Wong Sirs Tripnetherlands Van Gogh Museum

Wong Sir's Trip:Netherlands Van Gogh Museum The Van Gogh Museum is located in the Museum Square in the south of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. When completed in 1973, the museum was opened by Queen Juliana of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1999, a new wing designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa was added, with an irregular oval shape. In 2015, a glass curtain was added to two buildings, which is the entrance to the museum. The Van Gogh Museum receives 1.5 million visitors each year. In the eyes of European tourists, the Van Gogh Museum ranks first among the 18 most famous art museums in the world. The Van Gogh Museum is small,with more than 500 visitors per square meter, the Louvre is 140, and the Tate Modern in London is 171. In 2017, the number of visitors reached a record 2.26 million,becoming the most visited museum in the Netherlands, the huge flow of people caused trouble for the Van Gogh Museum. The museum has taken a series of measures to reduce the number of tourists, mainly by increasing fares. Between 2017 and 2018, ticket prices increased by € 1 to € 18, the number of tourists decreased to 2.16 million. The number will increase to 19 Euros in 2019, the number of tourists will continue to decline. Van Gogh was determined to become an artist when he was 27 years old. In just 10 years of creative career, he left 860 paintings, more than 1,200 drawings, sketches in letters, watercolors and other works on paper and 820 letters. Due to the lack of money to invite models, Van Gogh painted a lot of self-portraits, the most famous of which is "Self-Portrait after Cutting Ear". Van Gogh's work was kept by Van Gogh's younger brother Dio and later sold to the Dutch government for millions of dollars. The condition is the establishment of the "Van Gogh Foundation", which is controlled by the Van Gogh family, and a "Van Gogh Museum" in Amsterdam. Yellow is Van Gogh's representative color. Van Gogh's self-portrait is hung in the center of the entire yellow wall of the museum. Upon entering, rent an audio guide for five euros per person. The guide has multiple languages ​​including Chinese, but the English explanation is more detailed, and the introduction information of multiple languages ​​is only simplified version in Chinese. To protect paintings, photography is not allowed in the museum's exhibition area. The museum has four floors, displaying works from low to high according to Van Gogh's life, visitors walk through Van Gogh's life vertically from bottom to top. On March 30, 1853, Vincent Van Gogh was born in Zindert, a small town in the Brabant region of the Netherlands. At the age of 11, he transferred to a boarding school in Zevenbergen. At the age of 13, he attended Tilburg Middle School and dropped out halfway through the second school year. At the age of 16, he joined the Gubir International Art Company as an apprentice. Van Gogh was transferred to Paris in 1875 and fired in 1876. After leaving Gubir, Van Gogh returned to the UK to work as a voluntary teaching assistant at a boarding school in Ramsgate. At the end of 1876, Van Gogh returned to Brabant, the Netherlands, but did not return to Britain. Dutch period (1880-1885) In October 1880, Van Gogh moved to Brussels and began to study painting skills. Since there was no longer a steady income, his younger brother Dio helped him from time to time. In the spring of 1881, Van Gogh moved to Eton, Brabant, to live with his parents. On Christmas day in 1881, Van Gogh left home after a quarrel with his father went to The Hague to find a distant cousin, the then-known painter Anton Muff learned painting. In early 1882, Van Gogh met Sean and became his model and lover. Sean had fallen into dust, was pregnant in Rokko, and had a five-year-old daughter. The two rented a room, and the family was able to live in. The two eventually broke up. In December 1883, Van Gogh moved back to Nuenen to live with his parents again. Van Gogh's father died at the end of March 1885. "Potato Eater", completed between April and May 1885, was Van Gogh's first large-scale figure painting, and he was very satisfied. At the end of the year, Van Gogh decided to go to the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, said goodbye to his native Netherlands, and never returned. Paris period (1886 – 1888) At that time, the Paris art market was popular with Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. He had never been to Japan's Van Gogh and loved Ukiyo-e. His style was influenced by Ukiyo-e. One of them was "The Sower". At that time, Ukiyo-e woodcut prints cost only a few cents. Van Gogh bought 660 pieces held an exhibition in an attempt to resell the profits, but only sold more than a hundred copies, about 500 of which have been circulating to this day. Arles (1888 – 1889) On February 20, 1888, Van Gogh took a day and a night train to Arles, a small town on the Long River, and began his creative heyday. He lived in Arles, southern France, and established the "Southern Studio." Van Gogh invited Gauguin, his long-cherished favorite, to live in a yellow house. The yellow house became Van Gogh's painting "The Yellow House." Van Gogh used his paintings to decorate the yellow house. Five versions of "Sunflower" were born inside the house. The first "Sunflower" appeared in the house in August 1888. "Sunflower" did not bring Van Gogh's fame and fortune, his letter to his younger brother Dio on October 25, 1888 was pessimistic. "If my paintings don't sell, I can't do anything about it, but that day will come. People will realize that these paintings are more valuable than pigments and our spent livelihoods." Gauguin and Van Gogh had many creative sparks. In tribute to Van Gogh, he drew a painting "Vinson Painting a Sunflower. Van Gogh". Unexpectedly, this painting became the fuse of Van Gogh and Gauguin, which eventually caused a bloody case because of different painting concepts. On December 23, 1888, Gauguin had a fierce quarrel with Van Gogh, Gauguin threatened to leave, which led to the recurrence of Van Gogh's disorder. He threatened Gauguin with a razor, and eventually cut off his left ear, wrapped it in a newspaper and gave it to the prostitute in the red light district. After Van Gogh came to the hospital to wrap the wound, he painted "Self Portrait After Cutting Ear." The next morning, Van Gogh was admitted to Arles' hospital. After hearing the news, Dior hurriedly boarded the southbound train. Dior went to the hospital to visit Van Gogh accompanied by Gauguin. Van Gogh had no memory of the ear-cutting incident. On December 30, 1888 (Sunday), the local newspaper "Republican Forum" in Arles reported on Van Gogh's "Ear-cut Incident" under the title "Disillusionment of Dreams". Saint Remy Period (1889-1890) In early January 1889, Van Gogh was discharged from the hospital and picked up his paintbrush again. However, his mental illness fluctuated in the following months. On May 8th, Van Gogh feared a relapse and voluntarily admitted to St. Remy's psychiatric hospital. On January 31, 1890, Van Gogh's brother Dio gave birth to a son, Van Gogh drew "Apricot Blossoms" for his brother and newborn baby. Under the blue sky background, the big branches are covered with snow-white apricot flowers, the blooming flowers on the apricot branches symbolize new life. This painting is deeply influenced by Japanese art. Van Gogh was ill in a sanitarium and painted in the ward when he was in good shape. Once he ate some oil paint under extreme disorder and was banned from working for some time. Van Gogh was very productive during Saint-Remy, completing about 150 paintings and more than 100 drawings in 108 days. Van Gogh's style of painting began to trend towards expressionism,his works were full of melancholy spirit and tragic hallucinations. "Starry Night" is a representative work of this period, the scenery described is exactly St. Remy, where the mental hospital is located. In May 1890, "Iris" was conceived in a mental hospital. The ink used in this painting was particularly heavy and it took one month to fully dry. Van Gogh left St. Remy's psychiatric hospital in May. During this time, he abandoned sleep and forgot to eat, basically creating a work every day, and his health seemed to improve. In July, Van Gogh knew that his brother was frustrated after he quit his business, he was worried that he would lose financial support and be depressed. On July 10, a letter written by Van Gogh to Dior foretold the suicide ending:"After figuring out what I want, I drew three more works on the cloth. All are wheat fields under the rolling sky, I try to express Feelings of sorrow and extreme loneliness. You will soon see that I hope I can take them to Paris as soon as possible. I am almost certain that these paintings can tell you the feelings that I cannot express in words, the health that the village has. "The inspiring charm." The painting that Van Gogh referred to is "Crows in the Wheat Field". On July 27, Van Gogh walked into a wheat field and shot his chest with a revolver. Then, he returned to his lodging hostel. Dior rushed from Paris to Orville to accompany his brother. Two days later, Van Gogh died after being injured. On July 30, Van Gogh was buried in Orville. He left a huge artistic heritage with over 850 paintings and about 300 works on paper. In 2014, commemorating the 125th anniversary of Van Gogh's death. Dutch artist Rothgard designed Van Gogh's Starry Night cycling track based on Van Gogh's "Starry Night". The bicycle track is about one kilometer in length, is the world's first luminous bicycle track, passing by Van Gogh's birthplace, Zindert. The bike path is paved with materials that absorb solar energy during the day and glow at night. The designer used 50,000 luminous materials to lay out a swirling starry sky like in the "Starry Night" paintings, reproducing the beautiful scenery of famous paintings. Van Gogh Museum Address: 6 Museum Square, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Adult: Ticket + multimedia guide, fare: 24 Euro Adult: Ticket only, fare: 19 Euro Youth and children (0-17 years): Free Van Gogh Museum does not charge extra exhibition fees Use e-tickets to see works and exhibitions in the permanent collection Note: Tickets are available in limited quantities and should be booked online in advance

