i had it i. had it. i was because of the coronavirus this year's gathering is being limited strictly limited to just 10000 people that's a tiny fraction of the more than 2000000 we usually travels around the world to attend what's considered islam's most important. our brian thomas of the entire team thanks so much for being. on neil and i'm good welcome to the 2nd season on the defense of. the planet on the brink of disaster we did a long death interview experts about one question how to change the long of

a sense. that it was because of. that the citizens have had no luck. i love many pang to. search i'm going home alone no mommy said john no one but is every upon the. whole bongo is my favorite so i want to visit his place i want to see where he leaves and where here point. they search for him in the fields of france. and exhibitions worldwide vincent has a huge digital image. some plans for him. it's

a bit sad that every artist shut down i should say i. am. vincent van gough lives alone 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 school was a village northwest of paris then go came here in may 18th 19th 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 since presides over the

institute vanguard innovate a village which artists say zara and monet also visited. today it's a man 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 you know 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 in their front garden it keep it all didn't it don't go. this is the old bears of a small hotel where frank goff lived and worked in all their small was in 1905

dominique shelley on sons of 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 8090. do get to go he i have 2 different types of visitors. there are the funk rock 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. 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

master tubes drank a lot and killed himself on concrete it was to do a lot of corners 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 then got 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 volleys i will work it out for so many myths and misunderstandings have grown up around found god that you can hardly see the historical reality that's another story.

vulture vanda 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 this correspondence obscures the artist's image including for example his pragmatism. frank 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 leopard polytone as well the brothers intellectual environment was shaped by those books their lives were a very very middle class set of. the books at their own 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 could really community. 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 belief. or the loaded question kristie and an awesome god he was always talking about making money. and you have to remember that he was

a calvinist you're someone who grew up that had tradition in which social function plays a major role. it early on what you don't see here so that was his motivation artists have to be. really compensated for their work. he paid a lot of attention to the business side of things. they speak it's hard to get people to understand that because he's usually for trade as an unselfish hero who sacrificed himself for his art. they don't but he 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 art's sake if you know when i speak on this topic at conferences also a lot of people reject this beautiful because you know it's like they have this sacred image of a selfless act. you didn't have

a small device on the. margin book who did it you just saw it i believe that vincent and tail found god created a company incorporates the funk often funk corporation so to speak. i know of no other company that was founded in 880 and is still so successful today. it's very profitable and a lot of people share and those profits are on. 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 of cory. graft to a special soundtrack. he 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 rigidity and vulnerability as qualities so many people find that appealing those are very attractive human characteristics as humans. everyone seems to have their own personal vincent but one was vying really like

it's time to check the facts to do that we've come to the shtetl museum in frankfurt a mine whose fuss and yet. i find his paintings and drawings absolutely fascinating but i'm less interested in the myths that have grown up around of the gun salute and they don't tell me how. 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 it is a miss and if not so when i had noticed i got. news in the year and 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 her hands and her clogs it's like

a big shapeless forms it's also how you can see that it was difficult for them to draw the human figure. you learn to draw from textbooks. and i think it's worth noting that he had no proper academic training in art and themselves as high as the one of the non looked the more down if you will the figure may seem modern to us today but at the time and goss contemporaries complained that he got the proportions all wrong the ima be done in could it be one of the nuns in the here someone close in contrast isn't compare that work from 885 to this one to 895 you can see that his style is already changing gossage and that was a vague fundies 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 the angle he was reacting to changes in the art market in these portraits he includes themes of self perception like something you might see these days on instagram. by gosh there dr gushee then got him

to pics dr gushee in a typical melancholic pose like do the used for his famous engraving it's but he's not referencing do a lot of work they're quite admired and i'm a whore tricked by the gender that shows talk quite a tussle in a sane asylum taso in the house high as all in a melancholic cold with an atmosphere of genius and madness in the background in time when todd. the shtetl was the 1st public museum in germany to buy works by vanguard. 190818 years after the artist's death it acquired farmhouse in noonan 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 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 vang golfs work and he succeeds in getting closer to him through drawings and prints. the van gough museum in amsterdam 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 think the more we know about the horse about his or about his life about his work the more you realize that are there 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 materials and his technique 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 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 a 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 nukes and his

