The scholar says at the end that there are millions of stories in the world of art; what is more important for me is that he always tells them with a magistral dexterity. Thanks for that.
I read a well researched book on the famous ear being cut off. The author, Bernadette Murphy, says that aside from the fact Gauguin was going to abandon Vincent, he’d also received a letter from his brother, Theo, which said he was getting married. Vincent relied heavily on Theo’s financial support, and he was despondent at the notion that Theo would have a wife and may not be able to continue supporting him. And of course, then Gaugin announced he was leaving, and they quarrelled. It is a distressing episode to read about; Vincent lying in agony, all bloodied, on his bed. The police at first thought Gauguin had attacked him, but Gauguin was just as shocked at this turn of events as they were. The book, “Van Gogh’s Ear”, is well worth reading. Murphy, who lives in France and is fluent in French, did a lot of digging. She found records of who was living in Arles at the time he was there, the staff at the brothel, etc. I recommend it.
I did a bit of research and reading over a few years. In some art scholarly circles- Vincent apparently didn't cut at his own ear. During the argument with Gaugain - Vincent was partially slit on his ear in the tussle. Vincent was kept at bay as Gaugain had his fencing sword or similar. Gaugain then left having been attacked. Vincent left and bled at the ear all night at the brothel. Awoken by police next morning and lucky not to have perished that night. He told police he cut his own ear ie so as to not get his friend Gaugain into trouble. Vincent's characteristics were unpredictable but his honour of friendship would be so as to protect his friends regardless. Due to his poverty stricken life and misfortunes- he could always be the bearer of pain and doom. There is also the story of the menacing kids in Auvers whom were often jaunting Vincent as imitating Cowboys with Guns. Incidentally the kid who had shot him had kept silent all those years and eventually died Given the circumstances, he did not want to have his name tarnished as a killer as it would have been the demise of his family name in the village. Vincent did not want the kid to be blamed and then gone off to the dungeons Van Gogh personally took the self infliction as a kind of salvation. Tha pistol which was found a few years back didn't prove much. The police had no powder fragments on Vincent's fingers at the time of incident. It's a tragic chain of events leading nowadays to the vast intrigue into his life and his works. The early 20th century Dealers and Forgers were rife. In my humble opinion- Dr Gachet was the key downfall and eventual demise of Vincent's Slow breakdown. A consistency of frantic painting to pay for his therapy plus lead poisoning over months of exposure. The possible sabotage of the very attentive physician who in essence fast tracked the downfall with contaminated absinthe. Dr Gachet and his heirs also possessed a large stash of the last paintings. The Physician already knew Art Dealers. This isn't to say I'm right or more plausible. Just another viewpoint. If it weren't for Jo Bonger - the artworks may have been long lost forever. Sad and Melancholic Vincent had ran out of supplies in June 1890. There is one particular painting which reads to me as the artists way - a last curtain falling *His Writing on The Wall* Painted in 1890.
No. If you know the subject, you also know that his examples of Van Gogh paintings, are known forgeries accoring to experts. I was very impressed by Waldemar in the beginning, then I began to notice how careless he is with facts.
I have never heard that explanation for why he cut his ear off. It makes so much sense. And the Christ complex, thank you for an excellent perspective.
Looking through the comments, and I may have missed it, but no one seems to have caught that "a million stories in the city" is a reference to the last line of semi-documentary, The Naked City, which was then turned into a police/detective series for television. The line from that first film was “There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them.” Januszczak is having a bit of fun casting this film as a detective story, and just one of many out there.
@@artbeets5999 Thanks for your support. It is necessary for all decent human beings have a duty to try to get bullfighting stopped. Never mind arguments about national laws, culture, tradition, jobs, sports etc, all are irrelevant. There is no excuse for animal cruelty and an absolute necessity to get it stopped.
A better problem would be that the painting is a fake in the first place. The "other" bandaged portrait is true to his art style, the vivid colours and the clean quality of his face. Either way, Van Gogh's life was so tragic and miserable, yet his paintings, even the self portraits, were so vivid and full of life.
The bullfighting scene is so shocking. Mentally sick people enjoying the suffering and death of an innocent living being. I enjoyed the documentary until this scene but had to stop it.
What about all the amazing roman ruins in and around Arles? They are truly inspiring as well, but maybe not to him. I have never seen a painting by him of these.
So the question remains, how did Vinny have such a knowledge of Japanese prints? Well he apprenticed in his uncle Mauve's Art Gallery before he ended up in the Seminary as aCalvinist Minister like his father; The explanation about Vinny's self-amputating his ear[lobe] is really a profound interpretation; The mistake Gaugin made was leaving for Arles, but the even bigger mistake was thinking he would be "schooling" Vincent on how to paint. Gaugin learned very quickly that VanGogh had his own ideas, and he had talent.
Is there a possibility that Gauguin cut off the ear of Van Gogh during the fight and that this later was in such a psychotic state that he could not tell what really happened to the gendarmes and the doctor ?
