2020 08 12
作者 Article by: Sunny Wong
多伦多梵高艺术展
我儿子提早为我的生日买了梵高艺术展的门票。我的生日是八月，但所有八月的票都已售罄。展览于7:00 pm开始，我们于6:30pm离开家，Lakeshore在周末施工封路，QEW很繁忙。在市中心寻找停车位很困难，好在我们找到了一个附近的停车位，价格为 $30.00。门票每张39.99元加税, 停车费去了一半。你可以选择步入观看或驾车观看。车内观看的费用为$ 94.99不含税，这其实包括了停车费。我们觉得在车上观看，缺乏了环绕的视觉和音响效果，所以选择步入观看。该展览是用Yonge街1号原来多伦多之星印刷厂的空间改制的。这个展览在巴黎有超过200万游客参观。展览展示了梵高最具代表性的作品，使用数码技术使大师的作品焕然一新。
梵高是荷兰人， 他只活了37 岁， 他从27岁才开始画画。在短短的十年中他画了2100 幅画作，包括680 幅油画，最后因精神错乱，自杀身亡。说到他的身世还和宗教有关。 他出身在一个天主教家庭，祖父是神父，父亲也是神职人员，叔叔伯伯是艺术品交易商。他曾在他伯伯的公司任职，他本人也曾任牧师助手，读过神学，翻译过圣经，也做过传教的工作。在向矿工传教期间，他全副身心投入，把自己的房子让给流浪汉，自己住进贫民窟，满身煤灰。他极端的宗教情感和悲天悯人的性格，导致宗教界觉得他不适合做传教士。 他的极端及失恋令他精神分裂。他不会料理自己的日常生活，一直生活在贫困中。最终在他弟弟的鼓励下开始画画，弟弟一直在经济上资助他。
梵高属于后印象派画家。他的后期作品色彩很丰富，很特别。 大概因为他的精神问题，他常有幻觉并对色彩有异于常人的视觉及感应。俗语说天才和疯子只是一线之差。 不少出名的音乐家和艺术家在常人看来都不正常，
他们对独一领域的的狂热令他们出众。 在一次电视访问节目里，一位心理医生对一个出名歌手说：你不应该成功因为你太正常。
梵高是一名天才但在世时只卖出过一幅画，穷困潦倒。他的画在他去世后价格高涨，可能因为他的早逝及悲惨的人生，他的画成为世界上最昂贵的画作，有一幅画曾卖出过一亿美元。要看他的真品不易，这种数码画展是一种新尝试， 将著名的艺术品大众化，好像有名的歌剧歌唱家和流行歌手同台演出，也是一样， 籍此吸引不同时代， 不同背景的人对艺术的关注， 上一堂艺术的入门课。
以下是展览的视屏：
https://youtu.be/nHUtdyVMZxM
上帝对一切都有祂的安排， 人类懵懵懂懂的生活， 尝试做不同的事， 学不同的东西，找寻对自己适合的工作， 其实上帝早有安排，跌碰摔倒是上帝给我们的磨练，只有经历磨练，才能坚强， 才能成长。 在上帝的指引下找到自己的所爱， 才能成功。正如罗马书12章3-8节教导的：
12:3
我 憑 著 所 賜 我 的 恩 、對 你 們 各 人 說 、不 要 看 自 己 過 於 所 當 看 的 。要 照 著 神 所 分 給 各 人 信 心 的 大 小 、 看 得 合 乎 中 道 。
12:4
正 如 我 們 一 個 身 子 上 有 好 些 肢 體 、肢 體 也 不 都 是 一 樣 的 用 處 。
12:5
我 們 這 許 多 人 、在 基 督 裡 成 為 一 身 、互 相 聯 絡 作 肢 體 、也 是 如 此 。
12:6
按 我 們 所 得 的 恩 賜 、各 有 不 同 ．或 說 預 言 、就 當 照 著 信 心 的 程 度 說 預 言 ．
12:7
或 作 執 事 、就 當 專 一 執 事 ．或 作 教 導 的 、 就 當 專 一 教 導 ．
12:8
或 作 勸 化 的 、就 當 專 一 勸 化 ．施 捨 的 、就 當 誠 實 ．治 理 的 、就 當 殷 勤 ．憐 憫 人 的 、 就 當 甘 心。
让我们各尽己能，各施所长，在主里合一，完成祂的使命。
Toronto Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit
My son bought tickets for the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit early for my birthday. My birthday is in August, but all the tickets for August are sold out. The exhibition started at 7:00 pm, we left home at 6:30 pm, Lakeshore closed during the weekend, and QEW was very busy. It is difficult to find a parking space Downtown.
Fortunately, we found a nearby parking space at a price of $30.00. Each ticket is $39.99 plus tax, and the parking fee is almost the ticket fee. You can choose a Walk-in or Drive-in to watch the show. The cost of Drive-in is $94.99 plus tax, actually it includes parking fees. We felt that viewing in the car lacked the surrounding visual and sound effects, so we chose Walk-in. The exhibition was restructured from the original Toronto Star Printing House at No 1 Yonge Street. This exhibition was visited by more than 2 million tourists in Paris. The exhibition showcases Van Gogh's most representative works, using digital technology to give the master's work a new look.
Van Gogh is Dutch. He only lived to be 37 years old. He started painting at the age of 27. In just ten years, he painted 2,100 paintings includes 680 oil paintings, and finally committed suicide due to insanity. Speaking of his life experience is related to religion. He was born in a Catholic family, his grandfather is a priest, his father is also a clergyman, and his uncles are art dealers. He used to work in his uncle’s company, and he was an assistant to the pastor, study theology, translated the Bible, and did missionary work. While preaching to the miners, he devoted himself to giving up his house to the homeless, living in a slum, covered in soot. His extreme religious sentiment and compassionate character caused the religious circles to feel that he was not suitable to be a missionary. His extreme and broken love made him schizophrenic. He can't manage his daily life and has been living in poverty. Eventually, he started painting with the encouragement of his younger brother, who has been supporting him financially.
Van Gogh is a post-impressionist painter. His later works are very colorful and very special. Probably because of his mental problems, he often has hallucinations and colors that are different from ordinary people's vision and perception. As the saying goes, geniuses and lunatics are only a fine line. Many famous musicians and artists are not normal in the eyes of ordinary people, and their enthusiasm for unique fields makes them outstanding. In a TV interview, a psychologist jock to a famous singer: You should not succeed because you are too normal.
Van Gogh was a genius but he only sold one painting when he was alive, and he was impoverished. The price of his paintings rose after his death. Perhaps because of his early death and tragic life, his paintings became the most expensive paintings in the world. One painting sold for 100 million US dollars. It is not easy to see his original painting. This kind of digital art exhibition is a new attempt to popularize famous artworks, as if famous opera singers and pop singers are performing on the same stage. It also attracts people from different eras and backgrounds, to concerned about art, take an introductory class of art.
The following is a video of the exhibition:
https://youtu.be/nHUtdyVMZxM
God has his arrangements for everything. Human beings live ignorantly, try to do different things, learn different things, and find jobs that are suitable for us. In fact, God has his plan for everybody. Stumble and fall is the test God gives us. Only through difficulty and exercise, you will be strong and grow. Under God’s guide by finding what you love it can make you succeed. As Romans 12:3-8 teaches us:
12:3
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
12:4
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
12:6
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
12:7
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;
12:8
Or he that exhorted, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruled, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Let each of us use our special gift and do our best, united into God to fulfill his mission.
