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Emile Bernard:
Everything you've been doing - what we've all been doing - obsolete, the whole lot of it. Guessing with every brush stroke, pouring rivers of paint into haphazard combinations, but actually everything we're after can be achieved mathamatically. Vincent Van Gogh:
Oh what are you talking about, Seurat again? You really think a painting can be done by formula? Emile Bernard:
Can be? Is being done, right here in Paris; through precise, scientific methods. [scene fades to Seurat's studio] Seurat:
[while working on his famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]
I don't mix my colors on canvas. I mix them in the eye of the spectator. Once you accept the phenomenon of the duration of life and the human race... [interrupted by Van Gogh] Vincent Van Gogh:
Excuse me, but this is a summit exterior. Now why do you paint it indoors by gaslight? I mean how can you judge your colors? Seurat:
Hahaha, by not. Emile Bernard:
Haha, come on Seurat, put him out of his misery. I've tried, but he's still in vice. Seurat:
Alright Bernard, come here Mr. Van Gogh. [Vincent approaches the painting up close] Seurat:
Everyrhing I do is worked out in advance, with mathematical accuracies through precise scientific methods. I know exactly what colors I'm going to use before I pick up my brushes, and my palette is methodically prepared in the order of the spectrum. As you see: blue, blue-violet, violet-red, red, red-orange, orange-yellow, yellow, yellow-green... [scene fades out]
Everything you've been doing - what we've all been doing - obsolete, the whole lot of it. Guessing with every brush stroke, pouring rivers of paint into haphazard combinations, but actually everything we're after can be achieved mathamatically. Vincent Van Gogh:
Oh what are you talking about, Seurat again? You really think a painting can be done by formula? Emile Bernard:
Can be? Is being done, right here in Paris; through precise, scientific methods. [scene fades to Seurat's studio] Seurat:
[while working on his famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]
I don't mix my colors on canvas. I mix them in the eye of the spectator. Once you accept the phenomenon of the duration of life and the human race... [interrupted by Van Gogh] Vincent Van Gogh:
Excuse me, but this is a summit exterior. Now why do you paint it indoors by gaslight? I mean how can you judge your colors? Seurat:
Hahaha, by not. Emile Bernard:
Haha, come on Seurat, put him out of his misery. I've tried, but he's still in vice. Seurat:
Alright Bernard, come here Mr. Van Gogh. [Vincent approaches the painting up close] Seurat:
Everyrhing I do is worked out in advance, with mathematical accuracies through precise scientific methods. I know exactly what colors I'm going to use before I pick up my brushes, and my palette is methodically prepared in the order of the spectrum. As you see: blue, blue-violet, violet-red, red, red-orange, orange-yellow, yellow, yellow-green... [scene fades out]
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Everything I do is worked out in advance
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with mathematical accuracy through precise scientific methods
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I know exactly what colors I'm going to use before I pick up my brushes
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And my palette is methodically prepared in the order of the spectrum
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As you see blue blue violet violet violet red red
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red orange orange yellow yellow
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Movie Summary
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.


