That Little Something that was are you talking only sometimes just as much as head on head i love on lots and i love many pang to consider searching google getting bongo morning. But as a. Whole my favorite too so i want to visit his place i want to see where he lives and and. They search for him in the fields of france. And exhibitions worldwide vincent has a huge digital image. Some flow. To him. As a face its something that every artist tries to consolation cheerfully about. Their day. Vincent van gogh lives alone especially in peoples minds because his life has become the stuff of legend but who was he really and how did his legend grow to become an international phenomenon. Where school was a village northwest of paris bangalore came here in may 8090 and over the 70 days created dozens of Oil Paintings on july 27 aged just 37 he shot himself and died of his wounds 2 days later. Dominique shall yun sins presides over the institute bangor you know there a village which artists say zara and monet also visited. Tourism and i come here every week to clean up a bit of the dried leaves and so forth. And i find that visitors have left messages and gaps. Asian people bring oranges and lemons. I want to become they are heres a statuette of a Person Holding a guitar. Every day people bring flowers. Jewish people place stones on the grave. And here you can see ashes. Cremated remains of artists who wanted to be laid to rest near find god you keep it on video it dont go. This is the all bears are a small hotel where van gough lived and worked in their small was in 1905 dominique. A belgian entrepreneur bought it and founded the institute fangirl to preserve the artists memory. He leased out the bar where van gogh once sat its now a restaurant. Vango his attic room is where he died in july 890. If you do get to go here i have 2 different types of visitors. There are the funky junkies who know everything about him and his paintings hes like a hero to them. Thats about 10 to 15 percent of. Another 10 to 15 percent have read his letters or so. And then the rest only know the Hollywood Foreign guard so theyre not a man who cut off one of his ears associated with prostitutes drank a lot and killed himself on our own country in 43. 00 corners you see. This is the solar painted in 888 lang is often portrayed as a typical artist misunderstood impoverished struggling with himself over a period of 10 years he created nearly 900 paintings and more than 1000 drawings a huge achievement he also wrote an estimated 900 letters in some of them he spoke about the meaning of life vanguard possessed enormous Creative Energy but was he driven by his socalled madness by his genius. On the next question on the longer youve heard the saying you cant see the forest for the trees of all the volleys on worker for so many myths and misunderstandings have grown up around found. That you can hardly see the historical reality just another story if you do and question to 0 value to a vendor vein is scientific advisor at the Vanguard Institute and an internationally recognized expert on the life and work of the artist vandeven wrote his doctoral thesis on bangle literary role models and has spent years studying his correspondence. He also transcribed the artists letters for the Van Gogh Museum in amsterdam vandeven says that a selective reading of this correspondence obscures the artists image including for example his pragmatism. Bank was an odd dealer before he became an artist. Vincent and his brother theo worked for some of the top dealers of their time theo provided vincent with Financial Support throughout his life early on vincent set high goals for himself he often wore fine clothes he spoke several languages and read books favored by the dutch educated elite lepard ali dont you the brothers intellectual environment was shaped by those books their lives were very very middle class and of. The books as they own it were beautifully made with gilt edges and leather covers. And so they were not before and under educated as is so often claimed all. On the contrary they were very cultured and sophisticated people who really for you know the. Many of his letters vincent talked about money but not because he was poor hard work and Financial Success were part of his religious beliefs. Professor of course agenda not so long ago he was always talking about making money. And you have to remember that he was a dutch calvinist youre someone who grew up the letter addition in which social function plays a major role. Really you dont you say so that was his motivation artists have to be properly compensated for their work. He paid a lot of attention to the business side of things. They speak its hard to get people to understand that because it is usually for trade as an unselfish hero who sacrificed himself for his art. If you dont like created paintings because he believed that they had economic value. Like an art dealer. Only only back then it was not a case of art for arts sake if you. When i speak on this topic at conferences also a lot of people reject this view luke as wrong its like they have this sacred and mitch of a selfless kind of. You didnt have a small. Margin look who did it you just saw it i believe that vincent entail found god created a Company Incorporated a funk often Funk Corporation so to speak human on it that ought to go. I know of no other company that was founded in 880 s. And is still so successful today. Its very profitable and a lot of people share and those profits on. The 1st years of the corporation went badly and during their lifetime vincent and theo didnt make a lot of money from it but today the bangle business is booming. This is the village of labeled a pulse in the south of france. A bangle multimedia display is located in an old limestone quarry. The artists life as expressed in his paintings. The images are choreographed to a special soundtrack. He left all his mistakes behind and that makes. Infinitely charming. And despite those mistakes and his personal problems hes now an enormously successful one of the worlds most famous painters normal. Was absolutely fearless and saw has and vulnerability as qualities so many people find that appealing ok those are very attractive human characteristics as humans. Everyone seems to have their own personal vincent but what was vying really like. Its time to check the facts to do that weve come to the Shtetl Museum in frankfurt a mine whose fuss and yet. I find his paintings and drawings absolutely fascinating but im less interested in the myths that have grown up around guns and dont tell me how. You cant evaluate his work properly if you focus too much on his personal life as if i kept on what. I think ive retained and increased my fascination for the original business and if a sin not so when i dont just die i got a dog in oslo. News in the cutoff of this work shows a woman who is planting potatoes but we dont see her face the focus is on her bulky limbs her hands and her clogs it is like a big shapeless forms and you can see that it was difficult for vanguard to draw the human figure. He learned to draw from textbooks. And i think its worth noting that he had no proper academic training in art. And one of the non looked down if you will the figure may seem modern to us today but if the tired and dos contemporaries complained that he got the proportions all wrong on the ima be done in cookies yet and one of the nuns into his phone line was in contrast isnt to compare that work from 885 to this one to 895 you can see that his style is already changing the end of the fundies a movie from hasnt figures to portraits cost money and joy doing portraits of modern people down and mention. That was a deliberate move by vango he was reacting to changes in the art market. In this portrait he includes themes of self perception like something you might see these days on instagram. By gosh they. Got him to pics dr gushee in a typical melancholic pose like do are used for his famous engraving. But hes not referencing do a lot of work theyre quite admired. By the gender equality that shows for quite a tussle in a sane asylum than hostile act as are in a melancholic cold with an atmosphere of genius and madness in the background and in type one type. The shtetl was the 1st Public Museum in germany to buy works by vanguard. 190818 years after the artists death it acquired farmhouse in newnan and in 1911 the portrait of dr ghosh a the museum still has the frame of the gosh a portrait but not the painting itself it was seized by the nazis in 1937 and later sold in 1900 someone from japan paid 82000000. 00 for the painting its not known who owns it now. Alexander island takes a sober approach to his study of van gulfs work and he succeeds in getting closer to him through drawings and prints. The Van Gough Museum in amsterdam which contains the Worlds Largest collection of the artists paintings and drawings some 2000000. 00 people visit the museum every year and each of them brings with them their own personal concept of the man and his work out of the museums experts see him. I. I think the more we know about the horse about his about his life about his work the more you realize that are that are still so many things that you dont know and theres new questions coming up so in the case of the sunflowers. There was an Extensive Research project. Which really focused very much on his switch ariels and his technique so the painting was really. Looked at in depth with all these different techniques in the conservation studio. Weve often found under drawings we even have found under drawing painting when he is using the perspective frame to lay out his composition or to help him lay out his composition to get the perspective right and this is a device that he has sketched in the letter for hawk was very methodical in his way of working and thats also confirmed by all the research that weve done into his steak nukes and his materials he was really planning his picture. Yes and his drawings and he was often calculating even the amount of pain to study would need to you know to to paint a specific amount of canvases. Did vanguard take the same calculating approach to professional success he was certainly a master of self promotion. You might say that he tried to market himself as a brand with sunflowers as a company logo. This really choosing that subject as something that he can make his own and then later on he really says ive chosen the sunflowers and ive really been the 1st one to take the sunflower as the as it is a subject its of course not hes of course not the 1st one but it but hes now his paintings are the most famous there in art history. And its simply not true that vanguard did not sell a single painting during his lifetime. He was born and raised in the broadband region in the netherlands. Bangle painted this picture of the church in newnham in 1904 his father was a minister here and as a young man vincent worked for a while as a Protestant Missionary in belgium but in 982 he sold a few drawings in the hague. Van gough early works often portrayed the lives of farmers. This is the potato eaters from 1885 his 1st large work in oil. Vincent road to theo that this painting shows people who worked with their hands and earned their food honestly he noted that this life was quite different from then that of the educated middle class. The 1st time god was fascinated by far more. But he knew that society always changes with you its arms started to disappear its not that and he knew well that there was more and more industrialization of what is it. An omelet