Van Gogh: The Absolute Painter

How did van Gogh, son of Dutch middle class parents, become Vincent the painter? Is the common perception of him as the ultimate tormented artist the whole story? Explore the roots of his life, and the progress of his incredible talent despite many failures both personal and professional.
Series : Behind the Artist -La Grande Expo

[@Clownsareus]

Excellent documentery, VvG was a vey humble ,and kind man . To see the world as he seen it ,and to paint it without any successs in his lifetime must have damaged him . What an gifted and extraordinary man with an even more extraordinary life .

[@paigetomkinson1137]

I quite enjoyed this documentary on van Gogh. There were a few things I hadn't heard before, and I'm always excited about that. I always feel, though, that I wish I could grab him out of the past, and help him with whatever it was that troubled him. Of course they couldn't treat syphilis then, so that was a problem, although it seems like others lived with it for a long time, like Hernan Cortez, or Al Capone. It did devastate Capone's brain in the end. I do wish that in some documentary, there would be a section on his paintings of olive trees. I find them to be about the most captivating of all his paintings. I do adore the vivid colors, and vibrant brush strokes of his more known paintings, but the olive trees must speak to me. Thanks for providing a great documentary.

[@beebop7442]

and still, people do not understand a man or woman who has a heart

[@ggghhjd]

Thanks to the bullshit over-loud music i lasted 90 seconds with this one

[@fletchchannel770]

The transitional rock music was too loud and worked against the tone of a biographical video. I couldn't watch the entire thing because of it.

[@dagmarsart]

This.

[@jacquigriffin5973]

A couple of the early photos were of Theo not Vincent. You can tell because Theo had much rounder ears. Plus his parents would not have drove away in a yellow "car" in 1864; a yellow carriage maybe.

[@gentianvandewerken929]

Its not disturbed /its full of emotion of scrappy sacred majesty!

[@deepak26v]

Legend !! At least he did not waste time on TikTok, Snapchat etc.

[@prabhatlamatamang]

One of the greatest human being born ever on a planet !

[@dagmarsart]

The music used in this ruined the documentary. And other things.

[@levparnas9380]

I am Auberge Ravoux and I just took a couple of American suckers for 10 francs ! #smartest dealer ever!

[@StudywithNainika]

Strange world,when someone is alive no one cares😐😐

[@cynthiac.d6805]

I don't understand why there is a photograph of a sitter in this video that is not Vincent van Gogh. This photograph has never been documented and he wasn't fond of photographs, let alone sit for a portrait in a studio.

[@guslevy3506]

At this point, several yrs after the discovery of Dr. Rey’s note that depicts the entire ear being cut off, how does any documentary present the argument that Vincent had only cut off a part of the ear lobe? To argue that only a part was cut off is as wacky a theory at this point as Vincent being shot by some neighborhood kids rather than shooting himself...there is no convincing support for this theory.

[@nancyblum12]

Absolutely agree. The dr's drawing clearly shows he severed his entire ear. Also, didn't Vincent say to Theo as he lay dying that he did it for the good of all? Of course he shot himself. Life was too much for him to endure especially w his devastating illness looming over him.

[@Oscarspoem]

Actually the best Documentary on Van Gogh. Paxmanbis as usual brilliant. It is moving also. I love learning new things about Vincent. Gaugain version of events are hard to be seen as true. I feel he abandoned Vincent. I live Gaugain work and lived the Exhibition in the National art gallery. As I was leaving, I stopped to look at his final portrait. He looked sad and I overhead two women say they were glad, because of what he did to Vincent. I think back then, mental health was not understood, so I will give Gaugain the benefit of that.

[@tonvanderzalm4612]

👍👍

[@El_Hicks]

omg, STOP showing Theo's photo as Vincent. And absinthe was NEVER poured over sugar or set on fire. This is a modern idiot bartender fad. Put some effort into these things.

[@paigetomkinson1137]

There is a very famous advertising poster by Henri Privat-Livemont showing a woman holding a glass of absinthe. The glass has an absinthe spoon over the top, with a sugar cube which has water dripping/falling on it. The poster was made in 1896. Besides, if water, dripping on a sugar cube, wasn't added, the "green fairy," or the swirl of cloudiness, didn't appear. The sugar is just much better for the taste. The absinthe was served with those elements being separate. The customer added the sugar and water. As far as lighting anything on fire, that seems really dubious.

[@lukealadeen7836]

Change the thumbnail

[@tiagocoelho1505]

Does anyone know the name of the song on 34 minutes?

[@stacytheblueeyedblondhaire2030]

8:06 I'm confused but then again I'm a dumb blond. I thought that cars were invented much later. Do you mean a yellow buggy or carriage ??

[@paigetomkinson1137]

It was a carriage. I have no idea why the narrator said a car. It's documented in one of Vincent's letters to his parents, several years later, that he watched their carriage leave. Perhaps it was yellow, Vincent doesn't say in the letter.

[@sandyfarley260]

The horrible music in this documentary is very strident and distracting!

[@harrymonk6]

I had to double take then . i thought it said The absolute wanker

[@hansolo2121]

HARRY MONK If someone ever decides to writes a biography about you ... now you have the title.

[@harrymonk6]

@@hansolo2121 i had to double take then would b a shit name for a book ffs

[@permadifauza5251]

😣 van gogh ?: how to make rich the other man

[@hemaartest2469]

You do not know anything about Van Gogh