Van Gogh Musuem

From central station, we take tram 2 to Museumplein. The tram ticket can buy from the driver after you go into the tram. There are different types of ticket and the driver will not explain to you. Usually they will give you 1 hour ticket which is E2.60. Mean the ticket is only valid for 1 hour. 2 hours ticket is E5. For 24hours ticket, it is Euro 7. 72 hours is Euro 15. So spend wisely.

It is not difficult to locate Van Gogh musuem after get down from the tram. Along the walkway , there are many colorful elephant statue. It will display for sometime before send for auction. The money receive from auction will donate to charity.

It cost me E12.50 entrance fees to the musuem. Photographing is prohibited inside the musuem. This is the first time i saw so many different style of drawing came from one painter -Vincent Van Gogh. Honestly i really dont how to appreciate it. Maybe i dont have the enlightenment on his painting. Van Gogh's painting style is so dramatic! Some is consider normal for me, just like below picture.
Another famous painting, describing the lifestyle of a poor farmer family, they are having potato as dinner. For this series, whole picture is dark, very dark. Like you look something without the light in the night.This picture consider good already, got some even darker.
Another type of drawing is the whole picture construct from line and dot.Below picture is the self painting of Van Gogh.
The most famous painting -sunflower. When i saw the real picture with my eye, the first question come across my mind is " is this sunflower" ?? Honestly it really does not look like sunflower!

After visiting the first musuem, i just feel that art is so subjective. For me, i prefer Da Vinci's painting more than Van Gogh. But then how do we actually define the value? How do we justify this painting is valuable or not? Maybe Van Gogh is suffered from the mental illness make him painted so many different type of paintings?Why painters always only get famous after they die? Why? However, i think Van Gogh will feel happy by seeing his work been appreciated by people from around the world even so many years after he die.