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Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

(dramatic music) What is drawing?

(dramatic music) [Vincent] What is drawing?

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[Vincent] What is drawing?
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00:47:28
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Jun 27, 2025
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A new look at Van Gogh, through the legacy of the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939), who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works.
It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:08
It's working one's way through an invisible iron w...
How can one get through that wall, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
How can one get through that wall,
In my view, one must undermine the wall - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
In my view, one must undermine the wall
[Narrator] As soon as he had enrolled at the academy, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
[Narrator] As soon as he had enrolled at the academy,
There was a drawing competition - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:13
There was a drawing competition
So it's very difficult to know what he learned - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
So it's very difficult to know what he learned
What he didn't like was the nude model clearly, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:10
What he didn't like was the nude model clearly,
He said "The nude model does not interest me. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:04
He said "The nude model does not interest me.
"I prefer to depict clothed model in a field" - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
"I prefer to depict clothed model in a field"
He was also aiming for a certain type of representation, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:10
He was also aiming for a certain type of representation,
He wanted to be as a sane French painting, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:12
He wanted to be as a sane French painting,
(sweeping orchestral) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
(sweeping orchestral)
In his eyes, life did not seem harmonious - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:12
In his eyes, life did not seem harmonious
(gentle music) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:13
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The years in which Van Gogh becomes the painter, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
The years in which Van Gogh becomes the painter,
The turning point came in 1886, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
The turning point came in 1886,
He left behind the brown of the cloths of earth - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:10
He left behind the brown of the cloths of earth
(gentle music) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:14
(gentle music)
But the first paintings Vincent painted, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:14
But the first paintings Vincent painted,
In the summer of the same year, 1886, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
In the summer of the same year, 1886,