Vincent van Gogh: The colour and vitality of his works | National Gallery
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Special Projects curator Colin Wiggins walks you through the life and work of Vincent van Gogh, from the bright colours of 'Sunflowers' to his battles with depression. Discover Van Gogh's changing style and the influence of the Post-Impressionist artists in Paris.
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I am watching in 2024. This lecture obviously has been becoming a classic on RUclips. The speaker, Colin Wiggins, knew it in 2016.🎉
What a fantastic speaker! I could listen to him for hours! He speaks with his heart and conveys his love for art (and for the artist) to the audience.
We're so pleased to hear that!
Hello from the future 2023! We are still in love with Vincent, it’s flowers and you. Thank you for the masterclass!
2024 as well)
Took my honeymoon in London in 2015, and we made a point of going to as many of the big museums as we could. When I approached "Sunflowers" in the gallery, the hugest wave of emotion came over me and tears sprang to my eyes. Nothing could prepare me for how incredible this painting is in person. ❤
Piękny...urzeka...❤
“If you’re watching this in the future, this was filmed in 2016” …. Yes! I’m watching here in the future, 2021, oh boy, many things have happened since! Loved this lecture btw!
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October 7th 2021
October 24th, 2021
Colin is an amazing speaker - totally engrossed here in 2022 in such a crazy time. Its nice escapism. National Gallery have the best people working there Colin is a treasure
September 17, 2023
What i love the most about vincent is that his paintings feel so new and modern, the way they make you feel, as if he is not an old artist that is gone many years ago, rather a youthful soul that will never be outdated💛
Yes that painting so amazing until now,I also have one replica and that I've learn so much about it so interesting,I got that replica in Hk
Wish Theo and Vincent could see the impact they had on people and art.
also Theo's wife, Johanna. without her, we wouldnt know who Vincent is
@@StanleyKowalski. great point
don't forget theo's wife
My eyes welled up.
❤
this gentleman has a very plesent manner about him and is easy and interesting to understand. i would like to hear more of his lectures if someone has links to offer, i thank you.
Colin Wiggins
D8271 agreed
Indeed
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I’m sorry is that not u mate
Can you imagine Vincents mother threw out a shitload of his paintings after he died, and even despite that and despite starting late, suffering mental illness, alcoholism and poverty there are almost 300 surviving paintings (some of the most amazing ones are ones many have never seen) and over a thousand drawings. His production was just off the charts.
The Pain of Painting. There are so many paintings because they were so easy for him to do. There wasn't any skill or talent involved.
@Adi Buddhi Pele could teach me to play football. I still wouldn't be good enough. Maybe he would have. If I had a big brother who could pull strings for me. 😉
He produced over 900 paintings alone.
...and he would have sent his mother what he considered to be his best art.
I believe Vincent can hear this wonderful speaker!
Theo supported more than just Vincent, he'd slip money to Gaugin often as well as other post impressionists. Theo talked his art dealer boss into representing the avante-gard, too, and planned to open up own gallery when his boss kept refusing to sell these artists.
So, Vincent was not the only artist helped my Theo. The world owe Theo Van Gogh alot.
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE Oh no - Theo was their biggest champion. If not for Theo we wouldn't have Van Gogh's paintings. It was Theo who kept Vincent in paint and canvas. And after Theo's death his wife, Jo - preserved, collected and presented both Vincent's art and his letters to Theo. Without Theo - Van Gogh almost doesn't exist for us. He was Vincent's biggest fan and the best brother EVER.
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You are right
@@chrisbaerartJo gets the credit for the existence of both.
The whole world owe’s both Van Gogh’s an enormous debt, Vincent for his extraordinary paintings, Theo for supporting him. The world owes the Netherlands a huge debt for their contribution to Westen Culture through their artists.
Here after the throwing of the soup cans…and oil protest…on the sunflower canvas.
Despicable
Hello from the future! 😅 Watching this in 2024 ❤️
Same for me!
I can't keep my eyes off the landscape on the left. Psychologically it goes deeper then the still life. The tension is almost palpable.
It’s funny really as Sunflowers, to me really isn’t my favourite
Same. All the swirls are mesmerizing
Idk why but I wish Mr.Wiggins to live forever. The world needs him.
