How Van Gogh Painted Symphonies in Colour
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Vincent Van Gogh's paintings are some of the most recognisable in the history of art. They have, naturally, been analysed extensively but very few people have mentioned how his work relates to music. This is particularly surprising given how much he references music in his letters. He talks about symphonies in colour, compares his work to composers and regularly mentions the music of Richard Wagner, a composer who had reached celebrity status as a modernist and visionary in the 19th century. In this essay, I look at the ways music influenced Van Gogh's work and life, and how we can think about his paintings differently by looking through the lens of music.
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FURTHER READING/RESEARCH
The letters - Vincent van Gogh (facsimiles, translations etc...): vangoghletters.org/vg/letters....
Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow: www.amazon.co.uk/Van-Gogh-Mus...
MUSIC
John Adams - Common tones in simple time: • Common Tones in Simple...
Unsuk Chin - Violin Concerto (Mouvement lll): • Violin Concerto, Mouve...
Clint Mansell - "Five Sunflowers In A Vase" (Loving Vincent OST): • Clint Mansell - "Five ...
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Symphony No. 6, "Vincentiana": I. Starry Night: • Symphony No. 6, "Vince...
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D Major: IV. Passacaglia open.spotify.com/track/1midPn... 
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Wow! That was one of the best video essays I've ever seen. Very well edited and very well narrated. Wonderful job
Thank you so much Jason! I really enjoyed putting this one together.
Yes! he deserves more recognition!
Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Splendid work - keep it going
Thank you. I will keep going!
Had no idea Van Gogh was so interested and connected to music in his artwork. Super cool.
Love that writing foley, i.e. 0:07
It is very cool. Also, I'm pleased you liked the sound effect. I was quite pleased with that! It was very satisfying to edit.
Van Gogh is one of the very few artists that get better as I get older. Never heard a sound looking at his work, though. I would see "hearing" in this context as appreciating the ephemeral quality that holds it all together: mood, scene, rhythm of strokes, and play of colors... But I suppose others might hear something. I don't need to. The visual pleasure is enough.
Fantastic editing. A+ work!!!
Lovely, I can't believe I waited so long to watch it. Thanx for this beautiful video!!!!
Your videos are so full of life, thank you for uploading them.
Congratulations for this wonderful essay! And thank you very much for sharing. I find it very interesting.
This is actually a fantastic channel. So happy I found it! Great vid
Thank you! I'm very glad you found my channel too!
Right on! Van Gogh’s evocations are not only colorful, but also captivate us because they are highly textured (impasto) paintings that can optically excite other senses in us as well such as (haptic) touch.
I am beyond awed by the quality of this video essay. Watching this for free feels like a crime. Thank you for making this
This video is just marvelous! So well done and written beautifully. Music and color, it is a topic very close to my heart. Feel so inspired now, I'll now go on and watch all the other videos in this channel. To the maker: Thank you!!! ♥
Awesome! What a beautiful essay. Thank you so much
I am obsessed with your videos!
The colour contrast is absolutely musical he was a true emotional and artistic genius only one ever! Again vibrational feel with emotion and expressed onto paper the fine line between realism and abstract very much like the honesty of how children produce art the honesty of the emotion and how they are merged always makes me feel absolutely the music never silenced fascinating
Loved the video as always!
Thanks Max!
What a gorgeous video. Thank you so so so so much for your work on these videos. My day always brightens when I see that new one has been uploaded!
Thank you so much Cullen. I am incredibly pleased you're enjoying them. I've been so uplifted by the responses to my videos, so thank you!
This is the best video on youtube ! Beautiful and inspiring. Thank you !
Thank you so much Brachemi!
Wow! You deserve more subscribers and viewers!
Thank you Nayra!
Thank you so much! This video and Kandinsky's are wonderful! I am a high school art teacher and an art history nerd and I will keep listening...
Thank you Melissa! I'm really glad you're enjoying my art history videos! I've got a least two more planned...
@@ListeningIn Looking forward to more videos! I have been addicted to Kahn Academy. You are more interdisciplinary and add science and math! I will probably show your Kandinsky and Van Gogh videos to my students!
Thanks from a Dutchman for working on the 'gh'!
I never appreciated or ¨Understood¨ Mondrian until I heard someone connect his works to Jazz. I think that would make a fabulous essay.
Great work!
Thank you!
Loved this video, since Van Gogh is one of my favorites but your video on Kandisky was simply amazing, even though I’m not a fan on the abstract your video has pushed to know more about it! Thanks
Wow, thank you!
Wonderful, thank you
My pleasure!
Brilliant!!
