The Arts Hole
This time we’re taking a look at the works of Vincent Van Gogh, someone who probably doesn’t need much of an introduction but whose works are invaluable to our understanding of Modern art. We take a look at his early development, religious tendencies and the influences from both European and Japanese art that inspired him. We also take a quick look at the modern theory that Van Gogh was murdered and what it says about our understanding of both him and his work.
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Great video
He was either religious or killed himself. Suicide is regarded as a terrible sin by the church. A devout believer would never insult God by killing himself.
And I don't see how an accident in which he gets killed is more sensational than shooting himself in the stomach at an odd angle, hiding his easel and canvas (!) and gun (!) and then crawling back only to take two days to die! There are many things that don't add up about the suicide theory. I mean: why shoot in the stomach? Don't people who want to shoot themselves go for the head? Why go out in the field, shoot himself and then crawl back if he wants to die? Why not stay there out in nature which he loved so much? Why repeatedly urging the others NOT to investigate his death any further? If it was suicide, there would be nothing to investigate. Why waste your last breath on telling people not to investigate?
The theory that a bully killed Vincent accidentally bears a selfless aspect that I would like to believe: He sees that the boy has killed him without actually meaning to. Although that boy has annoyed and tormented him, Vincent realizes that he himself can't be saved but he can ruin the boy's life… or save it, showing forgiveness and sacrificing his vengeange for giving the boy a second chance. If anything is Christian, that is!
We'll never know what really happened. But I think we shouldn't discard a provable theory just because we have grown accustomed to believing that Vincent had killed himself. And I don't think that the accident theory comes from Hollywood sensationalism or because "it makes a better story", but because there are several things around the suicide theory that are not logical. I mean: Why would a man who lives for his art go out in the field and hide his painting stuff before he kills himself? Wouldn't he want to be with his paints, brushes and pictures when he dies? But his painting stuff was never found nor the gun. If he really killed himself: Where did he leave these things? And why? If he was weakened by the wound and unable to carry them, then he just would have dropped them, leaving them in the open. But he didn't.
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Great video!
So glad I discovered this page. Great content
Where's Monet? Where's Cézanne?
great video, finally something that covers the actual contents of his paintings and his artistic journey
Moment I loved this channel: when you said you didn't want to waste our time with the basic story
That's knowing oneself
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good video
Thank you, you must be my favorite content Creator.
Really interesting video, thought the section showing the influence of Japanese art particularly in Starry Night was very well done.
this is the best one about vincent…thank you for this video 😊
…Excellent work…At point 22:36, you speak of Vincent's martyrdom [religious and yes spiritual] plus his 'self-harming' being prevalent in Vincent's demeanour. The comment regarding Self-Harm does tend to suggest the 'gunshot' as the clear indications of the loss of ego, self-esteem and confidence that sufferers often tested limitations of self-imposed suffering 'self-harming' at their peril…My life experiences and observations…Love always
Bravo. Well written, deep and thoughtful comment on how we do him a disservice by talking about his mental illness and death rather than the art itself. We've learned to sensationalize things due to how social media works and forgotten the arts they created
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you really gave dadaism a side-eye at the end lol
Your videos are amazing and have the potential to let people with no background in art history understand the brilliance of famous artists and their art. Happy to see more content, love your stuff <3
Great video! I very much appreciated that you stuck to artistic discourse over sensationalism and I learned some good things regarding art, technique and art material history here. I believe your videos would serve well in highschool and University studies regarding art.
Watched a video of a very interesting lecture on Van Gogh and his influence on the painters immediately following him. Here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzOt_QtEVgg&t=743s
Can Van Gogh's style be categorised/classified as Expressionist?
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Is too sad for me that not too much people see this kind of videos. This channel creat great videos with differents notions of art in them, i have read a lot of van gogh and by the way, even i loved before than i love now because exist another artist lest know but maybe so great as van gogh or any artist. But know more about art is always something we can apreciate it. Is never enough.
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This was absolutely great. Thank you Sir!!
I think this is the first time I've ever actually gotten a video out when I said I would, and all it took was a global pandemic. Like a lot of other people I'm out of work till this thing is over but at least for once I can get a good bit of YouTube stuff done. In all seriousness I hope everyone is doing well out there in these very strange times, stay safe and with any luck we'll be back to normal before you know it.
Today we're looking at Van Gogh, and yes I'm going with the "Goff" pronunciation, no matter what way I do it someone will be annoyed so I'll stick to what I know. Apologies to any Dutch viewers out there! I ended up cutting a lot from this in the interest of it not being an hour long, there's so much to cover with Van Gogh that you could be here all day. I've tried to keep it all somewhat interesting and relatively coherent , hopefully there's not too many mistakes this time but if you see any or I just said something stupid (as I am prone to) feel free to let me know, any feedback is helpful!
Next video will be an overview of Impressionism in a similar vein to the "what is abstract art" video I did ages ago. Turns out despite my dislike of that one people seem to find it useful, so in addition to our regular Understanding Modern Art series(which will continue with looks at Gauguin, Matisse, Duchamp and others in the near future) we will also be doing a series of "What is" videos that will explore topics and movements In the arts in more depth.