Ironic, isn't it? Look at what we have done to the man who refused to conform his ideals...
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[about Vincent van Gogh] Katherine Watson:
He painted what he felt, not what he saw. People didn't understand, to them it seemed childlike and crude. It took years for them to recognize his actual technique. To see the way his brush strokes seemed to make the night sky move. Yet, he never sold a painting in his lifetime. This is his self-portrait. There's no camouflage, no romance. Honesty. Now, sixty years later, where is he? Giselle Levy:
Famous. Katherine Watson:
So famous, in fact, that everybody has a reproduction. There are post cards... Connie Baker:
We have the calendar. Katherine Watson:
you go. With the ability to reproduce art, it is available to the masses. No one needs to own a van Gogh original, they can paint their own. Van Gogh in a box, ladies! The newest form of mass-distributed art; paint by numbers. Connie Baker:
[reading from the box]
"Now everyone can be van Gogh. It's so easy. Just follow the simple instructions and in minutes, you're on your way to being an artist." Giselle Levy:
Van Gogh by numbers? Katherine Watson:
Ironic, isn't it? Look at what we have done to the man Who refused to conform his ideals to popular taste. Who refused to compromise his integrity. We have put him in a tiny box and asked you to copy him
He painted what he felt, not what he saw. People didn't understand, to them it seemed childlike and crude. It took years for them to recognize his actual technique. To see the way his brush strokes seemed to make the night sky move. Yet, he never sold a painting in his lifetime. This is his self-portrait. There's no camouflage, no romance. Honesty. Now, sixty years later, where is he? Giselle Levy:
Famous. Katherine Watson:
So famous, in fact, that everybody has a reproduction. There are post cards... Connie Baker:
We have the calendar. Katherine Watson:
you go. With the ability to reproduce art, it is available to the masses. No one needs to own a van Gogh original, they can paint their own. Van Gogh in a box, ladies! The newest form of mass-distributed art; paint by numbers. Connie Baker:
[reading from the box]
"Now everyone can be van Gogh. It's so easy. Just follow the simple instructions and in minutes, you're on your way to being an artist." Giselle Levy:
Van Gogh by numbers? Katherine Watson:
Ironic, isn't it? Look at what we have done to the man Who refused to conform his ideals to popular taste. Who refused to compromise his integrity. We have put him in a tiny box and asked you to copy him
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To what Why You don't want to be a lawyer
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Maybe I do
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You won't switch cold creams without asking me but you applied to school
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On a lark We never thought I'd get in
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Who's we Miss Watson
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She practically filled out my application for me
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You've got to be kidding me What right does she have
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You're getting married
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First of all there's no ring on this finger
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Second I can do both I can
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Movie Summary
The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.
