the firstborn. He had a brother, Vincent, who died as a child. This was Vincent's ideal. And he himself was a failure. He was kicked out of service, and his career as a missionary did not go well. But Theo supported him. And Vincent Van Goe first took a brush at the age of 28. He came to study in Paris and in two years turned from an amateur into a prominent artist. And who should I give his letter to now? Tanguy advises Armand to hand over the letter to Dr. Gachet, with whom Vincent was undergoing treatment and with whom they were friends. By the way, the doctor willingly took his paintings in payment for the treatment of Van Gogh. Armand goes to Over.

He comes to the house of Dr. Gachet. In the window he sees a blonde girl playing the piano. Dr. Louise Chevalier's housekeeper is talking to him. She says that Gachet is away, she will be tomorrow, she will inform him about Arman's intention to meet with him. Okay, I'll sleep here. Where did Vincent live? At the inn. So I'll go there. Not worth it, this is a real hole. Armand goes to the inn. There he meets Adeline Ravu. Her parents left, she stayed with the mistress. Armand asks her about Vincent. The girl recalls the day the wounded Vincent returned to the inn. What's wrong with you? I tried to kill myself. Vincent was clutching a gunshot wound in his stomach. Dr. Gachet was called. She and Vincent looked at each other like two wolves. The doctor did nothing and left. Although he had the experience of a military doctor and could try to remove the bullet. Then Theo arrived. He spent the night at his brother's bed. Then Vincent died. What happened to him, why did he shoot himself? Vincent was happy. He was a quiet, calm person. Sometimes he was a freak. After all, he is an artist. For example, he could paint in the rain. He drew all the time, every day. I went all the neighborhood: fields, forests, river banks. Talk to the boatman.

The boatman tells Armand that Vincent befriended here with the rich who came ashore with their girls. And Vincent came once with his daughter Gachet. Did they have an affair? Vincent said that he was just drawing it. But they took the boat, as couples often do. Now she carries flowers to his grave.

Armand goes to the doctor's house, talks to Marguerite Gachet. Were you friends? No. He was treated by my father, then their relationship grew into friendship. A boat? No, it was a different girl. Armand decides to follow Vincent's path on his last day. Arman meets an elderly peasant. He says that that day he heard a shot from a nearby barn. Was it Vincent? Do not know.

The doctor is back and is ready to see Arman tomorrow. Armand gets drunk, gets into a fight and spends the night at the police station. In the morning he is informed that another doctor tried to challenge the conclusion about the death of Vincent, which gave Gachet. Armand goes to this doctor, he convinces that it was a murder. Where did the weapon come from? Most likely the innkeeper's revolver. But he sold it long before the incident. And also over Vincent loved to scoff at young rich, with whom he talked on the banks of the river. Maybe they killed Vincent? Moreover, the innkeeper's revolver was bought by one of them, Rene Secretin.

But Gachet convinces Armand that Vincent committed suicide. Gachet himself was an artist, envied Vincent and, by his talk that his brother's help was destructive for Theo, brought him to suicide. Revolver Vincent stole from Rene.

Vincent Willem van Gogh is a Dutch artist who laid the foundations for the Post-Impressionist movement, largely defining the principles of creativity of modern masters.

Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in the village of Groot Zundert in the province of Noord-Brabant, bordering Belgium.

Father Theodore Van Gogh is a Protestant clergyman. Mother Anna Cornelia Carbentus is from the family of a respected bookseller and bookbinder from the city (Den Haag).

Vincent was the 2nd child, but his brother died immediately after birth, so the boy turned out to be the eldest, and after him five more children were born in the family:

• Theodorus (Theo) (Theodorus, Theo);
• Cornelis, Cor;
• Anna Cornelia;
• Elizabeth (Liz);
• Willamina, Vil.

The baby was named after his grandfather, a Protestant minister. The first child was supposed to bear this name, but due to his early death, Vincent got it.

