Why Van Gogh was not hailed as a genius during his lifetime, but became famous after his death

Van Gogh was not hailed as a genius during his lifetime, but he rose to fame after his death for several reasons:

1.Van Gogh was a gifted painter, but his poverty and suffering in life hindered the promotion and recognition of his work. His paintings were mispositioned from the start, and he tried to sell his works to the poor, but this led to his work not receiving enough publicity and recognition.

2.Van Gogh's paintings were not accepted by the people under the aesthetic concept of the time. His painting style did not conform to the mainstream aesthetics of the time, so his work was not widely recognized at the time.

3.When Van Gogh was alive, his work did not receive enough publicity and promotion. His work was mainly promoted by his younger brother Theo, but Theo also died shortly after Van Gogh's death, which made Van Gogh's work forgotten for a while.

4.Van Gogh's works have unique artistic and historical value. His style of painting had a profound influence on later art genres, and his works have become one of the most important representatives of 20th-century art.

Although Van Gogh did not receive widespread recognition and praise during his lifetime, his fame and influence gradually grew after his death, and his works became an important part of world art history.

Each era has its own peculiarities, and many celebrities are not famous in their time, because nothing new or appreciated in that era appeared. Later generations discovered their excellence.

Because Van Gogh's consciousness was too advanced. In the 19th century, it was too avant-garde.

Now when we look at Van Gogh's work, there is no problem at all. But at that time, no one could think outside the box and appreciate such a work without academic atmosphere. Several of the Impressionist masters of the 19th century suffered from the avant-garde.

But only Van Gogh was more unlucky, and after his death the stool banquet became famous. On the one hand, it is because of his personality and mental illness, which makes him incompatible with othersOn the other hand, because Van Gogh was indeed a clumsy hand, in the traditional sense, he was not very good at painting dates.

Color. Van Gogh was a colorist painter, and his preference for color almost reached a state of madness, although this is related to his mental illness, but it cannot be denied that Van Gogh discovered and expressed the creativity of color.

The sleepy colors in his paintings are all more unrestrained and exaggerated, which also deeply influenced the expressionist and Fauvist paintings of the 20th century. Specifically, the unrestrained colors in Van Gogh's paintings are mainly expressed in the following three aspects: first, they are decorated with bright and bright exaggerated colors.

Van Gogh was unsuccessful in his life, and everyone did not appreciate his painting style in that era, but later the times changed, people's aesthetics changed, and his paintings began to sell well, so that the current sky-high prices.

Van Gogh's life: Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in the Dutch countryside to a family of Protestant pastors, and in his early years he worked as a clerk and trading broker, as well as a missionary in the mines, and finally devoted himself to painting. In his early years, he was influenced by traditional Dutch painting and French realism. In 1886, he came to Paris, where he became acquainted with Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painters, and came into contact with the works of Japanese ukiyo-e.

In 1888, when I came to Arles, a small town in the south of France, I had already shaken off the influence of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, and had gone against it. In the same year, he dated Gauguin, but due to the conflict of their personalities and differences in ideas, the cooperation soon failed. After that, Van Gogh suffered frequent episodes of madness (some have recorded it as "epilepsy"), but he continued to paint while he was conscious, and in July 1890, he shot himself in a delirium at the age of 37.

The two brothers touched Theo's wife deeply, and finally spent money on publicity, some people thought it was good before but there was a lack of publicity, which may have something to do with what he had done before, and the reputation was not very good, and the interpersonal relationship was not very good, but I heard that he liked to show himself in front of his brothers since he was a child, because basically no one else had a good relationship with him.

Van Gogh's oil paintings are still more famous, his sketch lines are very simple, powerful, some students who learn to paint if the sketch lines are very floating, I will recommend copying Van Gogh's paintings.