《星光灿烂之夜》和背景介绍

Don McLean\'s Starry, starry night



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森特·凡·高（Vincent van Gogh, 1853.3.30-1890.7.29）出生在荷兰一个乡村牧师家庭。他是后印象派的三大巨匠之一。
　　凡·高年轻时在画店里当店员，这算是他最早受的“艺术教育”。后来到巴黎，和印象派画家相交，在色彩方面受到启发和熏陶。以此，人们称他为“后印象派”。但比印象派画家更彻底地学习了东方艺术中线条的表现力，他很欣赏日本葛饰北斋的“浮世绘”。而在西方画家中，从精神上给他更大的影响的则是伦勃郎、杜米埃和米莱（Millet）。
　　凡·高生性善良，同情穷人，早年为了“抚慰世上一切不幸的人”，他曾自费到一个矿区里去当过教士，跟矿工一样吃最差的伙食，一起睡在地板上。矿坑爆炸时，他曾冒死救出一个重伤的矿工。他的这种过分认真的牺牲精神引起了教会的不安，终于把他撤了职。这样，他才又回到绘画事业上来，受到他的表兄以及当时荷兰一些画家短时间的指导，并与巴黎新起的画家（包括印象派画家）建立了友谊。
　　凡·高全部杰出的、富有独创性的作品，都是在他生命最后的六年中完成的。他最初的作品，情调常是低沉的，可是后来，他大量的作品即一变低沉而为响亮和明朗，好象要用欢快的歌声来慰藉人世的苦难，以表达他强烈的理想和希望。一位英国评论家说：“他用全部精力追求了一件世界上最简单、最普通的东西，这就是太阳。”他的画面上不单充满了阳光下的鲜艳色彩，而且不止一次地下面去描绘令人逼视的太阳本身，并且多次描绘向日葵。为了纪念他去世的表兄莫夫，他画了一幅阳光下《盛开的桃花》，并题写诗句说：“只要活人还活着，死去的人总还是活着。”
　　人们如果确能真诚相爱，生命则将是永存的，这就是凡·高的愿望和信念。可是冷酷和污浊的现实终于使这个敏感而热情的艺术家患了间歇性精神错乱，病发之时陷于狂乱，病过之后则更加痛苦。他不愿增加别人（尤其是弟弟提奥）的负担，于1890年7月23日自杀，几天后身亡，享年只有37岁。几个月后，曾经把自己全部热爱和物力献给他的提奥也死去了。人们说：提奥是为了凡·高而生的……
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer\'s day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colours on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They did not know how
Perhaps they\'ll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds and violet haze
Reflect in Vincent\'s eyes of china blue
Colours changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artists\' loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They did not know how
Perhaps they\'ll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

Like the strangers that you\'ve met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They\'re not listening still
Perhaps they never will...


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