Memories of loved ones paint Vincent's character as very strange, capricious and wayward, disobedient and capable of unexpected antics. Outside of home and family, he was brought up, quiet, polite, modest, kind, distinguished by an amazing intelligent look and a heart full of sympathy. However, he avoided peers and was not included in their games and fun.

At the age of 7, his father and mother enrolled him in school, but a year later he and his sister Anna were transferred to home schooling, and the governess was engaged with the children.

At the age of 11, in 1864, Vincent was assigned to a school in Zevenbergen. Although it was only 20 km from his native place, the child could hardly bear the separation, and these experiences were remembered forever.

In 1866, Vincent was assigned a student at the College Willem II in Tilburg. The teenager made great strides in mastering foreign languages, spoke and read fluently French, English, German. Teachers also noted Vincent's ability to draw. However, in 1868 he suddenly dropped out of school and returned home. They did not send him to educational institutions anymore, he continued to receive his education at home. Memories of the famous artist about the beginning of life were sad, childhood was associated with darkness, coldness and emptiness.

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Business

In 1869, in The Hague, Vincent was recruited by his uncle, who bore the same name, whom the future artist called "Uncle Saint". Uncle was the owner of the department of the company Goupil & Cie, which was engaged in the examination, assessment and sale of art objects. Vincent acquires the profession of a dealer and makes significant progress, so in 1873 he was sent to work in London.

Working with works of art was very interesting to Vincent, he learned to understand the fine arts, became a regular visitor to museums and exhibition halls. His favorite authors were Jean-François Millet and Jules Breton.

The story of Vincent's first love belongs to the same period. But the story was incomprehensible and confusing: he lived in a rented apartment with Ursula Loyer and her daughter Eugene; biographers argue about who was the object of love: one of them or Carolina Haanebeek. But whoever the beloved was, Vincent was refused and lost interest in life, work, art. He begins to read the Bible thoughtfully. During this period, in 1874, he had to transfer to the Paris branch of the company. There he again becomes a frequenter of museums and is fond of creating drawings. Hating the dealer's activities, he ceases to generate income for the company, and he was fired in 1876.

Teachers and religion

In March 1876, Vincent moved to Great Britain, entered a free-of-charge teacher at a school in Ramsgate. At the same time, he is thinking about a career as a clergyman. In July 1876, he transferred to the school in Isleworth, where he additionally assisted the priest. In November 1876, Vincent reads a sermon and is convinced of the mission to carry the truth of religious teaching.

In 1876, Vincent came to his home for the Christmas holidays, and his mother and father begged him not to leave. Vincent got a job in a bookstore in Dordrecht, but he does not like the trade, he devotes all his time to translating biblical texts and painting.

Father and mother, rejoicing in his desire for religious service, send Vincent to Amsterdam, where, with the help of a relative, Johaness Stricker, he is trained in theology for admission to the university, and lives with his uncle, Jan Van Gogh. Gogh), who had the rank of admiral.

After admission, Van Gogh was a student of theology until July 1878, after which, disappointed, he refused further studies and fled Amsterdam.

The next phase of the quest was associated with the Protestant missionary school in Laken near Brussels. The school was led by Pastor Bokma. Vincent has been gaining experience in composing and preaching sermons for three months, but he also leaves this place. The biographers' information is contradictory: either he quit his job himself, or was fired due to carelessness in his clothes and unbalanced behavior.

In December 1878, Vincent continued his missionary service, but now in the southern region of Belgium, in the village of Paturi. Mining families lived in the village, Van Gogh disinterestedly worked with children, visited houses and talked about the Bible, looked after the sick. To feed himself, he drew maps of the Holy Land and sold them. Van Gogh showed himself as an ascetic, sincere and tireless, as a result he was assigned a small salary from the Evangelical Society. He planned to enter the Gospel school, but education was paid, and this, according to Van Gogh, is incompatible with true faith, which cannot be associated with money. At the same time, he submits a request to the management of the mines to improve the working conditions of the miners. He was refused, deprived of the right to preach, which shocked him and led to another disappointment.