materials he was really planning his pictures and his drawing 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 deadly 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 a as a subject it's course not he's of course not the 1st one but it but he's now his

paintings are the most famous. in art history. and it's simply not true that vang 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 noonan 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. vang gulfs early works often portrayed the lives of farmers. as. this is the potato eaters from 1905 his 1st large work in oil. vincent road to theo that

these paintings 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 wanted spots 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 and just realisation 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 what and he said he'd like these people and wanted to live a life that was similar to that of a farmer laborers and coal miners is a myth and by one button are bought on that in court and when i find the tide on flushing tot he often gave away his clothes or went around looking shabby when hot

dogs and i'm tired of it he believed that this gave him credibility and and a sense of self-sacrifice that was inspired by jesus christ steps and of course then god had some very wealthy relatives who were vida down with financial support might be don't want us to it's not his apparent poverty gave them street cred highs we say today on zadan hard to do street credibility oh my jesus wat someone lets on . in fact his brother theo enabled him to enjoy a good standard of living he regularly sent him a lot of money every $2.00 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.

bangle changed his style again to capture the light of paris he placed thin layers of paint on top of each other doll 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. it was a very golf spend 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 artist's 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 goss works are still so relevant today vanguard is 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 that an intentional introvert and by doing that he anticipated trends that became common in the 20th century. and they still see those trends today in advertising and the internet

savvy straight to the message. that he 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 so she used it to don't mention style and that was also he element conservation. at that time vango 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 saw that he should have something on the side kind of adil a ship 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 devaney's prints you do not have to focus on much on the up and use prince but the metric word is primitivism to certain extent and being 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 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 are artists 1st break away from the western tradition deeply influenced by japanese prints and the japanese prints are also associate to restrain spending so that means you look at the subject in a way painted as not exactly a subject. but is a separate subject to your mind on your heart so you remember rise it your restructure of tbilisi your mind i mean your heart so there's a big difference from the western tradition.

for 10 years and pending over one goal we can see the similarities train you see them brush paintings it's a lot of strokes under the collar as not had really identified this reality is really a color in our mind the heart of it prefer which is very typical 10 years statics . it's not simply a receiver of the information that chance of seeing from nations into your own 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 good. he painted van gogh at work.

after the 2 parted in disharmony bangor 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. was. super today he was obsessed with the colors yellow value of the sesame when this and owned 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 give you feeling that time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets in mild.

i'm going to tell you what and guns iron and steel and shelly developed a unique style that involved a technique called impossible stalls and if the application of paint in thick layers or strokes does 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 and god then 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 cheli is idle or you once have done you mind for a bit of money charity homes if i guess intervene. the critics were finally taking notice but a few months later vincent van gogh committed suicide and so the legend was born. in january and $891.00 vincent brother died of syphilis the entire gang gone the

state including paintings drawings and letters passed to theo's widow she would make vincent vanguard an international superstar. your honner vanguard bangor 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 gough letters were an important part of this process 2 years later you had a published excerpts of these letters in dutch magazines and not catalogues she recognised the potential that lay in the combination of life and work. a paris gallery owner called valar showed some of us 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 museum in frankfurt alexander eileen 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 for 92 in 1000 or 5 in 1914 for world war one there were dozens of exhibitions of featured his works with tile and we've seen that at about the same time more and more german museums and private collectors were buying bengazi the daughter pre-bought museum plotted from dakar from as a dumb act on our national guard to it so there was

a big increase in germany but not in france and the netherlands except for the big exhibition in amsterdam aluminums the dhamma but museums and collectors there were not buying as well as some not often got i'm just playing what he was into my garnish. 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 gushee. 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 that's a huge increase and must leave a home price. and the legenda vango also helped to push prices higher than. german pretty cans novelist you