I could’ve listened to this gentleman talk for another 3 hrs. Very interesting!!! Ty! My favorite art period is the Impressionist period. I hope this art curator (historian?) gives more mini lectures! He’s exceedingly good at it.
Yes, me too. My favourite artists are Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne and Pissarro.
But out of all them, Vincent is the one whose paintings amaze me the most.
The guy is delusional. He says things he doesn't believe himself. If he didn't say the same thing other people say, he appears to be a fool in front of other people. It is like the Emperor's Cloth, there is no cloth, but everyone afraid to say so. In my opinion, that thing barely called art. It is like the painting black cow in the dark night. You can't say there is no cow, you would appear stupid.
@@seanleith5312 what are you on lol
@@PolarBear-rc4ks Orange Juice.
@@seanleith5312 Van Gogh had no talent as an artist. That's why his career was so short. Only paintings he sold were to friends and family. He is famous for cutting off his own ear. That's it. How this guy can compare him to Michelangelo beggars belief.
I'm watching this in the future
I'm watching it in your future!
@@robertloader9826 nah bro, I'm watching it in the future
Am I the only one who spent the whole video being reminded of that Doctor Who episode where Amy and The Doctor brought Vincent Van Gogh forward in time to hear an art historian gush about how he's the greatest painted of all time? Love that episode.
Rivkah, you're not going to believe me but a second before I got to your comment I had this thought: What would Vincent think of this man's lecture? Any theories on how that happened?
@@TrumanGN Doctor Who is a phenomenal show that sticks with you long after you walk away from the screen. I suppose it was inevitable that hearing an honestly passionate man gush over his favorite painter would bring to mind one of the best episodes in the Eleventh Doctor's repertoire. 💗
Me too dude me too. That must be my favourite Doctor Who episode
Me, too! Makes me cry every time.
@@TrumanGN I wonder what Toulouse Lautrec would think of the SCTV sketch "Lust for Paint"
What a brilliant lecture made all the more enjoyable by the knowledge, warmth and humour of the lecturer. He is a treasure.
Art and an art lecture like this gives added meaning to life.
Totally brilliant. I have studied this artist and this has added to my knowledge in so many ways. This guy is great. Thank you.
Thank you for watching :)
Thank you Mr. Wiggins. I just loved your talk ! I learned so much, and you gave me a new outlook. Great !
That nugget of history regarding the invention of the tube of paint 🎨 LOVED THAT what a game changer for artists painting outdoors
It was an absolute pleasure to have listened to him as if it was just yesterday! And yes, this is from the future of 2024. Timeless knowledge and insight of Van Gogh. Thank you.
I am the daughter of an impressionist artist who died of cancer and so grew up with famous paintings in our home and trips to many museums- Van Gogh's genius escaped me as well until my husband shot himself like Vincent did. Then it dawned on me and I realized that ALL those who tragically died including the brilliant artist who left this world so seemingly tragically are not gone at all but are with us in a different state; having emerged from their cocoon like this speaker so eloquently pointed out when he mentioned Van Gogh's Sunflowers revealing the depiction of life's cycles.
Thank you Colin Wiggins for your passionate talk. I've learnt so much more about Vincent van Gogh in just under 30"
Colin Wiggins thank you! You are such a wonderful speaker! I could sit down and just listen to you talk the whole day and I’ll never get bored.
Hello from future Japan🇯🇵. It's 2024 cold winter day and this Sunflower picture still warms up my day🌻
I almost cried imagining if Vincent lived longer and kept drawing until he became an old man. He could have painted many many more and would have been recognized as talented painter. He even might have visited Japan and tasted boiled crabs.
Because we all love his drawings so much, I thank the people who didn't respect him as preacher, school master, or any other jobs but as a painter.
Hallo, I’d like to make a correction. Vincent van Gogh was born in a town called Zundert. In Nuenen he lived and worked later.
In Zundert there is a small but cute museum now and there is a super informative centre in Nuenen, which is a must see for any fan! ;)
Thanks for the confirmation. I thought so too but wasn't 100% sure :)
Thank you so much for giving so interesting info about Vincent van Gogh. I really enjoyed it! ❤️
I was so unlearned, I had only seen Van Gogh in prints and on screen and thought meh. Then I saw is work in Amsterdam and at that moment I realised that I was looking at the work of a genius, his work is painfully beautiful
I only just wish he was just as appreciated for all his brilliant genius and unique personality while he was still alive 😢❤
Maybe if he lives older, Monet get recognition after 50 years old.