The first steps

Van Gogh finds comfort at the easel, in 1880 he decides to try himself at the Brussels Royal Academy of Arts. He is supported by his brother Theo, but a year later, training is abandoned again, and the eldest son returns under the parental roof. He is absorbed in self-education, works tirelessly.

He feels love for his widowed cousin Kee Vos-Stricker, who raised her son and came to visit the family. Van Gogh is rejected, but persists, and he is kicked out of his father's house. These events shook young man, he flees to The Hague, immerses himself in creativity, takes lessons from Anton Mauve, comprehends the laws of fine art, makes copies of lithographic works.

Van Gogh spends a lot of time in neighborhoods inhabited by the poor. The works of this period are sketches of courtyards, roofs, alleys:

• "Backyards" (De achtertuin) (1882);
• “Roofs. View from the workshop of Van Gogh "(Dak. Het uitzicht vanuit de Studio van van Gogh) (1882).

An interesting technique combines watercolors, sepia, ink, chalk, etc.

In The Hague, he chooses to wife a woman of easy virtue named Christine(Van Christina), which he picked up right on the panel. Khristin moved to Van Gogh with her children, became a model for the artist, but her character was terrible, and they had to leave. This episode leads to a final break with parents and loved ones.

After breaking up with Christine, Vincent leaves for Drenth, in the countryside. During this period, the artist's landscape works, as well as paintings, which depict the life of the peasantry, appear.

Early work

The period of creativity, representing the first works done in Drenthe, is notable for realism, but they express key characteristics individual manner of the artist. Many critics believe that these features are due to the lack of elementary art education: Van Gogh did not know the laws of depicting a person, therefore, the characters of paintings and sketches seem to be angular, illiterate, as if they came out of the bosom of nature, like rocks, on which the firmament presses:

• "Red Vineyards" (Rode wijngaard) (1888);
• Peasant Woman (Boerin) (1885);
• "Eaters of potatoes" (De Aardappeleters) (1885);
• "The old church tower in Nuenen" (De Oude Begraafplaats Toren in Nuenen) (1885) and others.

These works are distinguished by a dark palette of shades that convey the painful atmosphere of the surrounding life, the painful situation of ordinary people, sympathy, pain and drama of the author.

In 1885, he was forced to leave Drenthe, as he displeased the priest, who considered drawing to be debauchery and forbade local residents pose for pictures.

Paris period

Van Gogh goes to Antwerpen, takes lessons at the Academy of Arts and additionally in a private educational institution, where he works a lot on the image of nudity.

In 1886, Vincent moved to Paris to Theo, who worked in a dealership specializing in the sale of art objects.

In Paris in 1887/88, Van Gogh takes lessons at a private school, comprehends the basics of Japanese art, the basics of the impressionistic manner of writing, the work of Paul Gauguin (Pol Gogen). This stage in creative biography Vag Gog is called light, in the works the leitmotif is light blue, bright yellow, fiery shades, the manner of writing is light, betraying movement, the "flow" of life:

• Agostina Segatori in het Café Tamboerijn;
• "Bridge over the Seine" (Brug over de Seine);
• Papa Tanguy and others.

Van Gogh admired the Impressionists, got acquainted with celebrities thanks to his brother Theo:

• Edgar Degas
• Camille Pissarro
• Anri Tuluz-Lautrec;
• Paul Gauguin;
• Emile Bernard and others.

Van Gogh found himself among good friends and like-minded people, got involved in the preparation of expositions, which were organized in restaurants, bars, theater halls. The audience did not appreciate Van Gogh, they recognized them as terrible, but he plunges into learning and self-improvement, comprehends the theoretical basis of the color technique.

In Paris, Van Gogh created about 230 works: still lifes, portrait and landscape painting, cycles of paintings (for example, the series "Shoes" in 1887) (Schoenen).