and when he asked people to pose for him and he didnt want to come across as a wealthy artist i didnt want and he said he like these people and wanted to live a life that was similar to that of a farmers and laborers and coal miners and that and by one button ah but on that didnt call ah by a time when i had signed a kite on fresh saying tot he often gave away his clothes or went around looking shabby when hot dogs and im tired of it he believed that this gave him credibility and a sense of selfsacrifice that was inspired by jesus christ steps off gob and of course then god had some very wealthy relatives survived it and with Financial Support if my we dont want us to its not his apparent poverty gave him street cred high as we say today hard to street credibility you might do the swat when lots and in fact his brother theo enabled him to enjoy a good standard of living he regularly sent him a lot of money every 2 weeks perhaps out of love but perhaps because he hopes the investment would pay off after all theo was a not dealer. In 886 a vincent moved to paris to live with theo the french capital was the center of the european art world. Vincent met a number of impressionist at the paint supply shop owned by dealer pair. Vango changed his style again to capture the light of paris he placed thin layers of paint on top of each other dull and flat and transparent. And he put dots of complementary colors next to each other instead of mixing them. The view from his brothers apartment theo was never able to sell this piece there was too much competition from the impressionists. Are improvised Southern France. Bangles spent 15 months here painting his now masterpieces. There are references to him just about everywhere you go in the city. Our look is also home to the van Gough Foundation which is dedicated to honoring the artists work and exploring the impact that it has on contemporary art. The foundation often displays bangle paintings borrowed from world class collections. We are asked swiss art historian. Why vang dos works are still so relevant today longo is just dance into it was very interesting and important for him to move away from so long art and conventional compositions. He wanted to create art that had an immediate visual impact. And by doing that he anticipated trends that became common in the 20th century into this just see those trends today in advertising and on the internet sat straight to the message. That he wanted to create artistic tension and this is paint a branch of a tree that crosses the entire painting well the human figures were quite small and socially he used it to dimensional style and that was also he element conservation. At that time van gogh was inspired by japanese wood block prints which were popular among many of his contemporaries he suddenly start a very big collection of 660 prints and we know why did that because the relationship with theo was. Becoming more feeble and he was afraid that c. E. O. Would kick him out maybe give him less money so he thought that he should have something on the side kind of odd dealership he had in mind and he would make money in the beginning but maybe later on so these were the kind of feelings that he had he began to copy the japanese prints in oil on canvas. So if you want to understand those airplanes prince you do not have to focus on much from the prince but the magic word is primitivism to certain extent and being decorative so it had to be flat flat means that theres no space practive in it and well those prints are fret so we learned from them how to do that but of course he had to learn it all by himself the formal design and structure of japanese prints soon found their way into vang goss work like this painting called armand blossom. It was painted in the south of france. Vincent wrote to theo at the time that he felt like he was in japan my. Generation art has 1st break away from the western tradition hues deeply influenced by japanese prints and the japanese princess also associates of its trends and teams so that means you look at the subject on the way painted as not exactly a subject. But is a separate subject to your mind and your heart so you remember rise it you restructure of tbilisi your mind i mean your heart so different from the western tradition. For chinese and pending over one goal we can see the similarities of. Them brush paintings is a lot more strokes and the color. Identify this reality is really coloring in our mind the heart and if you prefer which is very typical 10 years statics are pender its not. A receiver of the information. Seen from nations into your own language. Vango painted was he filled in colors that he felt often in an abstract style he often discussed these concepts with his friend the french artist paul good. Who painted van gogh at work. After the 2 parted in disharmony bangle cut off part of his own left ear he was committed to a Psychiatric Institution where he painted a portrait of himself as jesus christ. And works with radiant color like the sunflowers he had painted earlier. And. Is sympathetic to his obsessed with the value of the session to an innocent gale on the land he was supposed to have moved to after all Southern France in any case because one of his role models besides me a daughter from one to chile had worked there and give you during that time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets. Im going to tell you what and iron and steel and market shelley developed a unique style that involved a technique called impossible stalls and if the application of paint in thick layers or strokes was this man it gives the work an added depth and structure and you can see how the paint really stands out with streaks and furrows on fast. 890. 