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. 6. 100 pounds because it is. time to those who have no luck on rights i love many paying 2 kids to search. on going bongo morning. st john. but as a brief on the loss of bon cole bongo is my favorite 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 slams. accent

is a bit sad that every artist to see 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. o.b.l. saw was a village northwest of paris vandal 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 bangle in over 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. even if every day people bring flowers. jewish people place stones on the grave. and here you can see ashes. the committed remains of artists who wanted to be laid to rest in their front garden we keep it all going to go on god. this is the all bearish room a small hotel where van gough lived and worked in all their small was in 1905

dominic shelley and since a belgian entrepreneur bought it and founded the institute vanguard to preserve the artist's memory. he leased out the bar where vanguard once sat it's now a restaurant. vango his attic room is where he died in july 8090. and you do get legally i have 2 different types of visitors. there are the fun god 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 then the rest only know the hollywood foreign god so they're not the man who cut off one of his ears associated with prostitutes

drank a lot and killed himself oh no it was to do a lot of good to see you. this is the so painted in 1888 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. next question on the longer you've heard the saying you can't see the forest for the trees. for so many myths and misunderstandings have grown up around found. that you can hardly see the historical reality that's another story if you do

a new question to. 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 bangle 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. banco 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 will find clothes he spoke several languages and read books favored by the dutch educated elite lepard ali don't you felt the brothers intellectual environment was shaped by those books their lives were very very middle class so now. the books at their own were beautifully made with gilt edges and leather covers. and so they were not for and under-educated as is so often claimed all. on the contrary they were very cultured and sophisticated people who really. 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 they don't approve of us from groups and in the last longer he was always talking about making money. and you have to remember that he was

a calvinist you're someone who grew up to have tradition in which social function plays a major role. really 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 as. 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 one view. created paintings because he believed that they had economic value. like an art dealer says 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 view as you know it's like they have this image of a selfless kind. of

a small little song. they did you just saw it i believe that vincent entail found god created a company incorporated a funk often funk 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 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 bank business is booming. this is the village of les bode a pulse in the south of france. of the angle 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. 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 i feel so many people find that appealing those are very attractive human characteristics. 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 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 a gun salute and 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 always listen to fuss and not so when i don't go. there's even a cutoff if 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 formal society 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 at the. highest and one of the non looked down if you want the 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 you could to see it and one of the gnomes in the he was in contrast isn't compare that work from 885 to this one to 895 you can see that his style is already changing and doesn't think fundies a movie from some of the present figures to portraits cost money and joy doing portraits of modern people down and. 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.

depicts dr gushee in a typical melancholic pose like do are used for his famous engraving. but he's not referencing do a lot of work they're quite admired. by. their shows for quite a tussle in a sane asylum and hostile act as are in a melancholic with an atmosphere of genius and madness in the background and one title. the shtetl was the 1st public museum in germany to buy a 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 vanguard's 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 part of the museum's experts see him. 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 for tiriel and his technique so the painting was freely and looked at in depth with all these different techniques in the conservation studio. we've often found on the 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 nicks 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 we 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 of course not he's of course not the 1st one body but he's now his

findings are the most famous women in art history. and it's simply not true that vang god did not sell a single painting during his lifetime. he was born and raised in the brabant region in the netherlands. vango 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 1902 he sold a few drawings in the hague. van gough early works often portrayed the lives of farmers. this is the potato eaters from 885 his 1st large work in oil.

vincent road to theo that this painting shows people who worked with their hands and earned their food on a slave he noted that this life was quite different from then as that of the educated middle class. was fascinated by farm work. but he knew that society always changes with you its arms started to disappear and he knew well that there was more and more industrialization of what was 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 because like these people and wanted to live a life that was similar to that of a farmer laborers and coal miners on that didn't buy one but an abaya on that and core law by a time when i had signed a card on flushing tot he often gave away his clothes or went around looking shabby

when hot dogs and i'm tired but 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 god had some very wealthy relatives right or vi didn't with financial support if my we don't want us to accept his apparent poverty gave him street cred high as we say today hard to do street credibility oh my jesus wat nots 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 to rule 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 who changed his style again to capture the light of paris he plays 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 in providing southern france. to get a van gogh 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 historian. why vang goss works are still so relevant today longo he says guns into it was very interesting and important for him to move away from so long art and conventional compositions to. build a market he wanted to create art that had an immediate visual impact that an intention for and by doing that he anticipated trends that became common in the 20th century and into this still see those trends today in advertising and the

internet savvy 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 . he used it to don't mention all styles and that was also a key element conservation. at that time van gogh was inspired by japanese wood block prints which were popular among many of his contemporaries he suddenly started very big lection 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 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 airplanes prince you do not have to focus on watching the ironies prince but the magic word is primitivism to a 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

my. i think both and then go. a generation art has 1st break away from the western tradition hues deeply influenced by japanese prints and the japanese also associates of his trends and things so that means you look at a subject on the way appended it's not exactly the subject. but is the separate subject to your mind that in 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.

