Van Gogh "Vincent's Chair and his Smoking Pipe" (Vincent's Chair with a Pipe). Description of the picture

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Van Gogh was born in Holland into the family of a church minister. His father's brothers were engaged in the painting trade, and 16-year-old Van Gogh also got a job as a salesman in a Parisian art company, but at the age of 23 he decided to become a Bible preacher, like his father. In a mining village in southern Belgium he teaches the Law of God. Observing the complete indifference of the church authorities, after 4 years he breaks with the official religion forever.

At the age of 27, Vincent Van Gogh finally realized his calling as an artist, wanting to serve the people through art.

Fate gave him 10 years for fruitful creativity.

In 1880, Vincent entered the Academy of Arts in Brussels. However, due to his irreconcilable nature, he quits his studies and continues his art education as a self-taught person. Van Gogh leaves for Paris, believing that only there it makes sense to live and create.

In Paris, Van Gogh quickly progressed as an artist, but his uncompromising attitude often involved him in all sorts of feuds. Acquaintance with Paul Gauguin also ends in a quarrel, after which Van Gogh cut off his left earlobe. Gog's eccentricity frightens the townspeople to such an extent that in March 1889 the townspeople write a petition to free the city from the “red-haired madman.” Perhaps the progressive nervous illness was a consequence of alcohol abuse. A mental disorder led him voluntarily to a specialized hospital, but an internal conflict constantly accompanied him until the end of his life. On July 27, 1990, Van Gogh leaves home and goes to the fields to work plein air. Van Gogh shot himself in the heart area with a revolver, bought to scare away flocks of birds while working in the open air, but the bullet passed lower. Thanks to this, he independently gets to the hotel room, but dies two days later.

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In order to answer this question, let us recall the painting itself by the famous artist Van Gogh. On a chair that stands in the middle of the room lies an ordinary pipe.

True, you need to turn on your imagination to understand that this is exactly it.

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) was prompted to paint his painting Van Gogh's Chair (1888) by Luke Fields' drawing The Empty Chair (1870?)

So for the artist, an empty chair began to be associated only with death. Even in his painting, the artist did not depict his own chair as empty, he placed it in the center of the picture, thereby saying that the one who was sitting in it simply left (perhaps he died), but left some kind of his mark, leaving at least a pipe and a pouch of tobacco.



Empty Chair Sir Samuel Luke Fields. (1844-1927). Paper, watercolor. 1870?



Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh painted a painting in 1888 called Van Gogh's Chair. It is no coincidence that the artist placed his chair in the center of the composition, because this piece of furniture is a symbol of support and relaxation for every person, although we do not always think about it. The impetus for painting the canvas was Van Gogh’s impression of Gauguin’s paintings, with whom he was still friends at that time. Gauguin has a whole series of paintings where chairs are empty. An empty chair represented death for Van Gogh, so he decided to place his own pipe and pouch of tobacco on it in his painting. This item is always associated with a living person; without its owner it is lifeless.

The painting has a name, but what? It turns out that it is enough to look at information on this matter on the Internet to understand what the correct answer to the question is. You need to answer: tube. This is the correct answer. You just need a little luck and erudition.

To answer this question correctly, just look at the picture of this chair and the answer will be visible. There is a PIPE on the chair, and in addition to the pipe on the chair there is also a small bag intended for tobacco.

The correct answer will be the words - A TUBE!

Questions about art cause quite a lot of problems; it is clear that very often no attention is paid to it. But in our age, finding the right picture is not so difficult.

Therefore, PIPE. Although Van Gogh could have anything, he had a special way of thinking.

Vincent van Gogh had many remarkable paintings, one such painting of his depicts a chair on which lies nothing more than a smoking pipe. The painting itself is called Van Gogh's Chair. Correct answer: a tube.

Apparently, the question refers to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh called Paul Gauguin's Chair, in which we can see an empty chair, but on it lies a pipe and a bag of tobacco. It follows that the second answer option is suitable for us and this will be the answer - A tube. In the picture presented, everything is clearly visible.



In a painting by a famous artist called Van Gogh's Chair there is a pipe.

Answer: a tube.



What is the point of depicting an ordinary chair? For the artist-thinker it is philosophical: if the chair were empty, for Van Gogh it would be a symbol of death: no one would sit on this comfortable and reliable piece of furniture. But there is a pipe on the chair, which means the owner just went away for a while and will return soon.

First you need to understand which Van Gogh painting we are talking about, although there is a hint in the question, it mentions a chair. The very name of the painting is Van Gogh's Chair, there are really few objects depicted on it, the chair is in the foreground, and on it is the Pipe, this is the answer.

The question is quite simple if you see the picture itself. In extreme cases, its detailed description is quite suitable, when art critics are looking for the hidden meaning of what is depicted on Van Gogh’s canvas and sometimes speculate on what the artist himself may not have had in mind when he created it.

