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that a lot of them did not because of the only time to answer is no amount of time i love . i love many paying to do searches on google getting old morning. but as everybody knows hold my so i want to visit his place i want to see where he leaves and. they search for him in the fields of france. and at exhibitions worldwide vincent has a huge digital image. some flams. i like

to say that every artist to see i. am. vincent van gough lives on especially in people's 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 saw was a village northwest of paris the bangle came here in may 8090 and though 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 since 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 and asian people bring oranges and lemons. i want to become a here's 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. the cremated remains of artists who wanted to be laid to rest their fun got it keep it on video it don't go. this is the all bears of a small hotel where van gough lived and worked you know where school was in 1905

dominique ensign's a belgian entrepreneur bought it and founded the institute van gogh to preserve the artist's memory. he leased out the bar where van gogh once sat it's now a restaurant. vango his attic room is where he died in july 890. i have 2 different types of visitors. there are the funky junkies who know everything about him and his paintings he's like a hero to them. that's about 10 to 15 percent of them. another 10 to 15 percent have read his letters and focus on. and then the rest only know the hollywood foreign guard so they're not the man who cut off one of his ears

associated with prostitutes drank a lot and killed himself it was did you really know because you see. this is the so painted in 1908 lange 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. possessed enormous creative energy but was he driven by his so-called madness by his genius. on the next question on the longer you've heard the saying you can't see the forest for the trees of all the values of one worker for so many myths and misunderstandings have grown up around found god that you can hardly see the historical reality that's another story can do

a new question libya val to vend a vein is scientific advisor at the vango institute and an internationally recognized expert on the life and work of the artist. vandeven wrote his doctoral thesis on bangles literary role models and has spent years studying his correspondence. he also transcribed the artist's letters for the van gogh museum in amsterdam vandeven says that a selective reading of these correspondence obscures the artist's image including for example his pragmatism. banco was an odd dealer before he became an artist. vincent and his brother theo worked for some of the top 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 leper polytone as well the brothers intellectual environment was shaped by those books their lives were very very middle class so very close the books as they own it were beautifully made with gilt edges and leather covers. and so they were not before and an educated as is so often claimed all. on the contrary they were very cultured and sophisticated people who really free an idea. in 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. or the load of professional groups he joined us on he was always talking about making money. and you have to remember that he was

a calvinist you're someone who grew up in that tradition in which social function plays a major role. really you don't see here so that was his motivation artists have to be. really compensated for their work i do keep up he paid a lot of attention to the business side of things. they speak it's hard to get people to understand that because it is usually for trade as an unselfish hero who sacrificed himself for his art it was important. if you don't let your creative paintings because he believed that they had economic value. like an art dealer this is only on the back then it was not a case of art for art's sake if you most when i speak on this topic at conferences also a lot of people reject this view with you because you're it's like they have this image of a selfless. you didn't have

a small device on the. margin book who dated you just saw it i believe that vincent entail found god created a company incorporate the funk often corporation so to speak. i know of no other company that was founded in 880 s. and is still so successful today. it's very profitable and a lot of people share and those profits are all up which is. the 1st years of the corporation went badly and during their lifetime vincent and theo didn't make a lot of money from it but today the bangle business is booming. this is the village of les bode a pulse in the south of france. a bangle multimedia display is located in an old

line stone quarry. the artist's life as expressed in his paintings. the images on cory. graft to a special soundtrack. left all his mistakes behind and that makes him infinitely charming. and despite those mistakes and his personal problems he's now an enormously successful one of the world's most famous painters normal. was absolutely fearless and saw his for gelati 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 one was van gogh who really like

it's time to check the facts to do that we've come to the shtetl museum in frankfurt a mine which for us and yet. i find his paintings and drawings absolutely fascinating but i'm less interested in the myths that have grown up around the guns and. you can't evaluate his work properly if you focus too much on his personal life is a fact. i think i've retained and increased my fascination for the original always up is a miss and if i see not so one i've got a dog in oslo. it is in the you know in a cutoff of this work shows a woman who is planting potatoes but we don't see her face the focus is on her bulky limbs current hands and her cogs and then it's like

a big shapeless forms and also how you can see that it was difficult for vanguard to draw the human figure. he learned to draw from textbooks. and i think it's worth noting that he had no proper academic training in art and even shelves in one of the norm he looked a little more down if you will the figure may seem modern to us today but at the time when goss contemporaries complained that he got the proportions all wrong the ima be done in could it going on as in the he was in contrast his and compare that work from 885 to this one to 895 you can see that his style is already changing and not as a victim and he's a movie from one of the present figures to portraits 1000000 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. but. then got him to

pics dr gushee in a typical melancholic pose like do or used for his famous engraving. but he's not referencing do a lot of work they're quite admired portrait by the gender that shows sort of quite a task in a sane asylum than hostile act as are in a melancholic with an atmosphere of genius and madness in the background and untied . the shtetl was the 1st public museum in germany to buy works by the angola. in 190818 years after the artist's death it acquired farmhouse in newnan and in 911 the portrait of dr gushee 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 1990 someone from japan paid $82000000.00 for the painting it's not

known who owns it now. alexander island takes a sober approach to his study of blank office work and he succeeds in getting closer to him through drawings and prints. the van gough museum in answer to dam which contains the world's largest collection of the artist's 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 museum's experts see him. i i. 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 don't know and there's new questions coming up so in the case of the sunflowers. there was an extensive research project. which really focused very much on his material and his stake me so the painting was really and looked at in depth with all these different techniques in the conservation studio. we've often found under drawings we even have found under drawing on 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 was very methodical in his way of working and that's also confirmed by all the research that we've done into his stick nick 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 some flowers as a company logo. this really choosing the subject as something that he can make his own and then later on he really says i've chosen the sunflowers and i've really been the 1st one to take the sunflower as the as it is a subject it's course not he's of course not the 1st one but that he's now his

paintings are the most famous women in art history. and it's simply not true that vanguard did not sell a single painting during his lifetime. he was born and raised in the brabant region in the netherlands. bangle painted this picture of the church in newton in 1904 his father was 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. as. 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 is that of the educated middle class. was fascinated by far more. but he knew that society was changing us with you its arms started to disappear and he knew well that there was more and more industrialization of what is it. an arm and what and when he asked people to pose for him he didn't want to come across as a wealthy artist on board and want and he said he'd like least people and wanted to live a life that was similar to that of farm laborers and coal miners is a myth and by one button are bought on the 10 core law by a time when i had signed the clyde on fresh saying tot he often gave away his clothes or went around looking shabby when hot dogs and i'm tired he believed that

this gave him credibility and a sense of self-sacrifice that was inspired by jesus christ steps off gaba and of course then god had some very wealthy relatives hypervisor done with financial support might be don't want us to it's not his apparent poverty gave them street cred high as we say today hard to street credibility you might do this lot 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 an art dealer. in 1886 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 impressionists at the paint supply shop owned by dealer pair tom de.

bangor 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 brother's apartment theo was never able to sell this piece there was too much competition from the impressionists. are improvised southern france. getting bankole spend 15 months here painting he's 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 artist's work and exploring the impact that it has on contemporary art the foundation often displays vanguard paintings borrowed from world class collections . we are asked swiss art historian beach a koori why vanguard's works are still so relevant today longo he says dance into sound 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 that name to show and by doing that he anticipated trends that became common in the 20th century and into little see those

trends today in advertising and on the internet sang straight to the message. that help wanted to create artistic tension. 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 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 c.e.o. 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 our 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 japanese prince but the magic word is primitivism to a certain extent and been decorative so it had to be flat flat means that there's 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 van gaal's 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 he is deeply influenced by japanese prints and the japanese princess also associates and is trying to spend things so that means you look at the subject and the way it painted it's not exactly the subject of your book but is a separate subject to your mind and your heart so you remember right is it you are restructuring to boosie your mind i mean your heart so that's a big difference from the western tradition.

