Van Gogh Adventure: Vincent's Ghost and Me

With paintbrush and digital camera in hand, Phil Savenick makes a pilgrimage to France to stalk the ghost of Vincent Van Gogh. After misadventures at Vincent's yellow house and favorite bridge, his spirit finally appears at the asylum in San Remy... and invites us to paint sunflowers with him.

[@Nualchemist]

Thank you for this wonderful presentation. Vincent's loneliness is so heartbreaking. He was so tormented. Planting sunflowers at the asylum is a great tribute to the artist.

[@dianeburnham9336]

This was soooooo awesome!!!! Thank you!!!!❤🎨🖼🎭🎁🤗Van Gogh ((Sunflowers))

[@thecrispy7789]

Finally, someone who knows the correct pronunciation of his last name. Kudos sir.

[@apxpandy4965]

Wow, that was a great presentation. Made me feel like I was there, great art, great history. Thanks for that! Oh, and you're painting is pretty good, too!

[@anneshields2010]

Wish I had a time machine I’d go back and fetch Vincent and bring him to today and show him how famous and loved he is

[@Nualchemist]

That's exactly what Dr. Who did.

[@ethernat]

Exactly search dr who Vincent in youtube and see

[@cjshaw551]

Yours is a beautiful and charming story. I’ve dreamed of doing exactly what you did many times. Thank you so much

[@patriciajenkins-galliford7583]

Thank you so much That was a lot of fun I don't travel much but it was sure nice to take that trip with you. Amazing 🥰

[@timhuffman5311]

I am saddened that there are so few views. You did a great job. Seeing the things that Vincent actually painted, amazing. Thank You.

[@nobodyyouknow6926]

Hi Phil, it’s your pal Alfonz. I remember you telling me about your plans to go to France and paint; honestly thought you were bullshitting me. You did it, and it was a wonderful experience to watch. I never knew you had a KZbin channel, so now I’ll keep up with all of your exploits. Hope you’re doing well, my friend. You’re a fascinating individual. ✌🏼

[@Get__StuffDone]

Thank you for sharing this. Love the eyes on the painting following you... 🙂

[@robertatavola3070]

lOVE iT..MADE ME SMILE tHANK yOU.

[@vanrijngo]

Second time for me watching this video. The first time seeing it I put it up on face book for my friends to see. I never commented so I will do it now. The video is very masterly done for viewers to enjoy. Tells little story of the ways the greatest artist of this world created his works of arts. You will have to over look some of what is said though. I believe myself that a little of what is said is a little mythical, but is usually believed by most who believe MFA expertise conclusions.

[@sandipadnos]

Brilliant, whimsical, insightful. This will touch many lives and inspire other artists to follow their dreams.

[@vincentvangogh4120]

A TRUE ARTIST.

[@caifrank7425]

Vincent , the King of Color

[@Cedar1956]

An amazing film every student of art should see. Inspired me.

[@stefyguereschi]

Well done Videostory,To notice The Su flowers are problaby among the most famous paintings of all time.

[@saulomendoza8927]

[@flamingredhed]

Brilliant - I adore Van Gogh

[@marialuisasepulveda6362]

Interesante el comentario!!muy bien Luis!!!

[@mateusfp]

Thank you for the nice video! Made me feel willing to go to Arles...

[@BrianJMonahan]

best vid online ,more, more!

[@MaxLib]

This is pretty tripped out. Two thumbs up.

[@crowquake4123]

I love this. It has great spirit.

[@kittychung5339]

Amazing! Refreshing! Enjoy the whole tour.

[@Invisible__Woman]

LOL you are so funny with lively knowledge and such amazing painting skill. I love it. And the rain loves you too. LOL

[@brettmasters5379]

wonderful 🙂

[@Walkman0007]

hey thanks for the nice images and the tour! this video should have more views for sure, way underrated

[@LarryGraff]

Fantastic quest … and production. Thanx!