It is interesting that the person on the canvas acquires a secondary role, and the main thing is the light world of nature, its airiness, richness of colors, and their subtlest transitions. Van Gogh discovers the newest trend - post-impressionism.

Flourishing and finding your own style

In 1888, Van Gogh, worried about the misunderstanding of the audience, left for the southern French city of Arles. Arles became the city in which Vincent understood the purpose of his work: not strive to reflect the real visible world, but with the help of color and simple techniques to express your inner "I".

He decides to break with the Impressionists, but the peculiarities of their style have been manifested for many years in his works, in the ways of depicting light and air, in the manner of placing color accents. Typical for Impressionist works are a series of paintings on which the same landscape, but at different times of the day and under different lighting conditions.

The attractiveness of the style of Van Gogh's works of the heyday is in the contradiction between the desire for a harmonious outlook and the realization of one's own helplessness in front of a disharmonious world. The works of 1888, full of light and festive nature, coexist with gloomy phantasmagoric images:

• "Yellow House" (Gele huis);
• "Armchair of Gauguin" (De stoel van Gauguin);
• "Cafe terrace at night" (Cafe terras bij nacht).

The dynamism, movement of color, the energy of the master's brush is a reflection of the artist's soul, his tragic searches, impulses to understand the world alive and inanimate:

• "Red Vineyards in Arles";
• The Sower (Zaaier);
• "Night cafe" (Nachtkoffie).

The artist plans to establish a society uniting novice geniuses who will reflect the future of mankind. To open society, Vincent is helped by Theo's funds. Van Gogh assigned the leading role to Paul Gauguin. When Gauguin arrived, they quarreled to the point that Van Gogh nearly cut his throat on December 23, 1888. Gauguin managed to escape, and Van Gogh, repenting, cut off part of his own earlobe.

Biographers assess this episode differently, many believe that this act was a sign of insanity, provoked by excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages. Van Gogh was sent to a mental hospital, where he is kept under strict conditions in a ward for the violent. Gauguin leaves, Theo takes care of Vincent. After a course of treatment, Vincent dreams of returning to Arles. But the residents of the city protested, and the artist was offered to settle near the Saint-Paul hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, near Arles.

Since May 1889, Van Gogh has been living in Saint-Remy, in a year he writes more than 150 large things and about 100 drawings and watercolors, demonstrating his mastery of halftones and the reception of contrast. Among them, the landscape genre prevails, still lifes that convey the mood, contradictions in the author's soul:

• Nightlights;
• Landscape with Olive Trees (Landschap met olijfbomen) and others.

In 1889, the fruits of Van Gogh's work were exhibited in Brussels, met with rave reviews from colleagues and critics. But Van Gogh does not feel joy from the finally come recognition, he moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, where his brother lives with his family. There he constantly creates, but the depressed mood and nervous excitement of the author are transmitted to the canvases of 1890, they are distinguished by broken lines, distorted silhouettes of objects and faces:

• “Village road with cypress trees” (Landelijke weg met cipressen);
• "Landscape at Auvers after the rain" (Landschap in Auvers na de regen);
• "Wheat field with crows" (Korenveld met kraaien) and others.

On July 27, 1890, Van Gogh was fatally wounded from a pistol. It is not known whether the shot was planned or accidental, but the artist died a day later. In the same town he was buried, and after 6 months his brother Theo died of nervous exhaustion, whose grave is next to Vincent.

Over 10 years of creativity, more than 2,100 works have appeared, of which about 860 are made in oils. Van Gogh became the founder of Expressionism, Post-Impressionism, his principles formed the basis of Fauvism and Modernism.

A series of triumphal exhibition events took place posthumously in Paris, Brussels, The Hague, Antwerp. At the beginning of the 20th century, another wave of shows of the famous Dutchman's works took place in Paris, Cologne (Keulen), New York (New York), Berlin (Berlijn).