2/2024: I’m so glad to have found this channel. The speaker is just fabulous, I like his humor. ❤ I’m saving this video as a favorite.
Vincent is smiling down on this excellent lecturer who portrays him with such reverence
Understanding and affection.
that thing with the future got me ... i thought it was a recent video ... well, hello from 2020
I wonder what the splendid Colin Wiggins is doing in lockdown !! Wonderful lecture.
Wonderful
presentation, viewed 2021. Interesting, accessible, and mercifully no background noise.
👏👏👏
What a wonderful speaker. I have read that letter from Bernard, it is unbelievably sad. Even though I have been interested in Vincent and his work my whole life, I never get tired of listening about him. Thank you! Watching this at the end of 2023!❤
what a marvellous presentation. thank you
Vincent was a simple but loving man, like a sweet child. His mental conditions prevented him from properly expressing his love for people and everything around him. However he managed to show his love for life and the world through his paintings. The love in his paintings is what touches people.
‘I’m now going to make you well up a little bit’. Here I am 10 minutes later still crying, thinking about the sunflowers on Van Gogh’s coffin and his art around him like a halo. Some lives like Van Gogh truly are brilliant - to have touched us this way, whether a day, a year, or many years later, we still admire his genius and mourn the loss of such a person.
I am watching in april the 12th of 2024. I will be there in november to see it in person. See you soon!
Well done. Thank you.
I could listen to you all day. So amusing and extremely interesting in a very individual way. Fascinating.
Brilliantly done Love the lecture on Van Gogh What a wonderful experience to listen to this great lecture I can listen more hours without getting bored. ❤
Thank you been searching to learn more about Van Gogh
Lovely lecture, Thank you so much Colin Wiggins for that excellent explanation about the paintings of Vincent, I watched it twice... I hope to get more lectures of you.. Greetings from Spain
+Anita Lazty Thanks on behalf of Colin! We're glad you enjoyed his talk
Hi..for a moment I thought I had found a compatriot..you would perhaps like to know that Anita is a very popular name Indian name! ( as well)
This videos are great gifts to the public is so important to support the national gallery in London with a donation visiting or doing online through their website 🙏🏼⭐️
This was absolutely Georgeous
I'm watching it in the future
Me, too, Abdul. Can't wait for this lockdown to be unlocked so that I can go to London again to visit the National Gallery. Keep safe.
Van Gogh was my favorite artist, even before I knew anything about painting. I sent away for a print of Sunflowers when I was about 15, and I still have it hanging on my wall. I once was in the Museum of Modern Art in New York when I saw his Irises. They were so alive and vibrant - I could see the bold brush strokes. It seemed so alive that I was tempted to reach out and touch it - but I'm glad I didn't - it would have been blasphemous disrespect to the work of a great genius.
now this is what I call a pleasant and informative presentation!
Thank you, Mr. Wiggins!
vincent is boss when it comes to color
Amen
Monet and Matisse are better in my opinion. Gogh is good... for being a dissociated depressed person and painting sunflower (lol)
@@drcommondrate12 No, Monet and Matisse are light bosses, Vincent is the one when we talk about color. Remember that his paintings colors changed a lot through the years, when he painted it, the colors were even brighter.
@@drcommondrate12 god don’t speak on Van Gogh ever your obviously an idiot.
@@drcommondrate12 Yes, Monet and Matisse can "compete" with him, even art is not a competition.
Thank you for an awesome presentation! ❤ 👏 I'm watching this in august 2023, by the way
I'm watching this in the year 2134 and we're still in love with Vincent 118 years after this video was made.
He's so knowledgeable, it's so wonderful to listen to him.
Vincent is born in the netherlands,he had make many painting,very nice are all the paintings
Thank you so much Colin for all you've contributed to the legacy of Vincent.
😎👍
I'm watching it from the future.
He contributed to Art Therapy. The strength of proportions. He relieved the impressionists. Some life styles are sometimes misunderstood.
Wow, the best art presentation I've ever heard! Learned so much more about Vincent than I read myself on Wiki before...
Kinda wish I could have a little bro like Theo, emotionally & financially so supportive, no matter how rough a loser I get in life, he's there for me always! LOL Very rare pure sibling love!