I mean, its always possible. We are finding out new information about artists everyday. But i guess Because of Vincents schizophrenia and other mental illness's, they've decided he must have done it himself.. and with several ''witnesses'' arguing it was indeed him.
Human passions plus alcohol turned everything upside down. Vincent had big psychological problems from his youth. His failures with women obviously left deep scars in his mind. His talent was rewarded with recognition after he left this world. Thanks for an interesting presentation.
I love this series and I hoped this episode would be as good as all the rest, but the story of the ear, the “prostitute” (she wasn’t a prostitute) and Vincent’s motivations given here has been debunked. His behavior toward her may have been tinged with sexual longing, but it was primarily an episode in his long history of religious mania and his desire to give spiritual comfort. It is laid out in great detail in the well researched book Van Gogh’s Ear, a great read for anyone interested in his life and his last years. We owe it to Vincent to get it right.
As always when the Perspective is narrated by you . Like now of Van Gogh it was simply Excellent . The events , locations and people involved are depicted so nicely and explained intelligently by you. Thanks enjoyed the Art when told correctly.
Och ja ben misschien ook geen makke schaap blert wel eens wat maar tot op heden heb ik mijn pootjes keurig binnen boord gehouden, dus deze rammetje heeft niets misdaan dan alleen voor haar rechten opkomend en dat doet zij graag mondelings ,het liefst face to face 😂👉😇
I was taught at my primary school that Van Gogh was "insane" from migraines when he cut his ear of. I always thought that was weird because I have migraines myself, and that pain in distinctively in my eye and the area around it. My ears are fine during migraine. However, i never cared to look up the validity of that claim. It makes me wonder what else i was taught that is wrong.
School is about telling people WHAT TO THINK, omitting the things they don’t want you to knowing. Most importantly keeping people away from concept like HOW TO THINK.
I found his videos by accident I love watching these videos I Wonder if Mister Waldemar is interest in Art because of his education or his passion His name and last name sounds polish to me so probably he has Poland born parents ,wonder if he speaks polish language I love dark dutch art I am going to Netherlands 1 day Little did Van Gogh know that after his death so many years to come his painting will be most expensive painting and sold in milions! And I am watching all his videos
There is an alternate theory. The friend he got in a fight with Gauguin was a fencer. He may have slashed his ear with a sword when they got in a fight and Van Gogh made up the story so his friend wouldn't get arrested.
I thought the same, he certainly protected the person who shot him, the Christian principles of forgiveness and love he was brought up in, along with the distant grieving mother would be major factors
I like this new theory way more than a man slicing off his own ear. Gauguin being a swordsman is actually something that was unknown to me. More research needed. CHEERS
@@antidoteify het is net wie man voor gek wil verslijten , het is net zoiets als wie onschuldig is gooit de eerste steen, nu kan man Soebatten wat men wil over ,waarom werd die steen niet gegooid ? Omdat iedereen wel aan zonde beleving doet ? Of waren zij bang voor de meester himself ,ik denk het laatste wat denkt U ,ik zal het U uitleggen ,want toen de meester weg was gooiden zij tot op heden nog stenen ,plaatsen zij nog steeds mensen in hokken ,niets leuker dan anderen de maat te nemen dat noemen zij brave , of is het een gewoon kippen werk om op de pik orde hoogte te komen alles moet kunnen zelf uitroeien van anders denkenden kun je ook weer een vraag van maken waarom men andersdenkenden voor mad wil verslijten maar wat ik zo vreemd vind is wat is er relevant aan hoe het gebeurt is of door wie ,als men aan die steen denkt weet men het antwoord toch al VAN GOGH ,GOD,JESUS ANDERSDENKENDEN ,zonder kleur valt alles in het niets , dan is alles grauw zoals nu oorlog, Corona,apenpokken, gatver nergens nog kleur te zien zijn allemaal de apenboom in lang leve de muisgrijze apenpakken mooi afgeplakt met een kruisje en roepen met ons allen heil ,het lijkt ook nog veel op het oor die een van Jesus volgelingen bij een soldaat eraf hakte ,en ik denk dat van Gogh dacht als ik dat doe dan komt Jesus hem er weer het oor eraan zetten zo kan het ook geweest zijn toch ?
Daar in Arles hebben zij een heel groot slachterij neergezet was betaald uit Europees pot het kwam in beeld door dat iemand zo gek was om het te filmen hoe men dieren ( daar afslachten) misschien iets voor het nabije , woensdag gehakt dag ,zou van Gogh gehakt gelust hebben ? Potjandorie wat een vraag weer vandaag 🤔 of is het morgen pas aan het orde even de agenda erbij pakken 2021/2030 slachterij vraag 😱 de schreeuw van Klimt
No doubt borrowed from the sign-off line of the long running TV series, starting in 1958: "Naked City", which Januszczak probably watched when he was a young child?
