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 sort of painting was really. 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 the device that he has sketched in the 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 is techniques 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 vango 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 that subject as something that he could 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 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 noonan 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. vang gulfs early works often portrayed the lives of farmers. as. 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 is that of the educated middle class. the 1st time god was fascinated by farm work. 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 industrialization of what is it. an arm what and when he asked people to pose for him he didn't want to come across as a wealthy artist didn't want and he said he like these people here comes and wanted to live a life that was similar to that of a farmer all laborers and coal miners and that didn't buy one but an abaya time it didn't call a time when i'd sign a card 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. and of course then god

had some very wealthy relatives who provided him 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 do street credibility oh my jesus was one 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 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 doll and flat and transparent. and he put dots of complimentary 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. that gives a blank goal spends 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. why vanguard's works are still so relevant today van gogh is dance. it was very interesting and important for him to move away from sold on art and conventional compositions he wants to. build a model he wanted to create art that had an immediate visual impact that name to show that of 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 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 . he used it to don't mention a style and that was also he element. at that time vanga 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 i did that because the relationship with theo was. becoming off evil 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 much and you can use 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 my.

generation art has 1st break away from the western tradition he is deeply influenced by japanese prints and the japanese princess also associate trends and things so that means you look at the subject on the way appended it's not exactly a subject. but is a separate subject to your mind and your heart so you remember rise that you are restructuring to boosie your mind i mean your heart so that's a big difference from the western tradition. for chinese and pending over one goal we can see the similarities training them

brush paintings is a lot more strokes and the color is not a dream at that defied history oddity is really that color in our mind the heart and if you prefer which is very typical trannies statics. is not. a receiver of the information. 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 by god 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. today. you see but today he was obsessed with the color value up assessment on this and again on the night 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 gearing the time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets. and went to chile hot and guns ivan and steele and the chili developed

a unique style that involved a technique called impossible hostiles and if the application of paint in fact 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 1st one big 890 when god got his 1st positive reviews by him and he wrote to the author i bear every year more on that he neglected to mention the influence of more to charity is i don't i but all you once have done you mind for a bit is money charity. 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 bank 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 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. of paris gallery owner called valar showed some of angus works in 895 and there was a full exhibition in 1901 but it didn't attract much attention amongst collectors. that would change in $905.00 in amsterdam steadily community in your honner vanguard bongo organized an exhibition of vang goss complete works and it had

a huge impact. at the shtetl museum in frankfurt alexander i linger and his team have been studying how the angle was so successfully marketed particularly in germany. one can up once not from from 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 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 vanguard daughter provides the inputs it's funny. as 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 aluminums adama but museums and collectors there were not

buying as well as some not often got i'm just playing what he was enjoying my garnish. prices for vanguard were rising accordingly an invoice from a parasite gallery shows that in 1011 the state owned museum paid a huge sum for the portrait of dr gets say. the money was paid in installments it cost a total of $20000.00 francs that 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 prize. and the legend of bengal also helped to push prices higher than. german critique and novelist e.u. leaders 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

a legend of dying on the one hand i'm an art critic at the 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 1900 m. with in which a large chapter was dedicated to van gough it was a 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. that to my ok 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 will be on bonds and i gave us van gough biography was one of the 1st best sellers in art literature coffee line a day i asked one of the best sellers once literati were. you handed a van gogh 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 were right theo was married to join you and i'm going and the young couple of 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 was from hanging and in the living room the element blossomed a beautiful one of the most beautiful paintings ever made. dedicated by fences 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 avoid that it would be defied to see the part after his death the a 3 children and his dream was to keep the collection together and to share a collection read everybody for always so he brought the entire collection everything effort in center theo brought out of the hands of the family and transferred it to a specially established for instance from girlfriend ation. so vang gulf 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 293-0000 i sold 413-0000 i just thought. 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 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 fangirl 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 auction also we only said that's the gun that he could have killed themselves so you have to. but before the yorks in the weapon was advertised as vang gulfs 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. in 2016 it was shown in amsterdam as part of the exhibition on the verge of insanity in the schnoodle museum in frankfurt also wanted to borrow it for an exhibition. but was somebody known at a time when we had the expedition who sent no not quite like that and so and so he was asked what do you think a figure 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 why i believe and it's when you it's small as a sum so when you buy an adopted 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 cannot you don't have a proof of that he ever had a tent and. no. at the end i'm fed and all that i would as a designer why they found a gun on file when all there and it's supposed to be the one that vanguard used to

kill himself in the current. what did he really pull the trigger on is it possible that it's a different weapon on him one of them would suddenly this worthless object this rusty revolver became a part of the legend author and so expressed interest in that but i don't want us to much into it. 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 can scarcely be considered the work of god if only he was an excellent draftsman at that point as a career. he created impressive color and light effects with pens and pencils.

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 risky and it was quite clear also from the colors i mean that it's brownish tins which we know from for instance since the drawings have. all faded in more or less and this was 2 evenly colors in so it was didn't look like it was drawn with with a black ink which was discovered to brown but simply browning. dishonest can earn a lot of money selling vango forgeries in 1932

a bird broke out auto vaca was convicted on charges of putting 30 of them on the market given time as of his use i'm had authenticity reports from renowned bank off 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 showing in a way british artists a new way to be an artist and an artist it doesn't have to be this the same respect all that 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 monk painted this portrait of felix auerbach in 1906 he portrays him in a very rough very. i would say expressionistic murder with this stark red color not a very defined background that's also something that can go of course and putting all his attention and focus on the character of our bar and it's interesting that in his letter is not so much about this part of it also out of portraits he refers to go. german artist and slewed big no 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 whose every have been portrayed and the next big moment 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 that he would look like bengali here because if you know me from going on 5 then. you can send govind 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 and so at some point then got receipts further and further into the background than one got in the right and then he wanted but his works open their minds to color to style to the application of color and some top of todd want em and that

helps them find their own style and gives them the courage to find their own style went in mood after the hard man i 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 you know various 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.

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