also 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 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 the amount of pain to study would need to you know to to

paint a specific amount of canvases. did lange go 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 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. bank of 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 it is from 1885 his 1st large work in oil. vincent road to theo that this painting 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 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 amen what and when he asked for people to pose for him he didn't want to come across as a wealthy artist on board and watch and he said he's like these people and wanted to live a life that was similar to that of farmers and laborers and coal miners and that didn't buy one but an object on that and 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 of food 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 right or voted in 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 street credibility you might do this lot when lots and. in fact his brother theo enabled him to enjoy a good standard of living he regularly sent him a lot of money every $2.00 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. bangkok 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. to get a leg of spent 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 bangkok's works are still so relevant today longo he says dance into sound it was very interesting and important for him to move away from so long art and conventional compositions to one's art. market he wanted to create art that had an immediate visual impact that name to show and by doing that he anticipated trends that became common in the 20th century into this just see those trends today in advertising and on the internet sat straight to the message and if they had 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 dimensional style and that was also element consistent. at that time vanga 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 definitions 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 he 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.

i think. art has 1st break away from the western tradition he is deeply influenced by japanese prince and the japanese princess also associates restrains and kings so that means you look at a subject i know why you painted it's not exactly a sock character. but is a separate subject to your mind on your heart so you remember rise it your restructure to boosie your mind i mean your heart so that's a big difference from the western tradition.

of one goal because caesar similarities. brush paintings is a lot more strokes and the color as noted really identified with riyadi is really coloring our mind the heart and if you prefer which is a very typical trainees statics. is not. a receiver of the information back to us of seeing from nations into your own language. painted was he filled in colors that he felt often in an abstract style he often discussed these concepts with his friend the french artist paul go. he painted by god 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. and was. sympathetic he was obsessed with the color. sesson 2 in the same game on 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 charlie had worked there and give us here in that time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets. i want to tell you what and guns iron and steel and cheli developed

a unique style that involved a technique called impassable stalls and if the application of paint in layers are strokes as the man gives the work an added depth and structure and you can see how the paint really stands out with streaks and furrows on fast one dickey 1819 god then god got his 1st positive art reviewers by and he wrote to the author i bear we hear that he neglected to mention the influence of more to charity is i don't have it or you once had don't you mind for a bit of money charity house if i guess and. 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 vango state including paintings drawings and letters passed to theo's widow she would make

vincent vanguard an international superstar. your honner vanguard bonga 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 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 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 on the tile and we've seen that at about the same time more and more german museums and private collectors were buying bengazi feeler daughter pre-bought somnolent museum plotted from as a dumb act when i did so there was a big increase in germany but not in france in the netherlands except for the big exhibition in amsterdam aluminums damo but museums and collectors there were not buying as well as some not often got i'm just playing what you mostly enjoy my god

. 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 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 prize. and the legend of bengal also helped to push prices higher. german art critic 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. but he wrote a history of the development of modern art in $1004.00 in which a large chapter was dedicated to van gough it was a cup it'll give it much but how about if you develop the whole thing into a biography in 1010 months and in 1021 finally into a novel. done it would that my a great 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 it will be on vanzant 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 one split on our team were. you one of angola bonded died in 925 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 bengal foundation. so there you are right theo was married to you after you and i'm going and the young couple of. 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 finn sent 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 in c. parts after his death theatre 3 children and his dream was to keep the collection together and to share the collection with everybody for always so he brought the entire collection everything efforts by fan center theo but out of the hands of the family and transferred it to a specially established france and franco front ation. so vanka all 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 vanguard

. 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 ocean doff in paris in 2019 or 130000 i sold 413-0000 eyes if not all. the weapon was found in 960 in a field near all their school was where vanguard 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's 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 overall lovers i mean 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 because we've always been careful to leave it as a possibility and once that's what makes a reputable watch also we only says that that's the gun that he could have killed himself with over so you have work to do. but before the yorks in the weapon was advertised as vanguards 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 that was shown in amsterdam as part of the exhibition on the verge of insanity the sheila museum in frankfurt also wanted to borrow it for an exhibition. that was somebody known at a time when we had the expedition who's 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 way i believe and it's when you it's smaller to some so when you haven't updated very well likely what does this i mean we have to take the word from be it from from from from the landowner 960 that indeed he found it on his mind or not somewhere else you cannot you don't have a prove of that he ever had a tent and. no. fed at all they are good as a designer why they found a gun on fire then or there and it's supposed to be the one that vanguard used to

kill himself how does he go up there but 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 i don't want us to intercede. 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. but. 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 it is brownish tins which we know from for instance the colors of for instance drawings have in the wall 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 but simply browning. dishonest dealers can earn a lot of money selling vango forgeries in 1932

a burly an art broker auto vaca was convicted on charges of putting 30 of them on the market divan tires of his ease on head authenticity reports from renowned vanguard 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 sharing 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 that can paint in their beds you want 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 munch painted this portrait of felix auerbach in 1906. portrait him in a very rough very. i would say expressionistic matter with 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 boss and it's interesting that in his letter is not so much about this portrait also other portraits he refers to that go. german artist and. no was also influenced by then go as we see in this painting from 1908. artists turn vang doss

artistic power into their program of artistic self dramatization max beckmann as vincent. here in this business from the government who is there we have ben got. the next big minds and 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 1000 or 5 and then grew a beard so they would look like them got the here because if you know me from god i'm so i. can send a van gough artisans overcome they're going to go off with us relatively quickly because they don't want to be seen a success or a soft convoy or not it and so at some point then got receipts further and further into the background than one got him about and then he wanted but his works opening lines 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 want to move mine i have 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 will 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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