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Today’s Painting
今日画作
In a letter to his brother Theo from 1879, Van Gogh wrote: “It is sometimes so bitterly cold in the winter that one says, `The cold is too awful for me to care whether summer is coming or not; the harm outdoes the good.’ But with or without our approval, the severe weather does come to an end eventually and one fine morning the wind changes and there is the thaw. When I compare the state of the weather to our state of mind and our circumstances, subject to change and fluctuation like the weather, then I still have some hope that things may get better.”
梵高在1879年给他的兄弟西奥的一封信中写道：“冬天有时太冷太苦了，以至于人们说：‘`寒冷太可怕了，冷得我没法儿关心夏天是否还会到来；弊大于利。’但是无论我们是否批准，恶劣的天气最终都将结束，在一个晴朗的早晨，风向改变了，冰雪融化了。当我将天气状况与我们的心境和状况进行比较时，它们跟天气一样会有改变，会有起伏。这样的话，我还抱有希望，一起会变得更好。”
In this view across the vicarage garden, a lone figure clears a path, though the leafless bushes—or perhaps markers—at left give us pause: is this man shoveling snow, or digging a grave?
我们看到在牧师的整个花园里，一个孤独的人物清除了一条小路，尽管左边的无叶灌木丛（或可能是标记）使我们停下来思考：这个人是铲雪，还是挖坟墓？
Artist Introduction
画家简介
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.
文森特·威廉·梵高是一位荷兰后印象派画家，是西方艺术史上最著名，最有影响力的人物之一。在短短十年的时间里，他创作了约2100幅艺术品，其中包括860幅油画，大部分作品完成于他生命的最后两年。作品包括风景，静物，肖像和自画像，并以大胆的色彩和戏剧性，以及富有冲动性与表现力的笔法为特征，这对奠定现代艺术的基础做出了贡献。他饱受数年精神疾病和贫困的折磨，在37岁的时候自杀了。
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion, and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium. He drifted in ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881, having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter. His early works, mostly still lifes and depictions of peasant labourers, contain few signs of the vivid colour that distinguished his later work. In 1886 he moved to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting against the Impressionist sensibility. As his work developed he created a new approach to still lifes and local landscapes. His paintings grew brighter in colour as he developed a style that became fully realised during his stay in Arles in the south of France in 1888. During this period he broadened his subject matter to include olive trees, cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.
梵高出生于一个中上层阶级的家庭，他年幼时就开始画画，他个性认真，安静又体贴。他年轻时是艺术品经纪人，经常出差，但在调动到伦敦后变得沮丧。他转向宗教寻找寄托，并在比利时南部担任新教传教士。他搬回家与父母同住后，身体不适并陷入孤独，直到1881年他再次绘画。他的弟弟西奥在经济上支持了他，两人保持了长期的信件往来。他的早期作品主要是静物写生和对农民的描绘，很少采用鲜艳的颜色，而他后期作品则凭借这一点脱颖而出。1886年，他移居巴黎，在那里遇到了先锋派成员，包括埃米尔·伯纳德和保罗·高更，他们反对印象派的敏感性。随着作品的发展，他创造了一种新的方法来描绘静物和当地景观。1888年，他在法国南部的阿尔勒逗留期间，他的绘画风格变得更加鲜明，他的画随之也变得更加明亮。在此期间，他将绘画的题材扩大到包括橄榄树，柏树，麦田和向日葵。
Van Gogh suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions and though he worried about his mental stability, he often neglected his physical health, did not eat properly and drank heavily. His friendship with Gauguin ended after a confrontation with a razor, when in a rage, he severed part of his own left ear. He spent time in psychiatric hospitals, including a period at Saint-Rémy. After he discharged himself and moved to the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, he came under the care of the homeopathic doctor Paul Gachet. His depression continued and on 27 July 1890, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He died from his injuries two days later.
梵高患有精神错乱和妄想，尽管他担心自己心理的稳定性，他却经常忽略自己的身体健康，他饮食不当，而且酗酒。他拿着剃须刀与高更发生冲突，之后两人的友谊结束。愤怒时，他割下了自己左耳的一部分。他在精神病医院度过了一段时间，其中就包括圣雷米医院。他出院后搬到了巴黎附近瓦兹河畔奥韦尔的拉武客栈，之后他受到顺势疗法医生保罗·嘉舍的照顾。他持续抑郁，1890年7月27日，梵高用左轮手枪向自己的胸部开枪。两天后，他因伤病去世了。
Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime, and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist "where discourses on madness and creativity converge". His reputation began to grow in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. He attained widespread critical, commercial and popular success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter, whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist.
梵高一生未果，被认为是疯子和失败者。他自杀后就闻名于世，人们把他想象成一个典型的被误解的天才，一个处于“疯狂与创造力长篇交汇的位置”的画家。20世纪初他绘画风格的元素被野兽派和德国表现主义者所采纳，他的声誉也随之开始增长。在随后的几十年中，他在商业上获得了广泛且具有批判性的成功，被大众所喜爱，并被公认为是一位重要但悲惨的画家，其精神疾病成为了这位艺术家饱受折磨但心怀浪漫理想的典型特征。
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