In our case, the correct answer will be the second one - A TUBE.



Connoisseurs of the work of the famous Dutch painter, post-impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh, will probably remember his canvas called Van Gogh's Chair - there are very few objects in the painting, so it will not be difficult to give the correct answer to this quiz question - a smoking area is clearly visible on the chair A tube.

“It is better to do nothing than to express yourself weakly.” Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh spent a long time looking for something in which he could express himself to the fullest. He began painting at the age of 27. And he devoted himself to this business with all his passion. 10 years of working to the limit. He was straining himself. Shaking your physical and mental health.

But in this fire of self-immolation, he created one masterpiece after another.

True, no one took his efforts seriously. Many of his paintings were destroyed by those to whom he gave them. Even his own mother left dozens of her son’s paintings abandoned when she moved. They all disappeared without a trace.

And Van Gogh himself often sold them for pennies to a junk dealer. He resold them for reuse to other artists.

Despite all these losses, 3,000 of his works have reached us. Of these, 800 are oil paintings! One every 1-2 days!

Here are just 5 of his paintings. I took the work of the last 2 years of his life. When he became the Van Gogh we know. It was during this period that most of his masterpieces were created.

1. Sunflowers. August 1888

August 1888. Van Gogh has been living in the south of France for several months now. In the city of Arles. He came here for bright colors. Here he created a series of paintings with “Sunflowers”.

The London version is one of the most widely circulated. We see it on bags, postcards or phone cases.

It is surprising that ordinary flowers have become almost a symbol of the entire world of painting. What is so unusual about them?

The pot and background are drawn very schematically. It’s not clear whether it’s a table, or the distant horizon and sand. Flowers are not beautiful. Some of them have torn petals. And the majority are completely mutating.

Note that they look more like asters than sunflowers. Such flowers are sterile and occasionally appear among healthy flowers. But they were the ones Van Gogh chose for the bouquet.

Maybe that’s why “Sunflowers” ​​evokes conflicting feelings among many? On the one hand, Van Gogh wanted to show the beauty of existence. He liked sunflowers because they bring benefits to humans. But he inadvertently chooses fruitless flowers.

This is very similar to the tragedy of the artist himself. He longed to be useful to others. But people's reactions to his paintings each time showed only one thing: his efforts were fruitless.

He never dared to dream that his paintings would delight millions of people.

You can compare the paintings in this series in the article.

2. Night cafe terrace. September 1888

Van Gogh painted not only flowers in Arles, but also the city itself. “Cafe Terrace at Night” is one such cityscape.

Anyone who has been to Arles will immediately notice how different the city in Van Gogh’s paintings is from the real city.

It was an industrial, dirty town. True, it had an ancient history. It was founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 3rd century. In the center of the city there is a Roman amphitheater, very similar to the Colosseum.

It’s strange, but you won’t find this amphitheater in any of Van Gogh’s paintings. Although he captured almost every corner of Arles. And I passed by the main attraction of the city!

This very much characterizes Van Gogh. He looked past ordinary things. He saw the most unusual things. He saw the soul of flowers and stones. He noticed how the stars breathe. But he ignored the obvious.

He wrote the cafe three nights in a row. Right out in the open under the night sky. Have you ever seen an artist painting at night?

But this again is Van Gogh’s unusualness. He believed that the night is richer in colors than the day. And he was able to prove this “ridiculous” statement with his “Night Terrace”.

There is not a drop of black paint in the picture. Thick brush strokes make the yellow and blue even more vibrant. These colors are accompanied by purple and orange reflections on the pavement. This is one of Van Gogh's most striking and positive works. Even though it's night before us!

3. Self-portrait with a cut off ear and a pipe. January 1889

“Self-Portrait with a Pipe” was painted in the Arles hospital. Where did the artist end up after his legendary story with his cut off ear?

It all started with the arrival of Gauguin. Van Gogh wanted to create a school-workshop, seeing Gauguin as its leader. They began to live and work under the same roof.

Van Gogh was very impractical in everyday life. This irritated the neat and collected Gauguin. Van Gogh was too emotional, he argued until he was blue in the face. Gauguin was self-confident and did not tolerate anyone doubting his opinion. Can you imagine what it was like for such people to get along? I found a scythe on a stone.

When Van Gogh realized that they were not on the same path, he lost his mind. He attacked his friend with a razor. Gauguin stopped him with his menacing gaze.

Then Van Gogh directed the aggression towards himself, cutting off his earlobe. Such a gesture may seem very strange. If you don’t know one feature of Arles.

A bullfight took place in the already mentioned amphitheater. But it was more humane than in Spain. The defeated bull's ear was cut off. Van Gogh cut off his ear, considering himself a loser.