Paintings

It is not known exactly how many paintings Van Gogh wrote, but art critics and researchers of his work tend to figure about 800. In the last 70 days of his life alone, he painted 70 paintings - one a day! Let's recall the most famous paintings with names and descriptions:

The Potato Eaters appeared in Nuenen in 1885. The author described the task in a letter to Theo: he sought to show people of hard work who received little remuneration for their work. The hands that cultivate the field receive its gifts.

Red vineyards in Arles

The famous painting dates back to 1888. The plot of the picture is not fictional, Vincent tells about it in one of the messages to Theo. On the canvas, the artist conveys the saturated colors that amazed him: deep red grape leaves, a piercing green sky, a bright purple dog-washed road with golden highlights from the rays of the setting sun. The colors seem to flow into one another, convey the author's anxious mood, his tension, the depth of philosophical thoughts about the world. Such a plot will be repeated in the work of Van Gogh, symbolizing the eternally renewed life in work.

Night cafe

The Night Cafe appeared in Arles and presented the author's thoughts about a man who destroys his own life on his own. The idea of ​​self-destruction and a steady movement towards madness is expressed by the contrast of blood-burgundy and green colors. To try to penetrate the secrets of twilight life, the author worked on the painting at night. The expressionistic manner of writing conveys the fullness of passions, anxiety, and the painfulness of life.

In the legacy of Van Gogh, there are two series of works depicting sunflowers. In the first cycle - flowers laid out on the table, they were painted in the Parisian period in 1887 and were soon acquired by Gauguin. The second series appeared in 1888/89 in Arles, on each canvas - sunflower flowers in a vase.

This flower symbolizes love and fidelity, friendship and warmth of human relationships, good deeds and gratitude. The artist expresses the depths of his understanding of the world in sunflowers, associating himself with this sunny flower.

Starry Night, created in 1889 in Saint-Remy, depicts the stars and the moon in dynamics framed by the boundless sky, eternally existing and rushing into the infinity of the Universe. The cypresses in the foreground strive to reach the stars, and the village in the valley is static, motionless and devoid of aspirations for the new and infinite. Expression of color approaches and the use of different types of strokes conveys the multidimensionality of space, its variability and depth.

This famous self-portrait was taken in Arles in January 1889. An interesting feature is the dialogue of red-orange and blue-violet colors, against the background of which there is a plunge into the abyss of a distorted human consciousness. Attention rivets the face and eyes, as if looking deep into the personality. Self-portraits are the artist's conversation with himself and with the universe.

"Blossoming almond branches" (Amandelbloesem) are created in Saint-Remy in 1890. The spring flowering of almond trees is a symbol of renewal, emerging and growing life. The unusualness of the canvas is that the branches soar without a foundation, they are self-sufficient and beautiful.

This portrait was painted in 1890. Bright colors convey the significance of every moment, brushwork creates a dynamic image of man and nature, which are inextricably linked. The image of the hero of the picture is painful and nervous: we peer into the image of a sad old man, immersed in his thoughts, as if absorbed the painful experience of years.

"Wheat Field with Crows" was created in July 1890 and expresses the feeling of approaching death, the hopeless tragedy of life. The picture is filled with symbolism: the sky before a thunderstorm, approaching black birds, roads leading into the unknown, but inaccessible.

Museum

(Van Gogh Museum) opened in Amsterdam in 1973 and presents not only the most fundamental collection of his creations, but also the work of the Impressionists. This is the first most popular exhibition center in the Netherlands.

Quotes

1. Among the clergy, as well as among the masters of the brush, despotic academism reigns, dull and full of prejudices;
2. Thinking about future hardships and hardships, I could not create;
3. Painting is my joy and comfort, giving an opportunity to escape from the troubles of life;
4. I want to express in my paintings everything that is hidden in the heart of an insignificant person.