Congratulations on your work.
I’ve always found fascinating the relationship between Piet Mondrian, Alexander Calder and Edgard Varèse, I think you might find it interesting as well
Thank you! I've read about that relationship before, but I've definitely been meaning to find out more. Have you got a book that you might recommend?
Listening In you can only find it in separate books, Calder talking about how he was inspired by Piet’s paintings to sculpt his mobiles, and Varèse about how Calder’s mobiles inspired his music. However, the interview “Edgard Varèse on Music and Art: A Conversation between Varèse and Alcopley” is a great starting point
Ah - Ok. Thank you. I will definitely start with the Varèse interview. I was actually going to do a whole thesis on Varèse and his work (especially in relation to science and music), so I'm sure I will enjoy this!
Listening In , glad I could help, it’s really special music! Again congratulations on your channel, you’ve been raising the bar the last couple of months.
This was awesome man, great work! I didn’t know Van Gogh was so interested in music. But it makes sense in the same way Debussy was interested in art
Gday mate!! I find your videos/essays fantastic... Thanks for sharing.
Heaps of work, investigating, animating, uploading ufffff!
By the end you state that if there is a connection we... No I dont but if you can share later, well yeh please!! Surrealism: Dali, Varo, Buñuel and Carrington. :D
If possible, yeh, please.
Beautiful.
Love your videos
Thank you Billy!
For more see if you can get tickets to “Beyond Van Gogh”. I experienced this digital immersive presentation of his work in Calgary in 2021.
You deserve so many more subscribers
Working on it!
I hope you make a video about Mark Rothko soon! This was such a good video. Can't wait to see more :)
Thank you! Rothko is a really good idea. I actually hadn’t thought about doing a video about him....
Marvelous video. I love the music, could anyone by any chance tell me what is the piece of music and who wrote it?
You can find the song list in the video description! :)
@@mariacargille1396 Thank you very much.
As always, a great and high quality production, Barnaby. Clever use of Vincent's own letters in the edit. I'm reminded of a Doctor Who episode centered on Van Gogh's life, which contains my favorite scene in all of television. In it, the Doctor travels with Vincent to the current day so that he can finally witness the impact his art has had on the world. Something that, as we know, the real Vincent never got to see. Please watch it if you haven't already. ruclips.net/video/ubTJI_UphPk/видео.html
Thanks Christian. I had seen this, but a long while ago. It’s beautiful. Thank your for reminding me of it.
I had never watched Doctor Who until I accidentally came upon this same episode while channel surfing. As an artist and lover of Van Gogh's art, I sat there watching the whole show and then cried my eyes out at the end because Vincent never got to see his impact on the art world. And I've never been able to look at the painting of that church the same way since then...
Wonderfully done!
This could well lead you to another one specially on synesthesia!!
Thank you Vinicius! Watch this space - there's almost definitely going to be one just about synesthesia.
awesome
this almost makes me cry
Can you take about relationships btn architecture and music, art
Thank you for your amazing documentaries
Did you left any Words behind for us to write it here?! My friend, that's reminds me About (Arthur Rambo) he wrote a poem about colours.. that should Spark you somehow to a new more beautiful thoughts. Thank you again
I'm really mostly into surrealist work but Van Gogh is my one exception to that purely due to his backstory.
Love ur video, but wish no ads in the middle of ur videos
Beautiful. So happy I found your channel, every essay takes me somewhere wildly different and they're all so well-produced. Was Van Gogh a synaesthete?
Since you're asking, something on synaesthesia would be interesting, perhaps using Scriabin or Stravinsky? (There is also modern research on this, e.g. tone-colour and vowel-colour synaesthesia.)
Also I wouldn't mind more on current virtuoso musicians like Collier - say Esperanza Spalding or Cory Henry.
Thank you so much Mark. I'm really pleased you found my channel as well! I don't think he was a synaesthete, but the way he talks about colour/sound/music is very similar to those who did (Kandinsky/Messiaen etc...). I am actually planning to do to a video on Messiaen and synaesthesia. There are a number of composers who had it (and some who claim they had it, but probably didn't!), but Messiaen's music appeals to me most. Thank you, also, for the suggestion of doing more videos about virtuosos - great idea!
Can Anybody Tell Me About The Font Used In 5:20 In The Title Area
can you please make video of danny clinch work ? his work is also based on music
Oh god why can't I remember the name of the outro music
loved this. art + music makes me think of Lana del Rey and how she was inspired by films like The Godfather.
Thank you! I didn't know about that connection - thank you for telling me about it.
Sooo... no-one gonna mention Don McLean? No? OK