"The Chinese-Canadian artist Matthew Wong (1984-2019) employed colour expressively, using thick and dynamically applied paint to instil his personality in his work. Self-taught, he explored Western and Chinese art history himself, finding an important example in the work of Vincent van Gogh. The two artists gave expression to their inner worlds with a similar immediacy. There are striking parallels, moreover, between the lives of Wong and Van Gogh: both spent a great deal of time searching for their vocation in life before eventually finding it in painting. The connections between the two artists are examined in detail in this publication through a survey of Matthew Wong's impressive body of work"--From publisher's website, viewed March 12, 2024.

A lavishly illustrated museum guide containing the most important highlights of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Read this before you visit the museum and you will be able to fully appreciate the works by Van Gogh and his contemporaries in the collection.

"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.

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In the winter of 1886-87, during his stay in Paris, Vincent van Gogh bought 660 Japanese prints at the art gallery of Siegfried Bing. His aim was to start dealing in them, but the exhibition he organized in the café-restaurant Le Tambourin was a total failure. However, he was now able to study his collection at ease and in close-up, and he gradually became captivated by their colourful, cheerful and unusual imagery. When he left for Arles, he took some prints with him, but the core remained in Paris with his brother Theo. Although some prints were later given away, the collection did not disperse. This book reveals new analyses of the collection, now held in the Van Gogh Museum, given as a long-term loan from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation. The authors delve into its history, and the role the prints played in Van Gogh's creative output. The book is illustrated with over 100 striking highlights from the collection.

A study of the personal and professional history of van Gogh and Gauguin takes a close-up look at their brief collaboration in Arles in 1888 and discusses the role of each artist in promoting the other's search for a personal style that incorporated the latest artistic developments but remained true to each artist's vision. BOMC.