If you haven’t had time to watch “Van Gogh. Love, Vincent, please hurry up. First, you will be present at a historic moment, as this is the world's first animated feature film entirely painted with oil paints on canvas. (It is worth mentioning that the Russian author Alexander Petrov, who was awarded an Oscar for the film The Old Man and the Sea, became an eminent director of animated films in the technique of "revived painting".) "Van Gogh" is the most unusual film of recent times. It would be fair to say that this is a completely new art, which has no name yet. Maybe this is a "picturesque cinema" where there is everything that should be in a feature film: plot, heroes, drama. Or maybe "cinematic painting". In any case, you will receive incredible joy from the beauty that splashes from the screen with the familiar Vangogov juicy color. In addition, you will learn even more about the famous artist, who was prepared by rock itself the thorny path of an unrecognized lonely wanderer in the present and a great genius in the future.

The script is based on 800 letters from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo and more than 100 paintings and sketches by the artist. In fact, through his paintings (and in this film, each frame is a revived painting of the master), we learn a lot about where Vincent lived, whom he met, who was the hero of his canvases, what he felt, what he was happy about, what he suffered from and how he died. The authors (and there are more than 100 of them), who transferred the painting to 65,000 frames, in fact, presented the artist's true biography in a pictorial-animation-play version. Dr. Gachet is not only the hero of the famous Wangogo portrait, who actually treated Vincent in the hospital for the mentally ill. He is also a failed artist himself, who, feeling jealous of his patient's talent, copied his work. Margarita Gachet is not only "The Girl at the Piano", but also the doctor's daughter, with whom, not without reciprocity, Vincent was in love and who never married after his death. Here come to life "Zouave" and "Musme", "Ladies of Arles" and "Postman Roulin", "Red Vineyards in Arles" (the only painting by Van Gogh, sold during his lifetime for a meager price) and "Papa Tanguy", views of Arles and Auvers - the last resting places of the artist, many and many others. For their narration, the authors chose the plot of a detective story. The main character was Armand Roulin, the son of that same "portrait" postman and the hero of the portrait of the same name by Van Gogh. He must deliver Vincent's last letter to Theo. Arman is reluctant to take up the assignment, but the more conflicting reviews he hears about the sender of the message, the more meaningful the mission becomes for him. On the way, a lot is revealed: and visitors to the "Night Cafe in Arles"; and father Tanguy, from whom Van Gogh bought brushes and paints; and a man scattering grain in a field in the rays of a hot sun, who for Van Gogh himself was more an image of death than a sower; and meeting with Paul Gauguin; and the tragic situation with the cut off ear; and the fact that Theo survived his brother by only six months, which means that the letter cannot be delivered to the addressee.

In each frame, one can feel the great sincere love and gratitude of the authors to who the film is about. The personality and biography of Van Gogh gave and gives many reasons for gossip and gossip. Many of them have been embodied in different films. This work attracts a high degree of respect and delicacy to every moment of the life of a great man. The circumstances of death are shown not with a desire to surprise and amuse, but from the point of view of a detailed investigation, where different versions of what could have happened on the very field that the artist himself had with the crows or under a stormy sky arise. Even the fact that the texture of each frame is conveyed in the impasto technique (thick overlay of paint), beloved by Van Gogh, speaks not only of diligence and responsibility, but also of true reverence for a real master, whose tragic fate and loyalty to his art never cease to amaze and delight.

"Van Gogh. With love, Vincent "- a joint Polish-British film, which began with an appeal to people on a crowdfunding platform (an Internet resource for raising money for various projects), is one of the Oscar nominees. But that's not the point. And the fact that this is one of the powerful statements about someone who so piercingly managed to express all the bitterness of human fate and embody what he knew well: “I believe that The best way to know God is love. It is wonderful to love as much as possible, and this is true strength, and the one who loves much achieves greatness, and what is done with love is done to glory. " The letter, which Armand Roulin tried to deliver, nevertheless reached the addressee - this is you and me, for whom this film is not only an aesthetic, but also a philosophical and ethical message.