"Red vineyards in Arles" Van Gogh - description, history of creation and the fate of the painting

Statistics say that when answering the question about the most famous artist, the majority pronounces 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 the true genius of painting, whose God-ridden hand was led by God.

The general opinion is a doubtful thing, but looking at the picture "Red vineyards in Arles", one can agree with him.

One of the few sold during life

The life of outstanding people is full of mysteries and mysteries. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) lived a life in the classic for geniuses of 37 years, he was actively engaged in painting about 10, but managed to pass from a beginning self-taught to a master who turned the world of painting. This causes surprise and questions for everyone who is interested in art, and does not give rest to lovers of sensations and conspiracy theories. There is an opinion that the Dutch master created his paintings under the influence of a mental illness, which brought him to the grave. Others present him as a calculating businessman, who, along with his brother Theo, was a successful art dealer, was able to conquer the market with an unprecedented style of painting and earn a fortune.

Yes, paintings by Van Gogh are now one of the most expensive lots at auctions, one of the most profitable investments of capital. And during the life of the work "Red Vineyards in Arles" was bought at the exhibition "Group of Twenty", which was held in Brussels in 1890. She bought for 400 francs (about 2000 today's dollars) artist Anna Bosch. According to some reports, she then sold it, because she could not write in her style - pointillism and neo-impressionism, while Van Gogh's painting glowed on the wall.

This masterpiece can be seen now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin on the Volkhonka. This happened thanks to the famous collector Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin, who highly valued the art of contemporary artists.

History of writing

In 1888, Van Gogh moved from Paris to Provence, to the south of France. In the town of Arles, he takes a small house under the studio. He was inspired by the idea of organizing a commune of artists, with 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 incomprehensible excesses, as a result of which Van Gogh lost some of his ear. Around this history, many muddy theories and conjectures were built, it was the first vivid manifestation of the mental illness that vanquished Van Gogh eventually.

But the main thing was that the period spent by the master among the bright southern colors, among the landscapes of Provence, conquered the artist, was one of the most fruitful for Van Gogh. Portraits, landscapes, the famous "Sunflowers", "Night Cafe", "Starry Night over the Rhone" - all written in Arles and its environs. "Red vineyards in Arles" were the result of one walk, described by the artist in a letter to his brother Theo. The setting sun has blossomed the coastal vineyard, creating for a while a world of unprecedented color combinations, which is destined to see and capture only the real painter.

Description

On the coastal stretch of land, at the bend of a small river goes the collection of grapes. The bright sun leans toward the horizon, flooding the glowing gold sky, reflecting the blinding path in the water, painting the vineyard foliage in the foreground with different shades of purple. Among the fields are figures of working women and wagons. They are written in complex shades of blue and have a characteristic dark outline, now crisp, then flickering in the evening air. The trees that protect the field are also written to the horizon. The painting "Red Vineyards in Arles" is an amazing harmony of warm, hot colors with a cold flicker of shades of blue and blue, a very complex green.

Where there were no fires from the fiery vine in the foreground, areas of bare ground appeared. It resembles either a cooling metal or dying firewood, when flaming fire tongues are replaced by quivering ash scales on the hummocky surfaces of charcoal and ash.

Here and there the last sparks of sunlight are visible, but not blinding, but extinguished - pink, purple, peach. They smooth out those color combinations that would be an eerie dissonance if they were pulled out of the common canvas paintings and showed by separate spots on a neutral background. But this smoothing does not extinguish the energy of individual strokes and strokes, diverse in shape and size. "Red vineyards in Arles" - a boiling pot of color and energy, a genius master welded into a single harmony.

New stage

Those who visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where the largest collection of master paintings are, say that it is difficult physically 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. Earthy, low-key flavor of the time "Potato eaters" was replaced by ringing, clean colors. Such are the "Red Vineyards in Arles". Vincent van Gogh uses special yellow vibrations found in the south of France, in "Sunflowers" and "Yellow House", which embraces the hot flame of orange and red.

But it is important to know and another - the creativity of Van Gogh is based on high intelligence. The story of an insane self-taught person who makes senseless uncontrolled movements of a brush, causing arbitrary strokes and stains, is not about him. Every picture of a Dutchman is a wise parable about the world and man, about the meaning and beauty of life. Not for nothing is the literary work of Van Gogh in the form of letters to Brother Theodore, containing arguments about creative searches and finds, is of great value. In them he is a well-read, educated person, who has knowledge and theoretical basis.

Everyone finds his own

The truly great works of art are multi-layered, each viewer finds in them his own, conditioned by the preparation of the mind and soul. Van Gogh's painting "Red Vineyards in Arles" is a story full of energy and emotion about the unity of man and nature, about the meaning and reasonableness of being, about the never-ending flow of time.