Poke up the mysterious veil to hide in the painting that Van Gogh

I do not know if this is a fate, or a sad, many great artists who have historically affected the world so far, all of whom became famous after their death, as was the case of Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh For one example, in his short life, he sold only one painting. It may be an option. Van Gogh was born in 1853 and his early career did not have much to do with painting (though Van Gogh's then-high Van Gogh family had a lot of relatives involved in the art trade and Van Gogh experienced it) until In 1879, he preached in the mining area an incredible dismissal from the church and the subsequent blows of love. He lost his faith in God and his life and lived in different cities. Painting brought Van Gogh a new direction from 1880 In the beginning, van Gogh's painting career really opened until the end of life.

Van Gogh self portrait at the end of 1888 mental disorders cut off an ear

At this time, in another part of Europe, a workshop that is equally dedicated to the minds of its own people has created a legend of the times by virtue of the founder's self-study and invention. This is the Jaeger-LeCoultre. The mid-19th century, the Swiss watch industry has not yet reached the size of a world watch giant, the watch still need to rely on several small home workshop OEM, the final assembly to complete, product founder Antoine LeCoultre and his son Elie first time The local watch craftsmen together, mutual exchange and sharing of skills, this model allows watchmaking technology to grow rapidly, watches and clocks Antoine LeCoultre introduced patents and inventions, and further promote the Workshop, from the traditional home-style Workshop, Jaejang gradually expanded into a "big workshop" with hundreds of artisans. Since then, Jaeger-LeCoultre continuous exploration in the watchmaking technology and super complex structure of the search, making Jaeger-LeCoultre world-renowned.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Art Workshop

One is an artist who lived in the late 19th century but had a far-reaching impact on the 20th century western art world. The first was a watchmaking workshop that was born in the early 19th century and made an outstanding contribution to the world's mechanical time history. Hundreds of years of time orbit have not had any intersection. When Jaeger gradually realized the importance of art to culture, Jaeger-Le-Foner decisively devoted himself to the creation of art and the inheritance of art. As a result, they had intimate contact with each other again and again in this era.

Van Gogh in "Sunflower"

In 2015, it was the 125th anniversary of Van Gogh's death. There was a wave of art tribute to Van Gogh around the world. Van Gogh's works have been exhibited in many countries, including China, in the form of multimedia. Van Gogh's home country, Amsterdam, capital of Van Gogh, Amsterdam, commemorates the memorable occasion of the ceremony, combining multiple structures to commemorate the high vatican countries of France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Through an important partner of Jaeger-LeCoultre, the Gasssn family of well-known jewelers and watches in the Netherlands introduced Jaeger-Leigh and Van Gogh Museum's unprecedented collaboration to launch Van Gogh's "Sunflower" ReversoàEclipse watch limited edition commemorative watch.

Van Gogh "sunflower"

Van Gogh created a total of nearly 2,200 works in his life, while the sunflower theme works of more than ten pieces. From mid-1888 to early 1889, Van Gogh was obsessed with sunflowers in the southern Albanian region of France where he lives. Sunshine color and vitality of flowers, gave him a lot of spiritual comfort. After 1885, inspired by the vivid and bold colors of Japanese Ukiyo-e and Parisian Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists, he gradually abandoned the gloomy gloomy colors of the past and turned to bright colors. In 1888, he painted many works handed down and Sunflower was painting during this period. He painted sunflowers many times before entering the mental hospital in 1889. The bright colors of "Sunflowers" show a sunshine spirit, and they use these paintings to decorate their living environment in "Yellow House" and paint themselves with color.

Product Reverso eclipse "sunflower" watch

Jaeger-LeCoultre chose the "Sunflower" oil on canvas as a blueprint for the creation of the National Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands. The enamel master of the brand art workshop was carefully prepared for this purpose. Using the most difficult micro-painting enamel process, Reproduce this work. ReversoàEclipse is an unusual family of Reverso special watch series, in 2006, Jaeger LeCoultre in order to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the series, specially made this unique series, through the 2 o'clock position of the wheel, you can open and close Louvered dial, and can be fully open, fully closed and half-open, etc., to show the magic of the magic dial. Since then, the theme of this series of watches increasingly rich, Reverso has even become a very representative family plot series.

Jaeger-LeCoultre ReversoàEclipse "Sunflower" theme watch made of 18K rose gold case, a total of limited edition 5, the internal use Jaeger-LeCoultre small round manual movement caliber 849, its thickness is only 1.85 mm, 35 hours dynamic storage . The use of such a small movement is intended to give more space for the 192 parts with blinds dials and enamel dials. In this unique enamel dial, Jaeger-LeCoultre enamel masters need to burn a large white enamel on the metal placenta for many times. Then, based on this, small enamel glazes with different colors of enamel as "pigments ", In such a small dial according to the proportion of the original, micro-painted" sunflower ", and after repeated firing. As the original works of oil painting, brush strokes on the difference and to the micro-painted enamel caused great trouble, enamel master need careful treatment of every detail, in order to enamel form, reproduce the original style.