22:31 Okay, wait, that's a really biased viewpoint. What we've actually just been told is this: Vincent threatened one of his friends with a knife (which would be assault with a weapon btw), and then when Gaugin scared him off, Vincent traumatised a poor prostitute by giving her a piece of his own mutilated body. Now, if that had happened today, both Gaugin and the prostitute would have got a restraining order against Vincent, but back in those days, the town realised his behaviour was threatening and dangerous to other people, and ran him off. And friends? Apart from the fact that Vincent basically betrayed his friend by assaulting him with a knife, he started arguments with everyone around him, and was so volatile that people were afraid and avoided him. So, to the town he would actually be known as an angry, argumentative man who attacked someone and terrified a prostitute. So, rather than "Arles loves Van Gogh now but they were cruel to him back then" it's actually "if he had been alive today, the town would have had him committed".
Misschien is het in overweging te nemen veel van die gegoede burgerij in opname te nemen ,want zie wat nu gebeurt zij prikken met naalden 💉 en worden ziek ervan ja zelfs krankjorum zo staat het geschreven en gaan dood 💀 ja de goede burgerij springen blij als de koe verdronken is maar laat voor zich allen de Hel wagenwijd openstaan 🧟♀️🧟🧟♂️😷😷😷🌡💉💊🧬🦠🩸🚿🔬🔮
Great story but this portrait is thought by many to be a fake unlike version with pipe. The Sunflowers shown, now in Japan, is also believed to be fake.
Towards the very end I think he veers into extreme conjecture when he suggests the japanese print and the three Marys, and the ear...I think that is credible, in a way.
I think the narrator is reading too much into the symbolism of the easel and the Japanese print in the background of the painting of Van Gogh with the bandaged ear? They were just items in his room! It makes a good story! I can see the connection of the ear and bullfighting!
It would have been interesting to know more about his childhood because that seems to be the source of his oddness, I can imagine abuse by strict religious parents like the whole he loves his son must beat the sin from him and that sort of stuff, I can see that is why he had a thing for hurting himself later.
@21:00 Notice the female figure sitting. Her head is turned in the same direction as Van Gogh's face. Looking a little closer at the sitting girl there is also a white brush stroke only on the right side of her face. The same as on Van Gogh's face. The girl in the background, also with a stick (paint brush?) in her mouth, and more interesting, also has a white brush-stroke (bandage ) on her left cheek. Why only a stick in just the two females: the one in the front and and very back, but not the girl in the middle? Is the girl in the middle Van Gogh's emotional love focus? The painting on the easel shows a blurred sunflower which might depict Van Gogh's artistic subject interest's, but not shown the same interest by his acquaintances. Why the crane with it's beak up and open as to display the motion of speech? Was there a little bird speaking in Van Gogh's ear. Playing with his mind? And the crane's beak at the level of Van Gogh's left (good ear). I believe this was symbolically painted by Van Gogh to symbolize his shunned experience's with women in the brothel. Did he fancy an Asian there? Humm?
Look, I know something about Rent-A-Date, "Keep this like a treasure" is hearsay. What he probably said was : " You wanted an arm and a leg. Here -. Have an ear!"
Nee zo zit het volgens mij niet , hij kreeg van haar niet de aandacht en iemand anders blijkbaar wel, met het oor die de stierenvechter afsneed en weggaf aan iemand die speciaal was op de tribune ,deed hij hetzelfde als de stierenvechter en gaf zijn eigen oor aan die speciale iemand die ondanks zijn oor nu waarschijnlijk helemaal geen aandacht van hem wilde maar dat wil niet zeggen dat het zo gegaan is 🥺👉🦻
Like you say, Vincent was nuts. But did you ever or will you ever leave anything behind in this world that was worth more than what he left behind? If you have then you can say that you painted was greater than what he ever did So how come l have never heard of you, or anything you have ever done let alone painted? Do you even know how to hold a paintbrush, let alone what to do with a piece of blank paper?
@@carolineoconnor7685 thank you. Beautiful response to a show of arrogance!! Van Gogh wasn't "nuts." He wasn't well, had issues to deal with and still created with all the love and grace he held in his mind. It wasn't because of his suffering that he had made these works of art, but his determination and focus on recovery and the light at the end of the tunnel is what motivated him to paint. In hoping that things will get better, in channeling all the parts of himself mixed with his environment to depict a stunning array of works that will always have a million stories to share in each stroke and splash of color he has left behind.
I really do wonder about the mental suitability for parenthood amongst those people who choose to take their children to see such barbarity! I agree with you. It must be stopped!
I don’t see any glorification in bullfights, dog fights... cockfighting and the likes. Seeing vulnerable animals suffering cruelty inflicted on them for the sake of entertainment and money is shameful. It should be banned and should be deemed not cultural at all. It’s a cruel world and ... there will be a judgement day for all of mankind.
Poor Van Gogh , his pain must have been desperate, the facial nerves afire with electricity, shooting, flaring the bones of the inside ear, had he access to morphine and opium, I would say yes, or did he martyr himself to the pain transferring its energy into color and light with stroke that could only be imagined by God as it ran from the edges curling like waves on a descending sea, much like his facial pain, and not forgetting as he lost teeth to decay he fought against it too, asking God where was he that he had to endure such when he knew his own brilliance , as it played out on canvas in masterful colors of yellow and orange,
I think he chose the women in the painting to show that they long for him knowing that it's not true. But with someone who wants something bad enough if it doesn't happen, work it out yourself!! 🎃👍🌞
Mr. Januszczak, is there evidence in Art History records supporting your suggestion that the Van Gogh boats washed up onto shore were intended by Vincent to be analogues for Mary Magdalene, or that he was at all aware of such a notion? I do not mean this as criticism, but this is all new to me. Cutting off his ear as analogue to bullfighting in which van Gogh is the bull, makes sense. Anything you would like to provide as evidence of his intention? Finally, perhaps van Gogh compared and identified himself with Jesus of Nazareth, but not of Jesus Christ? I am a devotee of Jesus of Nazareth, but not of Jesus Christ. For me, divinity is theater; divinity is business, the business of religion in which I no longer participate. Why would it be unacceptable for van Gogh, or any mortal, to find resonance in his personal life with the suffering of Jesus of Nazareth? Resonance implies emotional bond.
Hey, Vincent deserves more than that "theory" about the motivation to have cut his ear. Oh my!! Bullfighting!? I know this video is just a "theory" about what happened that night ...But, Bullfighting?
It could be an interesting sort of symbolism. For example, if Gauguin stole Van Gogh's "significant udder" from him (to stick with the bovine theme), he could cut off his ear and say to Gauguin: Here you go, you deserve this, you killed me with great artistry!
Not everyone knows. Use metaphor carefully. This first time I am hearing about his name let alone knowing that his great painting. Well I am not expert or fan of art but be careful when we choose to convey message to world when it's so wide.
The scholar says at the end that there are millions of stories in the world of art; what is more important for me is that he always tells them with a magistral dexterity. Thanks for that.
I read a well researched book on the famous ear being cut off. The author, Bernadette Murphy, says that aside from the fact Gauguin was going to abandon Vincent, he’d also received a letter from his brother, Theo, which said he was getting married. Vincent relied heavily on Theo’s financial support, and he was despondent at the notion that Theo would have a wife and may not be able to continue supporting him. And of course, then Gaugin announced he was leaving, and they quarrelled. It is a distressing episode to read about; Vincent lying in agony, all bloodied, on his bed. The police at first thought Gauguin had attacked him, but Gauguin was just as shocked at this turn of events as they were. The book, “Van Gogh’s Ear”, is well worth reading. Murphy, who lives in France and is fluent in French, did a lot of digging. She found records of who was living in Arles at the time he was there, the staff at the brothel, etc. I recommend it.
All streaks of brilliance has it own madness plus mental illness. Quite unfortunate.
Cops thought Vincent did it because that is what Gauguin told them.
I did a bit of research and reading over a few years.
In some art scholarly circles-
Vincent apparently didn't cut at his own ear. During the argument with Gaugain - Vincent was partially slit on his ear in the tussle.
Vincent was kept at bay as Gaugain had his fencing sword or similar.
Gaugain then left having been attacked.
Vincent left and bled at the ear all night at the brothel.
Awoken by police next morning and lucky not to have perished that night.
He told police he cut his own ear
ie so as to not get his friend Gaugain into trouble.
Vincent's characteristics were unpredictable but his honour of friendship would be so as to protect his friends regardless.
Due to his poverty stricken life and misfortunes- he could always be the bearer of pain and doom.
There is also the story of the menacing kids in Auvers whom were often jaunting Vincent as imitating Cowboys with Guns.
Incidentally the kid who had shot him had kept silent all those years and eventually died
Given the circumstances, he did not want to have his name tarnished as a killer as it would have been the demise of his family name in the village.
Vincent did not want the kid to be blamed and then gone off to the dungeons
Van Gogh personally took the self infliction as a kind of salvation.
Tha pistol which was found a few years back didn't prove much.
The police had no powder fragments on Vincent's fingers at the time of incident.
It's a tragic chain of events leading nowadays to the vast intrigue into his life and his works.
The early 20th century Dealers and Forgers were rife.
In my humble opinion-
Dr Gachet was the key downfall and eventual demise of Vincent's
Slow breakdown.
A consistency of frantic painting to pay for his therapy plus lead poisoning over months of exposure.
The possible sabotage of the very attentive physician who in essence fast tracked the downfall with contaminated absinthe.
Dr Gachet and his heirs also possessed a large stash of the last paintings.
The Physician already knew Art Dealers.
This isn't to say I'm right or more plausible.
Just another viewpoint.
If it weren't for Jo Bonger - the artworks may have been long lost forever.
Sad and Melancholic
Vincent had ran out of supplies in June 1890.
There is one particular painting which reads to me as the artists way - a last curtain falling
*His Writing on The Wall*
Painted in 1890.
This is THE MOST OUTSTANDING series! It has completely changed my perspective, so brilliantly well done. An absolutely amazing series! Thank you!
No. If you know the subject, you also know that his examples of Van Gogh paintings, are known forgeries accoring to experts. I was very impressed by Waldemar in the beginning, then I began to notice how careless he is with facts.
@@Stroheim333 can you provide more details and sources for the forgeries?
Waldemar is such a wonderful storyteller! I love his films. I have never seen such interesting points of view and similar research as his.
I have never heard that explanation for why he cut his ear off. It makes so much sense. And the Christ complex, thank you for an excellent perspective.
I love this guy the way he walk talk and speak he is so over the top.. even the editing is art by itself 😅
Thank you for a wonderful video . You drew all the strands together. Your teaching is remarkable.
A number of experts believe that the Courtauld's self-portrait is a fake. Opinion is sharply divided. Great video. Thank you!
Looking through the comments, and I may have missed it, but no one seems to have caught that "a million stories in the city" is a reference to the last line of semi-documentary, The Naked City, which was then turned into a police/detective series for television. The line from that first film was “There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them.” Januszczak is having a bit of fun casting this film as a detective story, and just one of many out there.
Yes - we of a certain age get it...
Another excellent insightful documentary full of detail. My only complaint is the inclusion of the disgusting bullfighting scenes.
Agreed. Disgusting and unnecessary to show.
@@artbeets5999 Thanks for your support.
It is necessary for all decent human beings have a duty to try to get bullfighting stopped. Never mind arguments about national laws, culture, tradition, jobs, sports etc, all are irrelevant.
There is no excuse for animal cruelty and an absolute necessity to get it stopped.
I also agree. Absolutely barbaric, cruel and disgusting on every level.
Turned my stomach too 😢 poor animal😢
I agree about the bullfighting scenes. Things that are happening in the world should not be shown on the Internet!
A better problem would be that the painting is a fake in the first place. The "other" bandaged portrait is true to his art style, the vivid colours and the clean quality of his face. Either way, Van Gogh's life was so tragic and miserable, yet his paintings, even the self portraits, were so vivid and full of life.
The bullfighting scene is so shocking. Mentally sick people enjoying the suffering and death of an innocent living being. I enjoyed the documentary until this scene but had to stop it.
lol ok
You know what they say about People who enjoy watching animals being tortured .
What about all the amazing roman ruins in and around Arles? They are truly inspiring as well, but maybe not to him. I have never seen a painting by him of these.
So the question remains, how did Vinny have such a knowledge of Japanese prints? Well he apprenticed in his uncle Mauve's Art Gallery before he ended up in the Seminary as aCalvinist Minister like his father; The explanation about Vinny's self-amputating his ear[lobe] is really a profound interpretation; The mistake Gaugin made was leaving for Arles, but the even bigger mistake was thinking he would be "schooling" Vincent on how to paint. Gaugin learned very quickly that VanGogh had his own ideas, and he had talent.
The earlobe was all that was left of his ear.
He bought the Japanese prints from Bing's shop in Paris for almost nothing and quickly amassed a huge collection.
@@renelevaillant6601 How funny!!! I was just finished watching the last installment, and learned that!!! --11 mos. later!!!!
My background is not art. This guy has made it accessible and alive to me (rather late in life!).
That's genius for you: cut through the rigamarole to the heart of the matter. Bring out something everyone can understand. And be moved by.
Mel Mo - better late than never and now you've got the time to absorb it all.
this channel deserves much more views and attention :) hope you get it in the future :)
Yes, but not many people are into art, at least to this extent.
@@expromanticart6491 I have no artistic ability and precious little art education, but Perspective and Waldemar are fascinating and superb.
Thank you for your wonderful presentation and discussions. Excellent !
Such a profound story about a great person!
Is there a possibility that Gauguin cut off the ear of Van Gogh during the fight and that this later was in such a psychotic state that he could not tell what really happened to the gendarmes and the doctor ?
Gaugin was Vincent's only friend (aside from Theo, who was far away). It is plausible Vincent deliberately covered for Gaugin.
I mean, its always possible. We are finding out new information about artists everyday. But i guess Because of Vincents schizophrenia and other mental illness's, they've decided he must have done it himself.. and with several ''witnesses'' arguing it was indeed him.
What a great story. Watch to the end. It's worth it.
the end? is there one more episode, i wanta see the crows and he shoots himself. the best pic he made was the crows.
I hate bull fighting. It disgusts me. But the documentary is brilliant as always with him.
Ik vecht niet vrede is mij lief Art brengt het aan en ik mag af en toe de dotjes plaatsen zo vul je elkaar aan om een beter beeld te krijgen 😲
Brilliant, Waldemar, brilliant!
this is brilliant. tq so much for taking effort and making this video.
Human passions plus alcohol turned everything upside down. Vincent had big psychological problems from his youth. His failures with women obviously left deep scars in his mind. His talent was rewarded with recognition after he left this world. Thanks for an interesting presentation.
they knew a schizoid when they saw him.