I missed the Van Gogh art exhibition at Ueno Park in Tokyo during my last visit there, didn't know he had such a big inspiration of Japanese art & culture. Darn it!
Thank you so much for sharing this!
The relationship with Theo and Vincent was such that the great bulk of Vincent's art
could be collected in one place in Amsterdam. What a blessing...
Theo was obviously key in Vincent's life. We should however not forget the tremendous work that Theo's widow Johanna Bonger did after both had passed away to collect not only the paintings but also the letters and bring these to the attention of the world.
It was Jo Van Gogh-Bongers who made that possible for us. Our work, behind the scenes, like hers, can change lives. Vincent Van Gogh was amazing! So were Theo and Johanna.
I was so so happy that I did found out that we have a Sunflower Art at home hanging on the wall done by this Great Gentleman Vincent Van Gogh one of his amazing work is Sunflower painting and it's look nice also with his signature on it Vincent.
It is the 8th of September of 2023 when I'm viewing this video. I'm still inconsolable that the painting behind you, that you are not discussing? The studio version of "A Wheat Field of Cypresses" has left the New Amsterdam, probably around 21:00 on September 7th 2023. I can actually feel the pain of the "twins" being separated again physically. Thank you for lending them to The Met. The Cypresses exhibit, which just closed, was utterly magnificent. That painting was a highlight. Castor and Pollux shouldn't be separated though. I'm not quite sure which is which but it's just not it to separate the two.
The docent at The Met saw my own photograph of a pink crescent moon and Venus, as captured from the wilderness of Manhattan in.....May of 2023. He painted his in May of 1890. We missed each other by 133 years. She was so kind to find "a cancellation" to let me in to the exhibit, which was the first time the paintings were together since 1901. They are just Wrong apart.
You go to a Van Gogh exhibit to see the art. You leave in love with a dead man. I would love to go through the Messier catalog with him.
There was also an item in the exhibit from Gauguin? You can literally feel Our Vincent shove you away from it. On my second visit, I actually got it on film. A room full of NYC tourists on the last day of a major Van Gogh exhibit where The Met is giving him both banners in celebration and recognition? We know what you did. We also know that Gauguin was a grade A dipsh!t, who, at 5' 4" would be easily overtaken by a 5' 10" pagan woman, with tenure, who knows where The Met keeps the weapons collection and has a hankering to use that little blue Wedgwood dueling sword from Arms and Armor on a certain...bully. I also don't care about his fragile "male" ego. You hit Vincent when he was vulnerable? You criticized him and made him feel bad? You know what?
Payback is a Witch, pal.
That is Unforgivable. I wish I had asked to borrow a banjo and a copy of "Men to Avoid in Art and Life" and taken a picture of it next to your nasty note. Because you are just "Mean" in the Taylor Swift sense. We know you did it. We know you hacked his earlobe off and lied to save your precious ego. Well the Witches have your scent now Paul. My Vincent and I have stars to gaze at before I remind you where he's bigger than you by well over 3". Because it isn't just height. ;)
Once again, for someone like me to have access to not only the art, but to listen to someone who was chosen to speak because of his love of the chosen piece, is a truly enjoyable experience! Thank you!
What a great explanation about Vincent. Thank you very much !
The way those hang they look like they're Photoshoped in. So bright. Amazing
Wow I was watching from the future :)
I can`t thank you enough National Gallery.After watching your documentary last year the paintings started` talking `to me . A connection had been made and I am now exploring with a great fever paintings and the artists.Thank you for this new love.
and thank you Colin Wiggins for introducing me to Vincent whom I thought I knew already.
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Even more in the future, 2024. Hope all is well there in the past, that was a beautiful story.
i loved this! Subtle understanding into Vincent's mind, the culture, his Japanese connection. Good talk, Mr Colin Wiggins.
Definitely watching from the future (5-5-22).. What a fantastic lecture. Who would've thought that a 'simple' painting of a vase of past-their-best flowers could be so emotional? When I walk into the NG's gallery, this painting just shouts 'Look at me!' from the wall. It's like a precocious child, demanding attention. That yellow, even though it's over a century old, is vibrant and impossible to ignore. It lights up the room. It is a wonderful, life-enhancing painting from a great artist. Thank you, Vincent, for putting so much life into this masterpiece for us to enjoy, and thank you, Colin, for giving us such insight into its creation.