[@TCO1216]

well done Sir going on a similar trip in 3 months. Vids like this should have 400M hits

[@jerryp4life]

Ummmmm....? Did anyone notice @ about 11:12 to 11:15 ish the eyes in the self portrait shift? Really nice creepy lil touch in the film ( ghost of van goph) i mean i hope that was intentional???? : O

[@merciful8747]

OMG!!!

[@moomoo3031]

made me jump! thanks for pointing that out.

[@mahimqatar2031]

Ya.... What was that...

[@mona2242]

Jerry Prewitt cute! But we want to believe ,I guess.

[@victorferr1]

That's definitely not intentional...

[@harleyguy9956]

I think what you've done here is wonderful. Having just been to Arles and Saint-Remy it was really neat to see it again through your expression. Found it interesting that at10:24 when talking about " walking up the stone steps where the artist was confined..." you show a picture of the hospital in Arles that he was in when he cut off his ear lobe not the institution in Saint-Remy...besides that this video was wonderfully done.

[@rener689]

@Franciene Friederike the song at 05:15 is following: Satie: Gnossiennes -No. 1 . I like this song a lot too, so I did some research..

[@renzo6490]

Does this make sense? Van Gogh gathers together his easel, paints, canvas, solvent, brushes etc. and heads out, as he often did, to a spot in the landscape to spend a day of painting. He also brings a gun with him so that, at some point, he can commit suicide. Even though there is no record of his ever owning or possessing a gun! And no gun was found anywhere.

[@mr.ramjangles5165]

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[@hansolo2121]

It is well known that Vincent cut off his entire ear. Not just the earlobe. See documentary The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear.

[@DarinCaryn]

It's occurring to me Mr. Van Gogh is telling you to paint with oils. :o

[@moomoo3031]

which was what he used too. poor Theo trying to keep him in paint!

[@unorthodoxparadox2339]

*Yes*

[@soy_meraki]

Eyeiris

[@karenfulk191]

I had vincent's spirit.visit me years ago! It was very real.

[@hv97]

What was the experience like? I am interested in hearing it if you don't mind sharing.

[@karenfulk191]

@@hv97 well, I came to believe it was a familiar spirit, not quite sure what those are but it was like automatic drawing induced by drugs at the time. Everything I read I felt I wrote in a past life or something. I wish I had some drawings i did to show you but one self portrait looked just like the woman with the fork in the potato eaters. The energetic movement of his strokes i still do sometimes but he was a genius with color that I never experienced. A psychic actually told me one time the spirit of van gogh had been teaching me. That was interesting. She said he was still walking the earth. Actually, once the spirit started getting a little crazy I told it to split and it left me. Not long after I saw a series of crazy van gogh style paintings at an art fair. The artists wife said her husband also felt he had his spirit in him. A familiar spirit in the bible is a disembodied spirit pretending to be someone. The just want to inhabit people. They're demonic.

[@augustaugust7667]

Last night Vincent spirit was in my room, all night long I was singing "just out of the blue" starry starry night /Vincent/ the Vincent song I got up to go to the bathroom I came back and I felt the spirit I was not trying to do any of this it just happens.... it's happened to me the majority of my life this time I was trying to figure out who the spirit was because I had a few people on my mind at 2:00 3:00 in the morning so from then till about 7:00 in the morning I sang the song Vincent over and over again I don't know why this is never happened to me before but during the night I got the feeling got the message that it was Vincent and spirits come to me in a certain way and they physically touch my legs in a certain way and anyway I woke up tried to understand why he came to me and what I could think of is that we grew up with one of his paintings in our house and then my oldest brother painted portraits of Vincent that still sit sit in my dad's house...💙🤍

[@DeltaSniperZRR]

Which month was this recorded? Are the sunflowers still there?

[@jamesanonymous2343]

For once and for all ! ! ! Vincent did "NOT" end his life,, he was shot accidently. Boys will be ?

[@photoshareshops4687]

Wonderful!!!

[@art-animals-life7407]

very cool! I like it!