@@bobs5596 Don’t be an ass.
I love this series and I hoped this episode would be as good as all the rest, but the story of the ear, the “prostitute” (she wasn’t a prostitute) and Vincent’s motivations given here has been debunked. His behavior toward her may have been tinged with sexual longing, but it was primarily an episode in his long history of religious mania and his desire to give spiritual comfort. It is laid out in great detail in the well researched book Van Gogh’s Ear, a great read for anyone interested in his life and his last years. We owe it to Vincent to get it right.
As always when the Perspective is narrated by you . Like now of Van Gogh it was simply Excellent . The events , locations and people involved are depicted so nicely and explained intelligently by you. Thanks enjoyed the Art when told correctly.
What a fabulous documentary. Love this guy and his amazing insights.
I am such a huge fan of this channel!!!!! Mastery!!!
Thank you, Waldemer. This was enlightening, though sad a story it is. 💐
Most interesting talk about my favourite painter🌹
Fabulous presentation! Thanks so much for your excellent work and insights...
Another delightful scenic journey with Van Gogh and Narrator, the finest ,,,,
Preacher's kids have wild reputations and there is some truth to it.
Och ja ben misschien ook geen makke schaap blert wel eens wat maar tot op heden heb ik mijn pootjes keurig binnen boord gehouden, dus deze rammetje heeft niets misdaan dan alleen voor haar rechten opkomend en dat doet zij graag mondelings ,het liefst face to face 😂👉😇
I think I'm falling for this guy.
There are several different conjectures on what happened with Van Gogh regarding his ear and his death. Who knows which one is accurate?
Probably the man who has studied it, obviously deeply enough to make a video about it that is extremely well put together....I would imagine
@@ndavis7789 There are several of those, as well as several published authors on the topic.
Wow. Very interesting and informative.😀
Great video as always 😊
I was taught at my primary school that Van Gogh was "insane" from migraines when he cut his ear of. I always thought that was weird because I have migraines myself, and that pain in distinctively in my eye and the area around it. My ears are fine during migraine. However, i never cared to look up the validity of that claim. It makes me wonder what else i was taught that is wrong.
You believe anything your spoon fed.
School is about telling people WHAT TO THINK, omitting the things they don’t want you to knowing.
Most importantly keeping people away from concept like HOW TO THINK.
Always enjoy his commentaries -- thank you!
Nick van der Leek has written a book , “ The Murder of Vincent Van Gogh “.
I found his videos by accident
I love watching these videos
I Wonder if Mister Waldemar is interest in Art because of his education or his passion
His name and last name sounds polish to me so probably he has Poland born parents ,wonder if he speaks polish language
I love dark dutch art
I am going to Netherlands 1 day
Little did Van Gogh know that after his death so many years to come his painting will be most expensive painting and sold in milions!
And I am watching all his videos
There is an alternate theory. The friend he got in a fight with Gauguin was a fencer. He may have slashed his ear with a sword when they got in a fight and Van Gogh made up the story so his friend wouldn't get arrested.
could be, good therory, a better take than the usual pitty for a mad man.
I thought the same, he certainly protected the person who shot him, the Christian principles of forgiveness and love he was brought up in, along with the distant grieving mother would be major factors
I like this new theory way more than a man slicing off his own ear. Gauguin being a swordsman is actually something that was unknown to me. More research needed. CHEERS
@@antidoteify Great compassion there, pal.
@@antidoteify het is net wie man voor gek wil verslijten , het is net zoiets als wie onschuldig is gooit de eerste steen, nu kan man Soebatten wat men wil over ,waarom werd die steen niet gegooid ? Omdat iedereen wel aan zonde beleving doet ? Of waren zij bang voor de meester himself ,ik denk het laatste wat denkt U ,ik zal het U uitleggen ,want toen de meester weg was gooiden zij tot op heden nog stenen ,plaatsen zij nog steeds mensen in hokken ,niets leuker dan anderen de maat te nemen dat noemen zij brave , of is het een gewoon kippen werk om op de pik orde hoogte te komen alles moet kunnen zelf uitroeien van anders denkenden kun je ook weer een vraag van maken waarom men andersdenkenden voor mad wil verslijten maar wat ik zo vreemd vind is wat is er relevant aan hoe het gebeurt is of door wie ,als men aan die steen denkt weet men het antwoord toch al VAN GOGH ,GOD,JESUS ANDERSDENKENDEN ,zonder kleur valt alles in het niets , dan is alles grauw zoals nu oorlog, Corona,apenpokken, gatver nergens nog kleur te zien zijn allemaal de apenboom in lang leve de muisgrijze apenpakken mooi afgeplakt met een kruisje en roepen met ons allen heil ,het lijkt ook nog veel op het oor die een van Jesus volgelingen bij een soldaat eraf hakte ,en ik denk dat van Gogh dacht als ik dat doe dan komt Jesus hem er weer het oor eraan zetten zo kan het ook geweest zijn toch ?