I'm from St Louis Mo and watching this in 2024
My dear God. This is BRILLIANT.
Hats off !! to the gentleman who narrated the whole story of Vincent Van Gogh. As he narrated I almost walked through those amazing artworks and also learned about the journey of a great artist. Thank you!!!!
Beautiful presentation. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Mr Wiggins is the best lecturer
Colin Higgins is a treat.
First time watching this site.
What a fantastic historical view. There is a suspicion that Vincent was murdered by two young boys, who was teasing Vincent the whole time he was in the village, where many years latter a rusted gun was found off a road where it was said he was seen painting. They then discovered a relative to the boys, gave a gun to the boys. Vincent didn’t want the boys to be charged so he made mention no one else was involved. It was said where it was thought where he was painting All Vincent’s paints and easel was never found, so that alone proves, there was a third party involved and no gun or any evidence was found where it was thought to be.
In reference to Gaugin, there was a lot of suspicion there was more to his story.
Love Vincent’s work and I wanted to know all I could find out about him. Modern day detectives have looked at the story given said there was to many inconsistencies in the witnesses accounts. Very interesting life story. If only he and his brother could’ve seen how popular his work become.
Experts who can convey multiple, complex strands of inter-related information clearly and engagingly, are artists in their own right. Get in Colin!
From the future, watching this video in late 2021! 😀
Van Gogh should be displayed in galleries with a background of black velvet
or black satin only.
This will make every painting the focal point in his use of color and texture and make the experience much more intense !
I love this maaan he knows so much and he's so funny and smart!!!
Amazing colourist, wonderful compositions and decades ahead of his time. It’s the thing Vincent has in common with Turner, another artist whose later, experimental,work was decades ahead of his time. These artists are the true originals, the visionaries that influences other artists deeply and changed art forever. I love listening to art historians like this exceedingly well educated gentlemen whose depth of knowledge is such that he feels no need to patronise just to share what he knows and teach effortlessly.
Watching from the future where we are in the middle of a world wide Pandemic this is a wonderful relief for a while for those of us self isolating, alone due to illness. Thanks from the future I hope you are safe and well. ✌🏻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
This speaker said “if you see this video in future, this video was made in 2016”. I am watching it now in 2021. Five years has passed. I hope this gentleman is still working at this gallery. Best wish to him.
i could listen to the lecturer explaining van gogh (or even any other painters) for hours! sounds passionate yet fun!
I'm from Brasil. Thankful for the beautiful class! Congratulations!
Wow. A great lecture. Delighted to hear him speak.
Gosh I wish I lived in London to be able to go day in day out to the National Gallery! thanks to youtube I can least watch these lectures at home! I love Van Gogh's sunflowers, they are mesmerizing, they give you energy just by looking at the. I have to go and see them every time I manage to go to London. next time I go I absolutely have to catch one of these art lessons!
This is the first time hearing any story about Vincent 😅 so it's very funny that he keeps saying we all know the story
I want to save this video..very clear explanations and the speaker is indeed very good! Thanks!
You are welcome!
@@nationalgallery ❤🇨🇵 thanks for the reply😀
an excellent speaker !
enjoyed this video very much indeed. Thank you.
Great job. I keep watching it again and again.
Thank you very much!
Van Gogh quickly became my favourite artist after in visited the Rijks Museum and the Van Gogh museum a couple of years ago.
You can see the pain in his eyes. Yes I have to admit a grown man cried in a gallery
Great lecture about a great artist from a great speaker👌🙌💯 Brilliant job, Mr. Wiggins!
Thank you sir...🙏🙏
Oh wow I didn’t even think about how new colors were also being invented and artists had access to newer pigments. Wow
Great lecture 👍🏻 watching in lockdown on a Saturday night. Def made me tear up, I can relate to his story, I’m sure most of us can. Keep doing what you love, but just don’t cut yourself.
Thank you so much for this wonderful talk. I just finished reading a selection of Vincent's letters, and your lecture brought so much of them to life. I'm sure I would have found him a very difficult person actually to know, but reading his thoughts in letters and seeing his paintings, one cannot help loving him. An artist whose biography perhaps uniquely penetrates his art.
I have stood in front of that painting many times. I’m still amazed by it 😍
Went today to the National gallery to see The Sunflowers one of my favourite paintings, i love Vermeers work too.