for chinese pending of one goal we can see the similarities you say brush paintings it's a lot of strokes and the color as now i've had really good 5 years riyadh it is really that color in our mind the heart and if you prefer which is very typical 10 years so i stabbed. a receiver off of the information that chest of scene from nations into your language. painted was he felt in colors that he felt often in an abstract style he often discussed these concepts with his friend the french artist paul gold. he painted bangle 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. in. the supertanker he was obsessed with the colors yellow says and when these again on the moment he was supposed to have moved to other southern france in any case because one of his role models besides me a daughter from one to chile had worked there give you feeling the time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets.

and want to tell you what guns iron and steel and the market surely developed a unique style that involved a technique called impossible stalls and the application of paint in quick layers or strokes just this month it gives the work an added depth and structure and you can see how the paint really stands out with streaks and furrows. and 890 when god got his 1st positive art review by him and he wrote to the author i bear on that he neglected to mention the influence of money to charity is i don't have it or you don't you mind for a bit of money chill you do have you forgotten soviet. the critics were finally taking notice but a few months later vincent van gogh committed suicide and so the legend was born. in january $8091.00 vincent's brother died of syphilis the entire vango estate

including paintings drawings and letters passed to theo's widow she would make vincent vanguard an international superstar. your honner vanguard bangar immediately took matters into her own hands based in paris she used the family's connections and contacted art critics and gallery owners. she soon became successful vincent van dos letters were an important part of this process 2 years later you had a published excerpts of these letters in dutch magazines and at catalogues she recognized the potential that lay in the combination of life and work. of paris gallery owner called valar showed some of the bank office work seen 895 and there was a full exhibition in 1901 but it didn't attract much attention amongst collectors.

that would change in 1905 in amsterdam steadily community in your honner vanguard bungalow organized an exhibition of vang goss complete works and it had a huge impact. at the shtetl museum in frankfurt alexander island and his team have been studying how the angle was so successfully marketed particularly in germany. up once not starting in 1000 or 5 on 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 that featured his works. and we've seen that at about the same time times and more and more german museums and private collectors were buying bengazi the daughter please don't move the inputs if i got a call from i was 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 and when i'm saddam i was museums and collectors there were not buying as well as some not often got i'm just plain want to move the engine my garnish. prices for vanguard were rising accordingly an invoice from a parasite gallery shows that in 1011 the steadily museum paid a huge sum for the portrait of dr guess a good it was in 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 that's a huge increase and must say you were going to see it on price. and the legend of van gogh also helped to push prices high on. german critique and novelist usually as maya great did much to create that legend.

michael davis on a constant maya gray felt was a central figure in making van gough legend of dying on the one hand and art pretty at a collector dealer on the other hand a novelist or writer who saw the potential invent gough's work. eat he wrote a history of the development of modern art in 1004 in which a large chapter was dedicated to van gough who was a cop it'll give it much good about as he developed the whole thing into a biography in 1010 months and in 1901 finally into a novel and lies about yon done it to my grave for stylized vanguard as the christ of modern art as he called it a savior of the romantic artist between genius and madness it's which suddenly gained an enormous readership it was under bonds and i gave as van gough biography was one of the 1st bestsellers in art literature coffee line a day i asked one of the best sellers one splitter artwork.

you hanna of and go honda died in 1925 and the queen to her son vincent villain the items that she had not yet sold. your vincent villains grandson villain serves as an advisor to the bank all foundation. so that you're all right theo was married to join our 2 and a boner and the young couple got a son 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 sixty's in the sixty's we see here the living room of grandfather and i remember the element blossom hanging in the. living

room the element blossomed a beautiful one of the most beautiful paintings ever made dedicated by fencing to the birth of his little nephew it's not a family or holds the rights that were licenses it's the museum and my grandfather was the owner of this amazing incredible collection but in order to afford to it it would be defied it in c. parts after he's dead theatre 3 children and his dream worse to keep the collection together and to share the collection with everybody for always so he brought the entire collection everything effort by fence and theo brought out of the hands of the family and transferred it to a specially established fence and franco front ation. so bankole sold the paintings to the dutch state in 1962 it 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 for vincent van gar. the museum has 1700000 followers on instagram and about 2500000 likes on facebook bangkok's works have become part of the digital landscape. but the balancing act between scientific correctness and ever new legends is difficult. so i saw a revolver was opened off in paris in 201-913-0000 sold 413-0000 that is a thought. experiment. the weapon was found in 1960 in a field near all their school was where vanguard he used to paint the yorkshire

