Another brilliantly unique take on a truly great artist from you. A TH-cam audience will catch up with you one day soon Ed, please don't change your method. I very much look forward to more. 👋
Oh my word!!! I have seldom enjoyed anything about Vincent as much as this! Have shared it, and saved to watch again and again. WOW! This is excellent. Thank you!
Thank you for another interesting topic. Your research is great, as I always seem to learn something new from your videos. 👍 And listening/watching blessfully took my mind off the currently pretty scary news... Van Gogh's story always touched me, because I suffer from depression myself and inevitably have to wonder, what this artist really went through. So many creative people suffer this way. I guess, if you can perceive intense beauty, then you're doomed to also perceive intense pain. It's a blessing and a curse. But despite his sad end, Van Gogh created beauty himself, and left that behind... If just everybody managed to do that in life, to leave something beautiful behind (and it doesn't have to be art), then the world would be a kinder place. 🌻 I will have to go and listen to Don McLean's song Vincent once again now. It's one of the few songs I can sing along without being totally out of tune. 😅
Beautiful comment thank you :) I'm really glad it brought some reflection and depth, and took your mind off the world :) Yes Van Gogh really touches alot of people because he seemed to struggle so much with himself, and yet simmered with such sparkling creative fires.
Thank you for taking the time to make such an interesting and personalized video about Vincent. I'm off to see what else you have on your channel now! :)
Johanna Bonger, Theo's widow, was in fact the one who made Vincent famous. We would have known him alright but Johanna made him the superstar that he is today. Her promoting and plugging him was relentless.
This was brilliant. Personally I think Vincent was bi-polar manic-depressive & committed suicide. He was also extremely sensitive & a genius painter. The greatest colorist of all time imho. Thank you so much for sharing this.
@@edwardcalcutt3417 I’m sure it did. Have you ever looked at his last painting, Tree Roots? I see his image in the upper right of the painting, green face & red beard lying amongst the tree roots. In my mind, his unconscious wish to be buried like his older infant brother Vincent. I’ve never read this anywhere, just what I see. Thanks again for your brilliant talk.
@@edwardcalcutt3417 Isn’t it? They’ve recently found the exact location where this was painted. I’ve never heard nor read anything re: this self-portrait but to my eyes, it’s as clear as day.
MsBonzodog Must have been quite a lot of work to translate so many letters. Most of the letters Vincent wrote to his brother were of course in their own native language Dutch. Only 30% were written in French I believe. And even some in Ebglish. Vinbcent had a tendency to, when he was in a foreign country like |France or England, to write in that language to make him learn that language better anbd faster. Did your friend translate the letters from the original versions in Dutch and French language or the already translated versions in French and English?
@@hansolo2121 hello. Sue translated the original versions of the letters written in French. A competition was held worldwide to find people able to do it and several people worked on the Dutch translation but she was judged to be the only person capable of translating the French letters.
Actually no. Vincent cut off his entiure ear!!! There is a medial diagram found that was drawn by the doctor who treated him immediately after the incident. Showing that the entire ear was cut off only a small portin of the lobe remained attached to Vincent's head.
How kind and generous you are with your energy, time, effort and focus; thank you!
I loved it! Thank you so much.This helps to understand Van Gogh on a much deeper level.
Another brilliantly unique take on a truly great artist from you. A TH-cam audience will catch up with you one day soon Ed, please don't change your method. I very much look forward to more. 👋
brilliant episode, thank you so much.
We visited the museum in Amsterdam today. I feel incredibly interested in his life and plight. Thank you for your commentary.
Oh my word!!! I have seldom enjoyed anything about Vincent as much as this! Have shared it, and saved to watch again and again.
WOW! This is excellent. Thank you!
Thank you!!
Love your content
Thank you for another interesting topic. Your research is great, as I always seem to learn something new from your videos. 👍
And listening/watching blessfully took my mind off the currently pretty scary news...
Van Gogh's story always touched me, because I suffer from depression myself and inevitably have to wonder, what this artist really went through. So many creative people suffer this way. I guess, if you can perceive intense beauty, then you're doomed to also perceive intense pain. It's a blessing and a curse. But despite his sad end, Van Gogh created beauty himself, and left that behind... If just everybody managed to do that in life, to leave something beautiful behind (and it doesn't have to be art), then the world would be a kinder place. 🌻
I will have to go and listen to Don McLean's song Vincent once again now. It's one of the few songs I can sing along without being totally out of tune. 😅
Beautiful comment thank you :) I'm really glad it brought some reflection and depth, and took your mind off the world :) Yes Van Gogh really touches alot of people because he seemed to struggle so much with himself, and yet simmered with such sparkling creative fires.
Bravo!
Can i use this audio for a tiktok audio. Only 20 seconds
From which book did you collect the paintings from with such description...I really want to read. Can you please help me with the name of the book
Great job! !
Thank you for taking the time to make such an interesting and personalized video about Vincent. I'm off to see what else you have on your channel now! :)
liked your vid
Can you please post more I don’t mind donating money 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Johanna Bonger, Theo's widow, was in fact the one who made Vincent famous. We would have known him alright but Johanna made him the superstar that he is today. Her promoting and plugging him was relentless.
This was brilliant. Personally I think Vincent was bi-polar manic-depressive & committed suicide. He was also extremely sensitive & a genius painter. The greatest colorist of all time imho. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Thanks Nancy. It seems that alcohol also fuelled and entrenched his depressive and self-destructive tendencies.
@@edwardcalcutt3417 I’m sure it did. Have you ever looked at his last painting, Tree Roots? I see his image in the upper right of the painting, green face & red beard lying amongst the tree roots. In my mind, his unconscious wish to be buried like his older infant brother Vincent. I’ve never read this anywhere, just what I see. Thanks again for your brilliant talk.
@@nancyblum12 I've never seen his face in it, but that's a poignant perspective and I'll look at the painting again :)
@@nancyblum12 I've just seen the face! That's really beautiful.
@@edwardcalcutt3417 Isn’t it? They’ve recently found the exact location where this was painted. I’ve never heard nor read anything re: this self-portrait but to my eyes, it’s as clear as day.
My dear friend Sue Dyson translated the letters in old French.
MsBonzodog Must have been quite a lot of work to translate so many letters. Most of the letters Vincent wrote to his brother were of course in their own native language Dutch. Only 30% were written in French I believe. And even some in Ebglish. Vinbcent had a tendency to, when he was in a foreign country like |France or England, to write in that language to make him learn that language better anbd faster. Did your friend translate the letters from the original versions in Dutch and French language or the already translated versions in French and English?
@@hansolo2121 hello. Sue translated the original versions of the letters written in French.
A competition was held worldwide to find people able to do it and several people worked on the Dutch translation but she was judged to be the only person capable of translating the French letters.
he cut the lobe off, not the full ear but well done and good commentary
Actually no. Vincent cut off his entiure ear!!! There is a medial diagram found that was drawn by the doctor who treated him immediately after the incident. Showing that the entire ear was cut off only a small portin of the lobe remained attached to Vincent's head.
@@hansolo2121 you are right, a woman called berkeley wrote a book called van goghs ear...youtube wont allow me to post the link
@@TheBobbymcd There is also a documentary with her about The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear.