Again a self-portrait, again a gray hat, a spray of post-impressionistic mood and a red hair stench. This is Vincent Willem and his thirty-three-year-old image on canvas. His post-impressionist Van Gogh paid a lot of time. In the author’s collection there are different self-portraits in the graphics, color transfer and monochrome.
This work, like everything, reflects the true sadness and loneliness of Vincent. The artist’s red eyes are directed away from the viewer. Excessive thinness and pallor are not masked by the master, but cultivated in small strokes into something plastic. This is his true face, and narcissism is nothing to do with.
The technique in which Van Gogh worked recalls the easy brushing of the primer to leave clear strokes. The abrupt letter in something reminds pointillism and creates effect of application with feathers or shreds of a wool. Hence the glow and fragmentation of the structure of the face, background, clothing.
Vincent wrote a good portrait. Do not know that she belongs to the genius of post-impressionism, you could refer her to the collection of the kindergarten. It affects the unfinished school of painting, an attempt at self-education, not knowledge of the basics of light and shade transmission and only a reliance on Van Gogh’s own experience and observation. If you return to the image and narration of your own image, you can see the cleanliness of the man, his taste, the quality of life.
However, a self-portrait is just a bright picture, an invention of one’s own self. Despite the juicy palette and the contrast of the sunny beard and the blue background, the gray face and the ocher suit, the work is bitter. The eyebrows raised in a sad little house and the thin lips scream for disappointment, sadness and some tension. As if the author caught himself off guard at the interview or passing the exam. Perhaps, the work has a deeper meaning than copying one’s face. And the tension is caused by a serious examination of life and own mistakes.
Many viewers, knowing about the comical self-torture of Van Gogh, about a cut earlobe, will ask, this is “before” or “after”. Yes, the submitted self-portrait was written even before the tragedy with his consciousness, but on the eve of insanity. It was the artist’s Parisian period, the most fruitful and rich in creative understanding. He seemed to find himself and invited a few fans to enjoy their own happiness through oil self-portraits. This work became part of those 28 images of oneself that were written by Vincent for the year in Paris. Total self-portraits were 35.
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