[@sandrajohnson2489]

There are two photos that are not Vincent. The young boy is Theo and the man has never been acknowledged by the Van Gogh museum as being Vincent. Also, Vincent was not shot in the heart. He was shot in the abdomen by Rene Secretan. I despise these videos that are inaccurate about Vincent.

[@pilierofq]

He did not shoot him self a young boy playing with a 6 gun acidently shot him [ and not in the heart he would have died at once he lived for a while.He did not want the boy to get in trouble.

[@patrickowens4146]

Nick qfn people who shoot themselves tend to shoot themselves in the head. So what your saying seems to make sense. Could i ask you how you know this?

[@Glorfinniel]

The credibility of this documentary was ruined when he said Vincent shot himself in the heart. Vincent was shot in the stomach and died 2 days later. The doctor said the gunshot went through him on an angle from a distance. A group of boys playing with a pistol were suspected of killing him.

[@renzo6490]

Nick qfn ...I’m skeptical about the idea that he committed suicide. No gun was ever found.

[@lapoksaakayo-o3374]

in the final scenes in the film loving vincent which I recommend watching.. old roulin said something like "why like a man like him snuffed out because of some accident" and he added "covering up for those boys" finally confirms my realization after reading your comment that van gogh really wants to die. Because he kept saying that he shot himself to the end even that he really doesnt. Its really very sad.

[@isowrdful]

Yes, that’s the correct story.

[@bryanvasquez6388]

Very nice film

[@JamesJohnson-bo9pt]

Merci!

[@David-cm4ok]

Are you still alive bruh? Great work.

[@susanjohnston8973]

I wish the narrative that Vincent shot himself would stop. A man does not commit suicide by shootings himself in the abdomen at a distance. There is a great deal of evidence that he was shot, likely accidentally, by teenage boys who were known to harass him.

[@pbtraveler694]

Have you read Naifeh and Smith's biography? I believe their contention, based on a lot of evidence, that he didn't commit suicide, but rather it was a tragic accident involving the gun of a boy who used to taunt him.

[@2009Bowiefan]

It’s a sweet story, thank you. Journalists who have gotten into the St Remi asylum say that it’s difficult to get into it. Did you find that?

[@gael1951]

Brilliant video Phil. I am sharing this with my Book Club, we just finished Sacre Bleu by Moore. Moore takes a different approach to Vincents' death. G

[@demistoclesps5465]

The van Gogh is happypaint and costfully, all Happy,wat happened forma Next crazy mAn no Paint for me

[@Kirschbaumzweig]

Great video! Really enjoyed it! Could you please tell me the title of the music played at the beginning and at 05:15? Thank you!! :)

[@AlfredReinoldBaudisch]

0:37 that photo is not Van Gogh, fiy. Van Gogh Museum never showed it as a recognized Van Gogh's photo.

[@caesarillion]

Live 100 years. Thank you.

[@blueridgepics]

Through the heart??? This is untrue. Everyone knows it. I'm done here, not watching any more.

[@renelevaillant6601]

God help us !!

[@mckavitt]

If he came back today, he'd have hated our cheap commercialisation & been ultimately rejected, whether his paintings continued to sell & earn him millions or not. And would probably have ended up in a mental hospital, & would have died as he did, by his own hand, or even murdered, by profiteers. People would not have supported his taciturn manner nor his unrelenting integrity.

[@kevinmeserole7345]

The painting you show of Vincent with the bandage over the ear was the fake.

[@basicdose.9872]

Tell me about it.

[@XAVIERCUERVO]

whats the song at 5:16 pls

[@michaelrg3836]

Eric Satie, Gnossienne no.1

[@renajsh]

Otherwise, a cute little film.

[@jayhallman6666]

0:38 is a Photo of his father.

[@unorthodoxparadox2339]

No, Vincents father was Theodurous Van Gogh

[@kevangogh]

Nice video, I've drew the church in Auvers on the same spot where he stood, it's almost a religious experience. The photograph you include in this video is not considered authentic, however. He also shot himself in the stomach.

[@robcoghan5204]

You should do a little more research, you have a lot wrong here.