house sold it as the weapon with which vanguard he's said to have killed himself. forensic tests indicate that the gun lay in the ground for 70 years and had the same caliber as the bullet that was found in vang gox chest and the safety catch was off. but there is no scientific proof that links the weapon directly to vanguard. the owner of the auction house says he never claimed that there was. a will of the overall we're going to start with we said before the auction that there is never any proof that it's not like we're just saying this now after the sale so we've always been careful to leave it as a possibility once that's what makes a reputable auction also we only said that's the guy that he quote has killed himself well over soon you know. but before the yorks in the weapon

was advertised as vang gulfs revolver that was. misleading to say the least the auction house also tell to the fact that the gun had been displayed at one museum and requested for exhibition by another. in 2016 that was shown in amsterdam as part of the exhibition on the verge of insanity . need a museum in frankfurt also wanted to borrow it for an exhibition. there was somebody in a time when we had the expedition who's not quite like that is so and so he was asked what do you think of think of this and he said well as long as there's not a 2nd rusty gun coming from the same ground i mean it makes a very well chance you have to look at it that way i believe and it when it's small is the sum so when you find it up it makes it very likely but as i said i mean we have to take the word from be it from from from from the landowner 960 that indeed he found it on his mind in that somewhere else you kind of you don't have an

a prove of that he ever had a hand and. no. fed at all they are good as a desert why they found a gun on fire then or there and it's supposed to be the one that venkat used to kill himself how does he what did he really pull the trigger is it possible that it's a different weapon on one of them but suddenly this worthless object this rusty revolver became part of the legend and so we expressed interest in it but i don't want us to intercede. where does legend end and where does for all would begin. this book was published in france in 2016 it shows facsimiles of a sketchbook that bangle is said to have compiled in and allegedly found by a private individual but experts have serious doubts about its authenticity. but could hear more of this drawing can scarcely be considered the work of god if

he was an excellent draftsman at that point as a career. he created impressive color and light effects with pens and pencils and. this drawing has none of that right. 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 start is very risky and it was quite clear also from the colors in me that this brownish tins which we know from for instance for instance drawings have. all faded in more or less and this was to evenly colored in so it was didn't look like it was drawn with. with a black ink which was discovered to brown with simply browning. dishonest

art dealers can earn a lot of money selling vango forgeries in 1932 a burly in art broker auto vaca was convicted on charges of putting 30 of them on the market to one timers of his use on head 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 he's very much the hero of modern art and he says shying away british artists a new way to be an artist and an artist it doesn't have to be this the same spectrum that can paint in their beds you their front room and things like that. in 1957 british artist francis bacon put trade 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 he's distinctive use of color has become part of the language of modern art. norwegian artist. painted this portrait of felix auerbach in 19 of his 6. portraits him in a very very. i would say action mystic medder with this stark red color not a very defined backgrounds that's also something that was of course and putting all his attention and focus on the character of our boss and it's interesting that in his letter is not so much about this portrait but also out of portraits he refers to that go. german artist. q should know was also

influenced by van gogh 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. here in this business from the who's there we have ben gossip portrait and the next big moment i think it's a great combination because you can see how similar the self portraits are. but beckman heard about the big exhibition in amsterdam in 1000 or 5 and then grew a beard so they would look like vanguard in the heat cause if you know me from going on so i. can send govind yes of on cough artisans overcome their very offices relatively quickly because they don't want to be seen as successors stuffed convoy or not and so at some point then got receipts further and further into the background than one

got him about and then he pointed but his works opening lines 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 want in mood man i mentioned it's offended. so isn't this courage that transcends the legend is it his weaknesses or his strengths dr gushee a prescribed painting for vanguard as therapy and during his last 70 days you know vs who was he painted another 80 pictures in a bid to save himself. and maybe that's why all these people are still searching for the real vincent. because

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