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 techniques sold a painting was really. 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 you 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 steak nukes and his materials he was really planning his pictures 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. really choosing that 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 a as a subject it's of 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 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 gaal's 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 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. but he knew that society always changes with you its arms started to disappear he felt it and he knew well that there was more and more and just realisation of what is it. an omelette and when he asked people to pose for him he didn't want to come across as a wealthy artist mind watch and watch and he said he's 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 buy one get an abaya time it in court time when i had signed the don't flush saying tot he often gave away his clothes or went around looking shabby one hot dog an untidy put he believed that this gave him credibility and a sense of self-sacrifice that was inspired by jesus christ steps off in of course

then go had some very wealthy relatives who were voted in with financial support if my we don't want us to it's not his apparent poverty gave them street cred high as we say today runs on hard to do street credibility you might do this lot when 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 886 of 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 tom de. vang 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. it is a very golf 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 bangle paintings borrowed from world class collections. we are asked swiss art historian beach a koori why bengal's works still so relevant today van gogh is dance into something it was very interesting and important for him to move away from so long art and conventional compositions he wants to. build a model he wanted to create art that had an immediate visual impact on him to show and by doing that he anticipated trends that became common in the 20th century and into a list 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 don't mention all styles and that was also he element conservation. at that time bangor was inspired by japanese wood block prints which were popular among many of his contemporaries he suddenly start a very big collection of $6.60 prints and we know why did that because the relationship with the 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 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 prince you do not have to focus on watching the openings prince but the magic 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 vanguard'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 was.

i think. a generation or artists 1st break away from the western tradition hues deeply influenced by japanese prints and the japanese princess also associates of his trying to spend things so that means you look at a subject on the way painted as not exactly a subject. but is a separate subject in your mind than your heart so you remember right is it your restructure of tbilisi your mind i mean your heart so that's a big difference from the western tradition.

of one goal we can see the similarities. into the brush paintings it's a lot of strokes under the collar it's not a dreamy done to 5 history oddity is really coloring in our mind the heart of the prefer which is very typical 10 years statics i pender it's not some polly a receiver of the information that test of seeing from nations into your own language . van gogh 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 gauguin who painted van gogh work. after the 2 parted in disharmony bangkok 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. i. was. super today he was obsessed with the colors of the session to some gale on the moon and he was supposed to have moved to southern france in any case because one of his role models besides me a daughter from one to chile had worked there give us here in that time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets. i'm going to tell you what and guns iron and steel and market shelly developed

a unique style that involved a technique called impossible stalls and if the application of paint in thick layers or strokes was 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 on fast. $890.00 and god then god got his 1st positive art reviewers by and he wrote to the author i bear of the year that he neglected to mention the influence of motor cheli is i don't have it or you want to have done you mind for a bit of money challenge it hums if i guess and 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 $891.00 vincent's brother died of syphilis the entire vango state including paintings drawings and letters passed to theo's 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 family's 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 haven't published except a paris gallery owner called valar showed some of angle's works in 1905 and there was a full exhibition in 1901 but it didn't attract much attention amongst collectors. and that would change in $905.00 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. 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 we've seen that at about the same time more and more german museums and private collectors were buying bengazi feeler daughter provides on loan. from as a dumb act when our national guard to get so there was a big increase in germany but not in france and the netherlands except for the big exhibition in amsterdam in the one arm saddam all but museums and collectors there were not buying as well as some not often got i'm just playing what he was into my gonna. prices for vanguard were rising accordingly

an invoice from a parasite gallery shows that in $1000.00 a level in the state all museums paid a huge sum for the portrait of dr gushee again and was in the money was paid in installments because to total of 20000 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 window seat on price and the legend of bengal also helped to push prices higher. german art critic and novelist you lears meyer griffin.