172 years ago today, March 30, 1853 (February 21, 1853 in the lunar calendar) was the birthday of Van Gogh, the giant of the Impressionists. Photo of Van Gogh at the age of 19 Vincent Wilhelm Van Gogh was born into a rural priest family in the Netherlands. He was one of the three great masters of post-Impressionism. When Van Gogh was young, he worked as a clerk in a painting shop. This was his earliest "artistic education". Later, when he came to Paris, he met with Impressionists and was inspired and influenced by color. For this reason, people called him "post-impressionism". But after learning the expressiveness of lines in Eastern art more thoroughly than the Impressionists, he admired the Japanese "Ukiyo-e" decorated by Kazuzai. Among Western painters, Rembrandt, Dumiere and Millet had a greater spiritual influence on him. Van Gogh was kind by nature. In his early years, in order to "comfort all unfortunate people in the world," he went to a Kuangqu (Borinage) at his own expense to become a priest. He ate the worst food like miners and slept on the floor together. When the mine exploded, he risked his life to rescue a seriously injured miner. However, at one of the funerals he presided over, he suddenly became sober by the harsh condemnation of an old man. He began to realize that there was no God in the world. The miners in Borinage no longer needed God, and certainly they did not need him. In this way, he returned to painting, received short guidance from his cousin and some Dutch painters at the time, and established friendships with new painters in Paris, including the Impressionists. All of Van Gogh's outstanding and original works were completed in the last six years of his life. The mood of his initial works was often low, but later, a large number of his works turned low and became loud and clear, as if he wanted to use happy singing to comfort the suffering of the world and express his strong ideals and hopes. A British commentator said: "He devoted all his energy to pursuing the simplest and most ordinary thing in the world, and that was the sun." His paintings are not only full of bright colors under the sun, but also depict the eye-catching sun itself more than once and sunflower many times. In memory of his deceased cousin Murph, he painted a painting of "Blooming Peach Blossom" in the sun and wrote a poem saying: "As long as the living are still alive, the dead are always alive." From a historical perspective, Van Gogh was indeed a very advanced painter. His works contain a profound sense of tragedy, his strong personality and unique pursuit of form, which are far ahead of the times and are indeed difficult to be accepted by the people at that time. He used the environment to grasp the object, and he changed reality again to achieve tangible reality, which promoted the birth of expressionism. When people were most misunderstood about him, it was when he was most confident in his creation. Therefore, eternal works of art were left behind. He directly influenced Fauvism in France, Expressionism in Germany, and even the lyrical abstract portraits that emerged in the early 20th century. "Sunflower" was written in the sunny south of France. The painter is like a blazing flame, full of fiery passion, making the sporty and rotating brushstrokes so thick and powerful, and the contrast of colors is also simple and strong. However, this kind of thick and simple is full of wisdom and aura. When viewing this painting, visitors were all moved by the exciting picture effect, their hearts trembled, and their passion gushed out. They were all eager to try and integrate into Van Gogh's rich subjective feelings. In short, Van Gogh's sunflowers are not just plants, but life forms with primitive impulse and enthusiasm. Van Gogh's representative works include "Potato Eaters"(1885),"Night Coffee"(1888),"Sunflower"(1888),"Starry Night"(1889),"Self-Portrait"(1889),"Doctor Gache"(1890),"Iris Flower"(1890), etc. The only woman who loved Van Gogh was Margot Bayman, Van Gogh in a tall hat. This photo was discovered 100 years after Van Gogh's death and is the only known photo taken of him as an adult. Photo of Van Gogh on the Seine River in 1886. Behind the camera is Van Gogh. Van Gogh's birthday (the bed Van Gogh lived in a mental hospital)