The story with Gauguin was only the last straw. By that time, Van Gogh’s nervous system was already greatly shaken by the frantic rhythm of work and constant malnutrition.

He once worked for 4 days without sleep, drinking 23 cups of coffee during that time! Imagine what would happen to you after such abuse of your body.

And after the first nervous attack, Van Gogh creates his strange self-portrait. It is written in complementary colors. These are colors that enhance each other. Red becomes even redder next to green. No wonder these colors are used in traffic lights.

But this enhancement is painful for the eyes. The colors become too loud. But they convey the cacophony in the artist’s soul.

4. Starry night. June 1889

The story of the cut off ear greatly frightened Van Gogh's neighbors. They wrote a petition demanding that the “madman” be expelled from Arles. He submitted. And he voluntarily went to a mental hospital in the small town of Saint-Remy.

One of his most famous masterpieces, “Starry Night,” was written here.

This is one of the few works that he did NOT write from life. Van Gogh was not allowed out of the hospital at night. Only during the day, accompanied by a health worker.

Therefore, “Starry Night” was created in the imagination. Only from the window of his chamber Van Gogh saw a piece of the sky and stars. And at the same time, Venus, which that month was visible to the naked eye. The brightest star in Vincent's sky is the planet Venus.

Van Gogh believed that everything in our world has a soul. Both a flower and a stone. Even space breathes. This is what he conveyed in his “Starry Night”. He achieved this by using an unusual arrangement of strokes around each star and moon. The swirls also helped make the sky “alive.”

“Starry Night” is written in my favorite combination of yellow and blue. The attacks subsided. Van Gogh found hope that the disease had gone away. Soon he will leave the medical institution and move to another town of Auvers.

Also read about the painting in the article.

5. Blossoming almond branches. January 1890

Van Gogh painted the painting as a gift to his brother, who had a son. He was named after his uncle, Vincent. Van Gogh wanted his new parents to hang the painting above their bed. Almond blossoms mean the beginning of a new life.

The picture is very unusual. It's like lying under a tree and looking at the branches. Which spread out against the sky.

The picture is decorative. But Van Gogh strove for this in many of his works. He created them to decorate the homes of ordinary people with modest incomes. It is unlikely that he imagined that his paintings would be available only to the very rich.

Six months after writing “Almond Blossoms,” Van Gogh would die. According to the official version, it was suicide.

The version of suicide was almost never disputed by anyone. After all, she made the legend of Van Gogh more dramatic. This only fueled interest in him, and prices for his paintings rose.

But here's what's strange. In the last months of his life, his works were one more positive than the other. Does Almond Blossom sound like the work of someone contemplating suicide?

Moreover, in Auvers, where he moved, his loneliness receded. Here he found many friends. They began to take interest in his paintings. Rave reviews began to appear in the press.

The version of murder by negligence (put forward in 2011 by writers Nayfi and White-Smith) is currently being considered.

When Van Gogh returned wounded to his room, he did not have a pistol with him. His easel and the paints he was working with that day were also not found. At the same time, one of the residents urgently left the city, taking with him two teenage brothers. There was a pistol in this family.

Van Gogh was reluctant to answer police questions about what happened. He insisted that he did it himself. It was as if Van Gogh decided to take all the blame on himself so that the child would not go to prison.

Such self-sacrifice was quite in his spirit. This is what he once did when he was an assistant pastor. He gave his last shirt to the poor. He cared for typhoid patients without thinking about the risk of infection.

PS.

Van Gogh passed away at the age of genius. At 37 years old. Short life. The creative path is even shorter. But during this time he managed to change the vector of development of all painting.

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Van Gogh created the painting “Vincent’s Chair with Pipe” in addition to the previously painted “Gauguin’s Chair”. In 1888, Paul Gauguin visited him in Arles. They were friends, and Van Gogh painted these still lifes as a kind of personification of their characters.

The painting shows a chair standing on the floor of a room. But this is not just an interior detail. Looking at it, the viewer immediately begins to think about who the chair belongs to and why it is painted that way.

An old wicker seat that has lost its appearance over many years of use. Somewhat knocked together legs, which, it would seem, are about to come apart. The feeling of unsteadiness and instability is enhanced by the flat image of the floor, which makes it appear almost vertical. While painting the parquet floor, the artist seemed to have forgotten about perspective, and it seemed as if the chair was about to slide down. The old age and “tiredness” of the furnishings and objects is emphasized by the muted color scheme and dull bluish contours of the details.

The artist depicted a pipe on the seat, indicating that someone had recently sat on the chair. Traces of a person's presence remain, but the person himself is no longer there. In one of his letters, Van Gogh described his condition, which caused his separation from his father. Then the sight of the empty chair where his father had been sitting half an hour ago upset Vincent almost to tears. The exact same feeling of loneliness and devastation is present in this picture.