list my agree did much to create that legend. my cave is one a constant maya grey felt was a central figure in making vitacost legend on the one hand and aren't pretty at a collector or a dealer on the other hand a novelist or writer who saw the potential invent gough's work. eat his book he wrote a history of the development of modern art 1904 in which a large chapter was dedicated to van gough and the cup it looked a bit much but about as he developed the whole thing into a biography in 1010 months and in 1021 finally into a novel. and it went to my ok for stylized vanguard as the christ of modern art as he called it a savior because the romantic artist between genius and madness it's which suddenly gained an enormous readership it was to be on bonds and 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 winslet and i to work.

you had the vanguard died in 1925 and the queen to her son vincent villain the items that she had not yet sold. your vincent villain's grandson villain serves as an advisor to the bangle foundation. so that you know right theo was married to you where you end up going or and the young couple. 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 for instance to the birth of his little nephew it's not a family or holds the rights that were licenses it's the museum my grandfather was the owner of this amazing incredible collection but in order to avoid it it would be divided into 3 parts after his death the a 3 children and his dream was to keep the collection together and to share a collection with everybody for always so he brought your entire collection everything ever touched by vincent or theo but out of the hands of the family and transferred it to a specially established for instance from go front ation. so vango 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. thong song a revolver was ocean golf in paris in 201-913-0000 sold 413-0000 this is not all true because. 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 is 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 gulfs 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. all of you have always obvious i mean we said before the auction that there was never any proof 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 because of what sets what makes a reputable horse if we only said that's the gun that he could have killed himself . but before the yorkshire in the weapon was

advertised as vang goss 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 high another. in 2016 that was shown in amsterdam as part of the exhibition on the verge of insanity. deal or museum in frankfurt also wanted to borrow it for an exhibition. but was somebody known at the time when we had the expedition who sent not quite like that is so and so he was asked what do you think a 5th of it is and he said well as long as there's not a 2nd rusty gun coming from the same ground and needed makes a very well chance of it and you have to look at it that why i believe and it's when it's smaller to some so when you bomb and up it makes it very likely but as this i mean we have to take the word from we have from from from from the landowner 960 that indeed he found it on his mind and not somewhere else you can't you don't have an idea and a proof of that he ever had it in his hand and. no. i'm

fed and although i would as a diesel boy they found a gun on fire going over there and it's supposed to be the one that used to kill himself. why 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 a part of the legend and so we expressed interest in it but thought i'm going to. 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 if you see more of this drawing can scarcely be considered the work of god if

he was 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 start is very critter istic and it was quite clear also from the collars i mean that this brownish tins which we know from for instance of for instance drawings have. all faded in more or less and this was to evenly colors 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 bird broker auto vaca was convicted on charges of putting 30 of them on the market divan tires of his e 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 he and. even his commercialisation inspires tate britain london the valhalla of british art history he's very much the hero of modern out and he says showing in a way british artists a new way to be an artist and an artist it doesn't have to be this is a respectable they 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 move painted this portrait of felix auerbach in 1906. portrait him in a very rough very. damp i would say expressionistic medder with stark red color not a very defined background 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 other 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 is vincent. here and there's buttons from one coffin to who's there we have ben gosselin portrait and next big moment i think it's a great combination because you can see how similar the self portraits are. beckman heard about the big exhibition in amsterdam in 1005 and then grew a beard so that he would look like i am god here because if you know me from my god i'm so i then. you can send govind and you have a van gough artisans overcome they're going to offer is this relatively quickly because they don't want to be seen as successors soft convoy or not if you call now and so at some point then got receipts further and further into the background than

one got in the right and he wanted 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 went in mood after the hard man i mentioned it's a phantom. so is it this courage that transcends the legend is it his weaknesses all his strengths dr gushee a prescribed painting for vanguard 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 that's why all these people are still searching for the real vincent. because in him they may succeed in finding themselves.

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