The Mystery of Van Gogh's Sunflowers | Raiders Of The Lost Art

[@ratgirl13]

Vincent Van Gogh and Johannes Vermeer are my lifelong inspirations. Thank you for such great videos.❤

[@joevasquez3434]

Agreed. A very well-done video.

[@carlabroderick5508]

I lived with a reproduction of one of these for many years. It illuminated my life. I love you Van Gogh. So sorry Gauguin left.

[@expromanticart6491]

Thanks, you would have left too. Nostalgia does not give us all the facts.

[@ponykill3r]

This comment meant a lot to me thank you for it

[@reuterromain1054]

The Sunflowers with the dark-blue background is the one i like best.

[@nefwaenre]

As a kid in art school, Sunflower was the first painting i saw and i instantly fell in love. It made me feel happy. To think, a man with such pain in his heart, painted such a happy painting. Van Gogh remains my most favourite post impressionist artist, seconded by Cezanne. ♥

[@shivasirons6159]

" Monet is just an eye, but what an eye"!

[@lynnblack6493]

Me to. Had sunflower really cheap print. I loved it. Happy everytime I looked at it. Maybe why I love yellow!

[@MsShirley97]

i love sunflower 🌻🌻🌻

[@edpoe4591]

ICONIC 🌻🌻🌻 7 of them . Yellow = HAPPY

[@Yellow-IV]

Yes

[@CarlBowlby]

A good mini-documentary though it didn’t address the fake sunflower painting and I agree with those who commented on the background music which was too intense and troubling for my tastes, along with its incongruence with the paintings’ subject matter.

[@STEAMAIR1]

In my eyes " sunflowers " looks a very simple painting but for uknown reason can't stop staring at it

[@agendaured]

I'd happily die listening to these documentaries

[@soilmanted]

The first sunflower painting shown that was given to Gaughan - with swirling seeds - it looks like it was painted in Vincent's typical "whirlwind" style - it looks like it was knocked out quickly. Whether it actually was, I don't know. But regardless - the painting somehow evokes the very peculiar and distinct spiral way that sunflower seeds are arranged within a flower. Damn flower must have 100's of seeds, yet it looks like Vincent painted all of them within a few minutes time. It also looks like each individual seed gets only 1 brush stroke, nevertheless each seed somehow has highlights of various colors. Did Vincent put several colors of paint on each on a brush, and have several brushes, so that he can give different seeds different colors and highlights - and still paint the whole thing in a few minutes? Looking at this painting, especially the rendering of the seeds, I am flabbergasted. Can someone explain how this was done? Was there some trick to it that I am missing? This is not one of my favorite paintings by Vincent. I like the feeling I get from his landscapes and from his renditions of laboring people. The sunflower looks more like a practice exercise to me, than an expressive painting. Nevertheless, I am still amazed.

[@mr.ramjangles5165]

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[@debranchelowtone]

It's nice to have found a good reproduction of the destroyed one.

[@jennychapeau602]

Thank you.

[@emmanuelmendonca3922]

Which sunflower painting is shown at 4:30?

[@madameversiera]

ThE is the most incredible painting in the history, and the fact that the sunflowers ended up in Hiroshima is such an absurd story...

[@acuarya7062]

As absurd as millions of egyption & african artifacts are in Europe

[@BikeVermont71]

I've heard that the color yellow is so unstable that we can't really appreciate what these paintings looked like to van Gogh and his contemporaries.

[@JiveDadson]

Some yellow and red pigments are fugitive. Aureolin yellow and Alizarin crimson are two of them. Van Gogh used both, possibly to save money. Today there are many good and cheap yellows and reds that are quite stable.

[@jimhresco1728]

Not to mention what dirt and pollution has done to them. I also read where some of his paintings were cleaned and varnished but they had lost their original luster.

[@youcancallmeana]

I find it interesting that most historians take Gauguin's account verbatim, when most people always describe themselves as the hero of the story, and that's pretty subjective.

[@HAUNTED-DOLL]

I wondered the same thing. Maybe if van Gogh hadn't taken the hunk of his ear over to the bordello that night, more people would have suspected that perhaps Gauguin had whacked it off during their "falling out". Traditionally, if someone is attacked and it results in an injury, (such as an ear amputation) they report the crime to the proper authorities. van Gogh chose to hand deliver his missing bloody lobe to some ladies of the night instead. "Self-inflicted" makes more sense.

[@debranchelowtone]

@@HAUNTED-DOLL He actually cut the helix, not the lobe. Exists a drawing made by his doctor.

[@shivasirons6159]

I find it interesting that other than the night pictures Vincent didn't seem to paint alot of shadow.

[@briancarney3443]

Can not remember the first van Gogh I may have ever seen. the sunflowers were among the first, and remember my first thoughts of them. for me the moved not only in shapes, but in ways much more inexplicably... Vivid... His Colors....

[@lestariabadi]

Is there anyway knowing which one he painted when he’s medicated & which one when he’s off it. Many schizophrenic artists now refuse medication fearing their art suffer.

[@cattracks9100]

Were there medications available in VanGogh's time? Maybe all there was were things like ECT and inducing insulin coma, if even those. Poor man.

[@matttheman9740]

@@cattracks9100 I think they just locked ya up in the looney bin back then. Any mental illness today, even something simple as depression, was seen as crazy up untill the 19th century. Thats when most medications were finally coming around by very patient doctors.

[@HAUNTED-DOLL]

He painted "Starry Night" whilst he was in the asylum. I doubt he was medicated during that time. He was still corresponding with his brother at that time and I don't think there was any mention of medications at least.

[@based_prophet]

Starry sky is my banger

[@paulschnyder938]

What’s with the bloody background music all the time? Really ruins the documentary

[@mikeyoung9810]

I hadn't paid it any mind.

[@p3t3rjhackett]

This documentary includes the Yasuda fake. I wonder why.

[@njmccormackgmail]

No one wants to admit it's fake.

[@debranchelowtone]

@@njmccormackgmail The letters shows that he made two copies not three. But huh big money will disagree.

[@based_prophet]

It's funny he learned to draw sunflowers from a Japanese artist

[@lazynut81]

Most well known works?

[@els1f]

Calandra Caldecott is such an awesome name

[@mikeyoung9810]

Great name and beautiful woman. I love her voice as well.

[@CrypticArtsStudios]

All sitters regretting on their deathbeds that they stood up these now famous painters. You traded your forever name drop for sunflowers 🤣🤣

[@jessicarinaldi7742]

Itinéraire d'un phare a un astre

[@joevasquez3434]

After what Germany did to VanGogh's homeland Germany does not deserve to any of Vincent's pieces hanging anywhere in Germany, or any other great art pieces, ever ! Two world wars and millions of human beings murdered, ... NO NEVER !!

[@meredith7236]

Theo's wife was a clever woman

[@joevasquez3434]

There are incorrect facts in the video, but what is said is myth by now anyway. The romance of VanGogh will never die.

[@mikeyoung9810]

Kansas is the sunflower state. I knew he was a kansan.

[@paulhayward4383]

He only lived with Vincent because Theo paid him

[@dhanlitozi184]

me who don't understand arts be like 🤨

[@cockatielcompanion9248]

Well this aged bad

[@abielcotto2392]

You need to make a name first, then you can fart at a painting and call it Art, then people would talk on how you jump and brake gravity laws to achieve that remarkable Doo doo farting technic and how you master it by eating different meals a day before you high fart your paintings...

[@briancarney3443]

....huh...

[@abielcotto2392]

@@briancarney3443 lol