penned you know of one goal because caesar similarities. brush paintings is a lot of strokes and the color as now did really identified with its reality the color in our mind the heart and prefer which is a very typical trannies statics pender it's not. a receiver of the information that just of seen from nations into your own language. bangle 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. 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. this is the day he was obsessed with the color value of the census and when the sum gained on the man 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 viewing the time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets going mild

and want to tell you what guns i can and steal and cheli developed a unique style that involved a technique called impossible hostiles and if the application of paint in fig layers or strokes does 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 when god got his 1st positive art reviews by then and he wrote to the author i bear in mind that he neglected to mention the influence of money to charity is idle . ones have done you mind for a bit as monty charlie do comes if i guess since i've been. 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 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 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 gogh last 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 angles works in 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 m. johana vanguard 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 and 114 before world war one there were dozens of exhibitions of featured his works. and we've seen that at about the same time more and more german museums and private collectors were buying bengazi the daughter who bought some loaned money in platform got coal from as a dumb act when the 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 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 $1011.00 the steadily 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 that was and must leave a want to go home prize. and the legend of vango also helped to push prices higher. in german critique and novelist you

lias maya great did much to create that legend. michael davis on a constant by a grey felt was a central figure in making van gough legend of dying on the one hand an art critic of a collector dealer on the other hand a novelist a writer who saw the potential invent gough's work. eat because he wrote a history of the development of modern art in 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. done it to my agree for stylized van gough 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 with those under bonds and i gave us van gough biography was one of the 1st best sellers in art literature coffee wine a day i asked one of the best sellers the ones that are not work.

you had the van gogh honda 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 your rights theo was married to join you in a bone 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 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 and my grandfather was the owner of this amazing credible collection but in order to avoid it it would be defied it is 3 parts after his death the a 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 ever touched by vincent or theo weld out of the hands of the family and transferred it to a specially established for instance from girlfriend ation. so vang golf 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 ain't to maintain scientific accuracy and infuse future generations for vincent van gogh. the museum has 1700000 followers on instagram and about 2500000 likes on facebook thank god this 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 open and off in paris in 201-913-0000 i sold 413-0000 this is not. the weapon was found in 1960 in a field near all their school was where van gaal 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 vanguard 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 i've always obvious i would we said before the auction that there was 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 because of once that's what makes a reputable watch out also if we only said that's the gun that he could have killed himself so you have big. but before the yorks 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 by another. you know. in 2016 it was shown in amsterdam as part of the exhibition on the verge of insanity. dealing museum in frankfurt also wanted to borrow it for an exhibition. but was somebody known at a time when we had the actual mission who sent 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 of it and you have to look at it in that way i believe and it's when you it's small as a sum so when you buy an adoption 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 don't have

a proof of that he ever had it in his hand and. no. and i'm fed and although i would as a designer why they found a gun on fire when all there and it's supposed to be the one that ben used to kill himself. what did he really pull the trigger on is it possible that it's a different weapon on one of them when suddenly this worthless object this rusty revolver became a part of the legend and so we expressed interest in it but i don't want us 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 vango is said to have compiled in and allegedly found by a private individual but experts have serious doubts about its authenticity. so this is the quote if you see more of this drawing or can scarcely be considered the

work of god if only he was an excellent draftsman at that point. he created impressive color and light effects with pens and pencils. this drawing has none of that imho 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 tricky to restrict and it was quite clear also from the colors i mean that this brownish tins which we know from for instance for instance drawings have. wolf 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 time as it has these i'm had authenticity reports from renowned bank off experts so you can see a lot of people and a lot of money from ben god indeed. 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 showing in a way british artists a new way to be an artist and an artist it doesn't have to be necessary respect all that can paint in their bedroom or their front room and things like that. in 1957 british artist francis bacon put trade value as

a man with his head bowed on a path to nowhere. the paintings that bangle 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 portrays him in a very rough very. i would say expressionistic murder with stark red color not a very defined backgrounds that's also something that can go bells 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 and slewed big snow

was also influenced by van gogh and 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 been gossip portrait and next big moment when i come in i think it's a great combination because you can see how similar the self portraits are. with beckman heard about the big exhibition in amsterdam in 1005. and then grew a beard so they would look like vanguard of the here because if you know me from my gosh i'm so i can. be concerned by inventing you haven't got 5 artisans overcome their advantage all phrases relatively quickly because they don't want to be seen a success or soft convoy or not and so at some point ben got receipts further and

further into the background on one call him about it and him to a point that but his works open their minds to color to style to the application of color and some top want em and that helps them find their own style and gives them the courage to find their own style and want in mood to mine i've mentioned it's a fantasy. so is it 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 innovators 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

in him they may succeed in finding themselves. the bugs. get. more in film. with their violence trauma and fascination. are they in form a little more skeptical. armstrong didn't. feel

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