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 peoples 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 heres 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 artists memory. He leased out the bar where vanguard once sat its 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 hes like a hero to them. Thats 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 theyre 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 socalled madness by his genius. Next question on the longer youve heard the saying you cant 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 thats 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 artists letters for the Van Gogh Museum in amsterdam vandeven says that a selective reading of this correspondence obscures the artists 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 dont 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 undereducated 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 dont 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 youre someone who grew up to have tradition in which social function plays a major role. Really what you dont 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 its 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 arts sake if you know when i speak on this topic at conferences also a lot of people reject this view as you know its 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. Its 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 didnt 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 artists 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 hes now an enormously successful one of the worlds 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 its time to check the facts to do that weve come to the Shtetl Museum in frankfurt a mine whose fuss and yet. I find his paintings and drawings absolutely fascinating but im less interested in the myths that have grown up around a gun salute and dont tell me how. You cant evaluate his work properly if you focus too much on his personal life is a fact. I think ive retained and increased my fascination for the original always listen to fuss and not so when i dont go. Theres even a cutoff if this work shows a woman who is planting potatoes but we dont see her face the focus is on her bulky limbs her hands and her clogs its 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 its 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 isnt compare that work from 885 to this one to 895 you can see that his style is already changing and doesnt 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 hes not referencing do a lot of work theyre 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 artists 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 its not known who owns it now. Alexander island takes a sober approach to his study of vanguards work and he succeeds in getting closer to him through drawings and prints. The Van Gough Museum in amsterdam which contains the Worlds Largest collection of the artists 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 museums 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 dont know and theres 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. Weve 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 thats also confirmed by all the research that weve 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 ive chosen the sunflowers and ive really been the 1st one to take the sunflower as the as it is a subject its of course not hes of course not the 1st one body but hes now his findings are the most famous women in art history. And its 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 didnt 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 didnt 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 im tired but he believed that this gave him credibility and a sense of selfsacrifice that was inspired by jesus christ steps off in of course then god had some very wealthy relatives right or vi didnt with Financial Support if my we dont 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 brothers 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 artists 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 dont 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 theres 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 vanguards 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 its 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 thats 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 its 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 ive 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 theos 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 familys 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 didnt attract m