00 when god got his 1st positive reviews by and he wrote to the author i bear of the year that he neglected to mention the influence of motor chair that is idle or you once had and you mind for a bit of money each headed home if i guess and. The critics were finally taking notice but a few months later Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide and so the legend was born. In january 18th 91. 00 vincents brother died of syphilis the entire vango estate including paintings drawings and letters passed to theos widow she would make vincent vanguard an international superstar. Johana vanguard bangor immediately took matters into her own hands based in paris she used the familys connections and contacted art critics and gallery owners. She soon became successful Vincent Van Goss letters were an important part of this process 2 years later you had published excerpts of these letters in dutch magazines and not catalogs she recognized the potential that lay in the combination of life and work. A Paris Gallery owner called valar showed some of the angles work seen 895 and there was a full exhibition in 1901 but it didnt attract much attention amongst collectors. That would change in 1905 in amsterdam steadily communion johana vanguard bungalow organized an exhibition of bangles complete works and it had a huge impact. At this diddle museum in frankfurt alexander i ling and his team have been studying how the angle was so successfully marketed particularly in germany. One can up once not starting in 1000 or 5 and there was a huge increase in the number of vanguard exhibitions in germany wants not from fernand between 1000 or 5 in 1914 before world war one there were dozens of exhibitions of featured his works with tile and weve seen that at about the same time and more and more german museums and private collectors were buying bengazi feeler daughter provides on loan. As a dumb act when i got to get so there was a big increase in germany but not in france in the netherlands except for the big exhibition in amsterdam aluminums adama but museums and collectors there were not buying as well as some not often go hi im just playing what you mostly enjoy my god the. Prices for vanguard were rising accordingly an invoice from a parasite gallery shows that in 1011 the state on museum paid a huge sum for the portrait of dr guest say. The money was paid in installments it cost a total of 20000. 00 francs it had changed hands 3 years before and the asking price then was only 2000 francs so thats a huge increase and must leave a want to go home prize. And the legend of van gaal also helped to push prices high on. German critique and novelist you lias my agree with did much to create that legend. Michael davis on a constant by a grey felt was a central figure in making van gough legend on the one hand an art critic of a collector dealer on the other hand a novelist a writer who saw the potential invent goughs work. But he wrote a history of the development of modern art in 1004 them with in which a large chapter was dedicated to van gough it was the cup it will give it much good about if you develop the whole thing into a biography in 1010 months and in 1021 finally into a novel. Done it would add to my ok for stylized van gough as the christ of modern art as he called it a savior because the romantic artist between genius and madness its which suddenly gained an enormous readership it was to be on vanzant i gave us van gough biography was one of the 1st bestsellers in art literature coffee line a day i asked one of the best sellers one slipped out would. You hand a van gogh died in 1925 and the queen with to her son vincent villain the items that she had not yet sold. Your vincent villains grandson villain serves as an advisor to the bengal foundation. So that. Theo was married to joy or to anna boehner and the young couple. And this little baby is my grandfather. And grandfather inherited from his parents a collection of 200 paintings by fits and 500 drawings and for instance letters to his brother and here we see in the sixtys in the sixtys we see here the living room of grandfather and i remember the element lost in the painting in the. Living room the element blossomed a beautiful one of the most beautiful paintings ever made. By fits it to the birth of his little nephew its not a family holds the rights that were licenses its the museum and my grandfather was the owner of this amazing incredible collection but in order to afford it it would be defied it in c. Parts after his death the a 3 children and his dream worse to keep the collection together and to share a collection read everybody for always so he brought your entire collection everything ever since and theo brought out of the house of the family and transferred it to a specially established and fingal front ation. So vang gulf sold the paintings to the dutch state in 1962 built the museum for the collection in 1973. Today the experts of the museum and the foundation aim to maintain scientific accuracy and infuse future generations to Vincent Van Gogh. The museum has 1700000 followers on instagram and about 2500000 likes on facebook bangkoks works have become part of the digital landscape. But the balancing act between scientific correctness and ever new legends is difficult. So i thought a revolver was ocean golf in paris in 2019130000 sold 4130000 this is off. To. The weapon was found in 1960 in a field near all their school was where van gogh he used to paint the Yorkshire House sold it as the weapon with which vanguard hes said to have killed himself. Forensic tests indicate. The began lay in the ground for 70 years and had the same caliber as the bullet that was found in vang gulf chest and the safety catch was off. But there is no scientific proof that links the weapon directly to fangirl the owner of the auction house says he never