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Grandma Van Gogh died. She didn't know Ding's paintings, but she caused a sensation all over the cou

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Today, 'grandma Van Gogh' left, her son announced in the wechat circle of friends, and the microblog update of 'grandma Van Gogh' also stayed at 13:13 noon on August 1.

The 70 year old grandmother who began to learn painting is called Chang Xiufeng. She was an illiterate old lady in a remote mountain village in Henan Province. In 2003, Chang Xiufeng came to Guangzhou to reunite with her children and grandchildren, but suddenly became a painter. There are many 'fans' on the Internet, known as' grandma Van Gogh'.

In 2007, the reporter of Nanfang Daily interviewed the popular grandmother. Her most touching words to reporters are: 'we can't let our children and grandchildren forget the hard days in the countryside.'

In order to play with her granddaughter, grandma in her seventies changed into a painter

In a quiet mountain village in Fangcheng County, Nanyang, Henan Province, Chang Xiufeng is the only parent in the village who can let all his children out of the mountain. Once their family was poor, the walls were made of mud paste and wood nails, and when there were not enough vegetables at home, they picked wild vegetables. After her training of five children, three graduated from high school and two graduated from college, the family completely walked out of the mountain and got rid of poverty.

'grandma, what do you have in your hometown?' Chang Xiufeng's granddaughter asked her this two years before she came to Guangzhou, so she happily told her granddaughter about the hawthorn tree planted in her hometown.

But the granddaughter still doesn't know what the hawthorn tree looks like. Chang Xiufeng took out crayons and watercolor pens in a hurry. After painting, her granddaughter understood at once.

In order to let her granddaughter know more about her hometown, Chang Xiufeng, who is illiterate and has never learned to draw, began to draw by herself. Her method of drawing is' draw what she looks like '.

Taking her granddaughter's crayons and watercolor strokes has become the greatest pleasure of the old lady's life in this big city she is not used to. Her paintings do not pay attention to skills, real and simple, because those are the lives of the field and old friends who have been with her for many years. In the old man's pen, the old house of the Jiang family, wild cats, birds, rabbits and sunflowers & hellip& hellip; Are extraordinarily beautiful.

The name "grandma Van Gogh" spread, but she thought Van Gogh painted bitterly

In 2006, her son pasted his mother's paintings on his blog and wrote the story of the old man. Unexpectedly, the click through rate of these articles exceeded 80000, and the click through rate of each painting was more than 2000 times. Some people saw her sunflowers and thought that they had the same charm as Van Gogh's sunflowers, so the title of 'grandma Van Gogh' spread.

For a time, 'grandma Van Gogh' became popular all over the network, and major media scrambled to report.

At first, Chang Xiufeng felt strange, because she had never heard of the name 'Van Gogh', she didn't have a surname of Gao, and no one in the village called Van Gogh. Later, her daughter-in-law took Van Gogh's paintings to show her, and she knew that Van Gogh was a foreign painter.

After reading it, Chang Xiufeng felt that the man named Van Gogh must be very unhappy. His sunflowers do not stretch and draw bitterly, while his own sunflowers are warm with sunshine, nourished by land and water. He is very happy.

It is precisely because of her warm painting style that she attracts people's attention and makes people working in big cities feel the power of warmth and nature. Because of painting, Chang Xiufeng also found a 'career' to kill time, as well as' fans' and 'foreign affairs activities', and lived a lively and colorful life in Guangzhou.

I like painting the countryside. I hope my children and grandchildren will not forget the hard days in the countryside

Grandma Van Gogh's paintings are all about the countryside.

A netizen commented that her painting has a aura, which is the aura of the artist; There is a vitality, which is rooted in the folk vitality; There is an atmosphere that transcends the art of painting. She also held an exhibition called "mother Van Gogh's Ode to the four seasons" with hundreds of works, which attracted extensive attention from people at home and abroad. She donated all the proceeds from the exhibition. She once told reporters that she felt very happy to help others with her paintings.

Among the people, on the Internet, 'grandma Van Gogh' already has many 'fans'. In the voice of' fans', works such as grandma Van Gogh's world and our countryside have been published one after another. Her world is actually the vast countryside where she once lived, and her hometown is the source of inspiration for her creation.

Chang Xiufeng may not know what art is and what culture is. The ancient and rare old man from the countryside has touched many people living in flashiness with the true beauty flowing naturally inadvertently, so that they can return to nature in their paintings and don't forget their roots.

Leave the painting for children and grandchildren to see, so that they will not forget the bitter days in the countryside before they grow up. This is the greatest wish that Chang Xiufeng, grandma Van Gogh, said in an interview with Nanfang Daily.