Van Gogh himself self-portrait in his eyes

In 2016, Jaeger-LeCoultre ushered in the 85th anniversary of the Reverso series, Jaeger-Le-van Gogh again to Van Gogh Museum, Vatican famous self-portrait for the design of the ReversoàEclipse watch the source, once again launched a ReversoàEclipse watch. Self-portrait is a very important part of Van Gogh's paintings. By painting to reproduce the expressions and gestures of his own paintings, the painting selected by Jaeger-Leandr is a work by Van Gogh painted in 1887-1888 when he was about to leave Paris, to France Al. This painting is the traditional format of a standard painter's self-portrait, with a similar style to Rembrandt's self-portrait painter "before the easel" and the self-portrait of Cezanne.

Vatican high self portrait

After completing this self-portrait creation, Van Gogh wrote to his very close sister and gave a detailed description of the self-portrait, with a greyishly reddish face, wrinkles on his mouth and forehead, green eyes, The beard was red, messy like a long time without being trimmed, people looked so depressed, and then he wrote again in the letter that he was not the reality, without beard and hair and not blue. All of the descriptions show Van Gogh's character as a post-Impressionist artist-what he does not paint, but what he thinks and how sluggish he is. Here he has been processed, which also reflects his identity, spirit and living conditions.

Jaeger-Leigh van Gogh classic paintings by micro-painted enamel

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Experienced in 2015 Reverso eclipse series for Vatican high painting mastering, as well as the series of 10 years of world famous paintings of successful experience, this 2016 Reverso eclipse watch also with very detailed micro-painted enamel craft, once again presented Vatican · High this self portrait. With the creation of a micro-painted enamel, the blue collarless workwear worn by Van Gogh in the paintings, the paint on the paint pan, the brush in his hand, the easel and his red messy beard, wrinkles on his forehead and mouth Reflected, even the texture brought by oil painting are as full as possible to show. Only the superb enamel process, can control such a difficult miniature painting.

In 2016, the brand new Reversoà Eclipse Van Gogh self-portrait watch has a limited edition of 4, and is also equipped with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Caliber 849. The watch is made of platinum, each priced at € 101,000 (US $ 110,000) Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum on display.

"Starry Night on the Rhône" and "Starry Sky" Van Gogh's Trouble

Of course, Jaeger-Leyland and Van Gogh's close contact are not limited to the Reverso eclipse series. To Jaeger-LeCoultre extraordinary technology combined with high standards of mechanical watchmaking technology, Jaeger-Leavin Van Gogh's famous painting "Starry Night on the Rhône" modeled on the complex series of three Masterpieces of sophisticated watches. "Starry Night on the Rhône" was created in 1888 and lit by bright yellow dotted lake lights in the cool dark blue night sky with intense contrast to show the night's quietness. Although the blue sky is very deep, the right The lower corner of an elderly couple walking in the lake, peaceful and peaceful scene gives the heart of warmth and tranquility.

Jaeger-LeCoultre series of traditional masters "Starry Night on the Rhône" three questions watch

Jaeger-LeCoultre Traditional Masters Series Three questions to watch Select such a picture, through the watch asked three ringing tones, bringing the picture more vivid. 18K gold watch to use to create materials, limited edition 18, built-in movement has 437 parts. Finely painted in the form of a micro-painted enamel, this Van Gogh painting is once again vividly condensed into a dial of 39 mm in diameter and the details are still in line with the paintings. It can not help but marvel at the subtlety and excellence of Jaeger-LeCoultre's enamel process.

However, Van Gogh's most famous painting, how can less the famous "starry sky", which is Van Gogh created during the treatment of mental hospital, this painting fully embodies the impressionist style of expression, completely distorted The starry sky and swirling night sky express the melancholy and psychedelic of this high spiritual world at this time. Deep cyan is one of Van Gogh's favorite colors, orange, bright yellow, and dark black, which confuses ordinary people with the beauty of starry sky, but this is exactly what Van Gogh had in mind. Thus, Jaeger-LeCoultre this highly representative Vatican paintings, the same micro-painted enamel process for miniature, in the family of master series Tourbillon watch wonderful reproduction, 18K white gold case, built-978 automatic On the chain movement, watch limited edition 18.

Summary: genius and madman only a single line, Van Gogh highest achievement works, was actually in his spirit into a state of hardship completed, the reality of suffering let him prematurely into the valley of despair through the painting despite Let him find new hope, but in the end did not let him get rid of the reality of distress. Van Gogh's works profoundly influenced the art history of the West in the 20th century and even today still give us a lot of inspiration. Jaeger-LeCoultre, the same from the 19th century across time and space, with exquisite enamel art and mechanical watchmaking process, to bring a dialogue across the borders of art, with a new form, to Van Gogh paintings bring new vitality.


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