This video was so great. Really insightful to his life there in Arles
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Daar in Arles hebben zij een heel groot slachterij neergezet was betaald uit Europees pot het kwam in beeld door dat iemand zo gek was om het te filmen hoe men dieren ( daar afslachten) misschien iets voor het nabije , woensdag gehakt dag ,zou van Gogh gehakt gelust hebben ? Potjandorie wat een vraag weer vandaag 🤔 of is het morgen pas aan het orde even de agenda erbij pakken 2021/2030 slachterij vraag 😱 de schreeuw van Klimt
Wow. There are a million stories in the world of art. This has been just one of them.
No doubt borrowed from the sign-off line of the long running TV series, starting in 1958: "Naked City", which Januszczak probably watched when he was a young child?
I hope that heaven received Vincent with healing and comfort for his soul.
You are amazing thank you and your team
22:31 Okay, wait, that's a really biased viewpoint. What we've actually just been told is this: Vincent threatened one of his friends with a knife (which would be assault with a weapon btw), and then when Gaugin scared him off, Vincent traumatised a poor prostitute by giving her a piece of his own mutilated body.
Now, if that had happened today, both Gaugin and the prostitute would have got a restraining order against Vincent, but back in those days, the town realised his behaviour was threatening and dangerous to other people, and ran him off.
And friends? Apart from the fact that Vincent basically betrayed his friend by assaulting him with a knife, he started arguments with everyone around him, and was so volatile that people were afraid and avoided him.
So, to the town he would actually be known as an angry, argumentative man who attacked someone and terrified a prostitute.
So, rather than "Arles loves Van Gogh now but they were cruel to him back then" it's actually "if he had been alive today, the town would have had him committed".
Hoe kun je iemand bedreigen als je het in je eigen huis iets gezegd hebt ( misschien meegeluisterd ?)
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Great story but this portrait is thought by many to be a fake unlike version with pipe. The Sunflowers shown, now in Japan, is also believed to be fake.
The Sunflowers in Japan certainly is a fake. It looks all wrong and Vincent does not mention it in his letters to Theo.
Very interesting thank you
Towards the very end I think he veers into extreme conjecture when he suggests the japanese print and the three Marys, and the ear...I think that is credible, in a way.
So many ads! Ruining a sublime subject matter !
I think the narrator is reading too much into the symbolism of the easel and the Japanese print in the background of the painting of Van Gogh with the bandaged ear? They were just items in his room! It makes a good story! I can see the connection of the ear and bullfighting!
Is it true Vincent ate his paint or licked his brushes?
Poor guy. If it wasn't for bad luck, he wouldn't have no luck at all.
It would have been interesting to know more about his childhood because that seems to be the source of his oddness, I can imagine abuse by strict religious parents like the whole he loves his son must beat the sin from him and that sort of stuff, I can see that is why he had a thing for hurting himself later.
Brilliant! There's just no way that he could be wrong.
Seriously? Are you being sarcastic?
Good vid on our greatest artist but I heard that Gauguin might have cut off Vincent's ear with a knive.
Cool
Is it a mirroring picture, was it his left or right ear ???
@21:00 Notice the female figure sitting. Her head is turned in the same direction as Van Gogh's face. Looking a little closer at the sitting girl there is also a white brush stroke only on the right side of her face. The same as on Van Gogh's face. The girl in the background, also with a stick (paint brush?) in her mouth, and more interesting, also has a white brush-stroke (bandage ) on her left cheek. Why only a stick in just the two females: the one in the front and and very back, but not the girl in the middle? Is the girl in the middle Van Gogh's emotional love focus? The painting on the easel shows a blurred sunflower which might depict Van Gogh's artistic subject interest's, but not shown the same interest by his acquaintances. Why the crane with it's beak up and open as to display the motion of speech? Was there a little bird speaking in Van Gogh's ear. Playing with his mind? And the crane's beak at the level of Van Gogh's left (good ear). I believe this was symbolically painted by Van Gogh to symbolize his shunned experience's with women in the brothel. Did he fancy an Asian there? Humm?
"He was despised, despised and rejected" says the music from Handel's Messiah at the outset of the video.
This was an amazing documentary on the painting. But it turns out the painting is suspected to be a fake.
WOW! This video deserves 280,000 LIKES not 2,800.
I already knew about this my primary school art teacher told us
Look, I know something about Rent-A-Date, "Keep this like a treasure" is hearsay. What he probably said was : " You wanted an arm and a leg. Here -. Have an ear!"
Nee zo zit het volgens mij niet , hij kreeg van haar niet de aandacht en iemand anders blijkbaar wel, met het oor die de stierenvechter afsneed en weggaf aan iemand die speciaal was op de tribune ,deed hij hetzelfde als de stierenvechter en gaf zijn eigen oor aan die speciale iemand die ondanks zijn oor nu waarschijnlijk helemaal geen aandacht van hem wilde maar dat wil niet zeggen dat het zo gegaan is 🥺👉🦻
Ok, we have determined that Vincent was nuts. We just never quite knew how nuts.
