that was for more than get this 20 minutes for a 1000000 euro 501-001-0000 extension 0 pounds i find out all right that does it for me thank you so much for watching this if you don't use lie for believe the documentary vincent van gogh superstar is up next each and for that and i will see you again tomorrow. more customers from nigeria you know that's what nollywood stands. authentic. successful beyond belief. 7 would start august 7th t w. the

damage to the house because you are feeling like there is no doubt that i love on that's all i love many paglu to still search areas i'm going bong all morning long so i don't know why but is everybody. cold bongo is my favorite so i want to visit his place i want to see where he lives and we're here and. they search for him in the fields of france. and exhibitions worldwide vincent has a huge digital image. some flowers. to actually say it's something that every artist received cancellation it's here it's. a life. 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 this legend grow to become an international phenomenon. oh there was a village northwest of paris bangle 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 sins presides over the institute vanguard in arvada 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 you know here's a statuette of a person holding a guitar. every day people bring flowers. jewish people play stones on the grave. and here you can see ashes. 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 old bears of a small hotel with angola lived and worked you know where school was in 1905 dominic. a belgian entrepreneur bought it and founded the institute van gogh to preserve the artist's memory. he leased out the bar where bengal once sat it's now

a restaurant. vango his attic room is where he died in july 18th 90. you don't get to go here i have 2 different types of visitors. there are the funk 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 so. and then the rest only know the hollywood 5 ga so they're not the man who cut off one of his ears associated with prostitutes drank a lot and killed himself you proceed to really let it go it was you see. this

is the so are painted in 1908 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. 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 or for 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. val to vend a veiny scientific advisor at the vango institute and an internationally recognized

expert on the life and work of the artist. vanderveen 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. bank 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 golly don't you felt the brothers intellectual environment was shaped by those books their lives were very very middle class and of. the books that they own it were beautifully made with gilt edges and leather covers. and so they were not poor and unfair to katie 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 beliefs. with a loaded question of course agenda not so long he was always talking about making money. and you have to remember that he was a dutch calvinist you're someone who grew up the letter edition 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. 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 created paintings because he believed that they had economic value. like an art dealer. only then it was not a case of art for art's sake if you know when i speak on this topic at conferences a lot of people reject this view. it's like they have this image of a selfless. i

believe that vincent entail created a company incorporates the funk often funk corporation so to speak you know. 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. 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 business is booming. and this is the village of labor. in the south of france. a bangle multi-media display is located in an old line stone quarry.

the artist's life as expressed in his paintings. the images are choreographed 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 vulgar and saw his fragility and vulnerability as qualities so many people find that appealing because those are very attractive human characteristics. everyone seems to have their own personal vincent but one was vanga who 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 fundamental i find his paintings and drawings absolutely fascinating in my view and you got i'm less interested in the myths that have grown up around other guns and newton but don't tell me how. you can evaluate his work properly if you focus too much on his personal life as if i kept on with. i think i've retained increased my fascination for the original opulent percent of us and that's the one i had not just i got from a dog nala. it is in the you know in the 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 clogs it's like a big shapeless forms of the and 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 under sized one of the non looked down if you want to figure may seem modern to us today but at the time and goss contemporaries complained that it got the proportions all wrong the imma be done in cookies yet and one of the norms in the history and i was in contrast isn't enough to compare that work from 885 to this one to 895 you can see that his style is already changing and not as a vague fundies are moving from a policy of peasant figures to portraits and 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. then got him to pics dr gushee in a typical melancholic pose like do or used for his famous engraving it's but he's

not referencing do a lot of work there quite admired portrait by the gender local shows for quite a tussle in a sane asylum than hostile act as are in a melancholic with an atmosphere of genius and madness in the background and one tied. 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 newnan and in 911 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 gulfs 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 museums experts see him. i think the more we know about the horse about his about his slice 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 materials and his state league so the painting was freely 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 a letter for hawk was very methodical in his way of working and that's also confirmed by all the research that we've done into his techniques and his materials he was really planning his pictures and his drawings and he was often calculating even.