claimed that there was. The will of the overall let me start with we said before the auction that there was never any proof its not like were just saying this now after the sale so weve always been careful to leave it as a possibility is whats thats what makes a reputable auction also we only said thats the gun that he could have killed himself were very soon a victim. But before the yorks in the weapon was advertised as vang dos revolver that was misleading to say the least the auction house also touted the fact that the gun had been displayed at one museum and requested for exhibition by another. You know. In 2016 it was shown in amsterdam as part of the exhibition on the verge of insanity in the Shtetl Museum in frankfurt also wanted to borrow it for an exhibition. There was somebody known at the time when we had the expedition whos not quite like that and so and so he was asked what do you think a figure does and he said well as long as theres not a 2nd rusty gun coming from the same ground i mean it makes a very well chance if you have to look at it not why i believe and its when you its small as a sum so when you bomb and up it makes it very likely but as i said i mean we have to take the word from the it from from from from the landowner 960 that indeed he found it on his land and that somewhere else you kind of you dont have an idea and a proof of that he ever had a hand and. No. And although i would as a designer why they found a gun on fire when all there and its supposed to be the one that been used to kill himself how does he what did he really pull the trigger on is it possible that its a different weapon on one of them but suddenly this worthless object this rusty revolver became a part of the legend and so expressed interest in it but i dont want us to. Where does legend end and where it is for all would begin. This book was published in france in 2016 it shows facsimiles of a sketchbook that vango is said to have compiled in and allegedly found by a private individual but experts have serious doubts about its authenticity. But. This drawing a can scarcely be considered the work of god if he wasnt an excellent draftsman at that point. He created impressive color and light effects with pens and pencils and. This drawing has none of that very. Sloppy job as if to show that the artist had no discipline he. Was not like that at all. His work was always very neat. The book contains a sketch of a sunflower field for instance drawing style is very tricky to restrict and it was quite clear also from the colors i mean that this brownish tins which we know from for instance the colors of for instance drawings have. Wolf faded in more or less and this was 2 evenly colored in so it was didnt look like it was drawn with. With a black ink which was discarded to brown with simply browning. And dishonest art dealers can earn a lot of money selling vango forgeries in 1932 a burly an art broker auto vaca was convicted on charges of putting 30 of them on the market to one time as it has in some had authenticity reports from renowned vanguard experts so you can see a lot of people and a lot of money from van gough and. Even his commercialization inspires tate britain london the valhalla of british art history hes very much the hero of modern art and he says showing in a way british artists a new way to be an artist and an artist it doesnt have to be this is a respect to that can paint in their bedroom or their front room and things like that. In 1957 british artist Francis Bacon portrayed vanguard as a man with his head bowed on a path to nowhere. The paintings that thank god created during the final 2 years of his life have inspired generations his distinctive use of color has become part of the language of modern art. Norwegian artist edvard munch painted this portrait of Felix Auerbach in 1906 he portrayed him in a very rough very. I would say it actually mystic murder with stark red color not a very defined background stuff its also something that van gogh was of course and putting all his attention and focus on the character of our boss and its interesting that in his letter is not so much about this portrait but also other portraits he refers to that go. German artist and slewed big snow was also influenced by then go on as we see in this painting from 1908 artists turn vang doss artistic power into their program of artistic self dramatization max beckmann as vincent. And here in this business from one going to school as they we have been gossip portraits and next pick my odds on and i think its a great combination because you can see how similar the self portraits are. But beckman heard about the big exhibition in amsterdam in 1005. And then grew beards so they would look like them got in the here close it if you know me from got on so i. Can send belvin can you have a van gough artisans overcome their benegal phrases relatively quickly because they dont want to be seen a successor snatched convoy or not and so at some point then got receipts further and further into the background than one caught in the light and in him to a point but but his works open their minds to color to style to the application of color and some top. And that helps them find their own style and gives them the courage to find their own style and want to move to mine i have mentioned its a fantasy. So is it this courage that transcends the legend is it his weaknesses or his strengths dr gushee a prescribed painting for bangle as therapy and during his last 70 days in over there school was he painted another 80 pictures in a bid to save himself. And maybe thats why all these people are still searching for the real vincent. Because in him they may succeed in finding themselves. Greens. Pottery honeycomb for. 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