Like you say, Vincent was nuts. But did you ever or will you ever leave anything behind in this world that was worth more than what he left behind? If you have then you can say that you painted was greater than what he ever did
So how come l have never heard of you, or anything you have ever done let alone painted? Do you even know how to hold a paintbrush, let alone what to do with a piece of blank paper?
@@carolineoconnor7685 thank you. Beautiful response to a show of arrogance!! Van Gogh wasn't "nuts." He wasn't well, had issues to deal with and still created with all the love and grace he held in his mind. It wasn't because of his suffering that he had made these works of art, but his determination and focus on recovery and the light at the end of the tunnel is what motivated him to paint. In hoping that things will get better, in channeling all the parts of himself mixed with his environment to depict a stunning array of works that will always have a million stories to share in each stroke and splash of color he has left behind.
Walden are, I have missed your art shows on t.v.
Who painted the 'Penitent Magdalene' shown at 11:45?
Van Gogh seems to be the artist everyone knows about. But has anyone ever understood him?
He was mentally deranged and so it’s doubtful if anyone understood him apart from his brother?
Bull fighting is a sick and twisted crime, for the benefit of sick and twisted people.
I really do wonder about the mental suitability for parenthood amongst those people who choose to take their children to see such barbarity! I agree with you. It must be stopped!
I don’t see any glorification in bullfights, dog fights... cockfighting and the likes. Seeing vulnerable animals suffering cruelty inflicted on them for the sake of entertainment and money is shameful. It should be banned and should be deemed not cultural at all. It’s a cruel world and ... there will be a judgement day for all of mankind.
Poor Van Gogh , his pain must have been desperate, the facial nerves afire with electricity, shooting, flaring the bones of the inside ear, had he access to morphine and opium, I would say yes, or did he martyr himself to the pain transferring its energy into color and light with stroke that could only be imagined by God as it ran from the edges curling like waves on a descending sea, much like his facial pain, and not forgetting as he lost teeth to decay he fought against it too, asking God where was he that he had to endure such when he knew his own brilliance , as it played out on canvas in masterful colors of yellow and orange,
One day Rachel asked Vincent to lend an ear to her problems, Vincent being who he was, was only too willing to.
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Have the proper authorities ever questioned Mike Tyson regarding his whereabouts around the time of the incident?
I already know why he cut off his ear cause of depression
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He knew more than what we give him credit for, a refreshing doco nonetheless!
I think he chose the women in the painting to show that they long for him knowing that it's not true. But with someone who wants something bad enough if it doesn't happen, work it out yourself!! 🎃👍🌞
Mr. Januszczak, is there evidence in Art History records supporting your suggestion that the Van Gogh boats washed up onto shore were intended by Vincent to be analogues for Mary Magdalene, or that he was at all aware of such a notion? I do not mean this as criticism, but this is all new to me.
Cutting off his ear as analogue to bullfighting in which van Gogh is the bull, makes sense. Anything you would like to provide as evidence of his intention?
Finally, perhaps van Gogh compared and identified himself with Jesus of Nazareth, but not of Jesus Christ? I am a devotee of Jesus of Nazareth, but not of Jesus Christ. For me, divinity is theater; divinity is business, the business of religion in which I no longer participate. Why would it be unacceptable for van Gogh, or any mortal, to find resonance in his personal life with the suffering of Jesus of Nazareth? Resonance implies emotional bond.
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Apparently, this painting is considered a fake by many in the know.
There's nothing saying Mary was a prostitute!! I'm glad he saidit was a myth
The more I hear this guy talk about van gogh, the more I think he had something like borderline personality disorder.
The host is ten years older than in the last episode
Well little He knows that his paintings would sold in millions ,
I I learnt all about this guy when I was at school doing art ones
Hey, Vincent deserves more than that "theory" about the motivation to have cut his ear. Oh my!! Bullfighting!? I know this video is just a "theory" about what happened that night ...But, Bullfighting?
It could be an interesting sort of symbolism. For example, if Gauguin stole Van Gogh's "significant udder" from him (to stick with the bovine theme), he could cut off his ear and say to Gauguin: Here you go, you deserve this, you killed me with great artistry!
All he made within 10 years. 🤗
I can see why people get obsessed w him.
fantastic
Infamous = wicked; abominable
Vincent was the reincarnation of Jesus.
Earth without art is just EH
18:55 'and look! there's Marie again"
has no mouth/ears or features.
He was tired of listening
Well he took her literally. 😂
Not everyone knows.
Use metaphor carefully.
This first time I am hearing about his name let alone knowing that his great painting.
Well I am not expert or fan of art but be careful when we choose to convey message to world when it's so wide.
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The Catholic church actually dropped they teaching.....
Van Gogh was a weeb……. Yep that’s all I Have to say