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Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

How much did this knowledge weigh on the artist's existential malaise?

How much did this knowledge weigh on the artist's existential malaise?

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How much did this knowledge
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weigh on the artist's existential malaise?
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00:41:00
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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.
(bells tolling) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:13
(bells tolling)
I also read the Bible sometimes, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:15
I also read the Bible sometimes,
All that dribble about good and evil, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:14
All that dribble about good and evil,
(gentle music) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:13
(gentle music)
(gentle music) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:15
(gentle music)
She would later discover the same rebellion against dogma - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:19
She would later discover the same rebellion against dogma
Religion played an enormous role in the family, Van Gogh. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
Religion played an enormous role in the family, Van Gogh.
It was a kind of enlightened kind of Protestantism, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:12
It was a kind of enlightened kind of Protestantism,
But, Van Gogh at a certain point in his life, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
But, Van Gogh at a certain point in his life,
Van Gogh became very, very Christian. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:04
Van Gogh became very, very Christian.
Very much focused on the Bible in a way that his family - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
Very much focused on the Bible in a way that his family
And in a sense, what he does with his art, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
And in a sense, what he does with his art,
Van Gogh wants to mean something, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
Van Gogh wants to mean something,
(gentle music) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
(gentle music)
Only in that I have a certain obligation - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:13
Only in that I have a certain obligation
Not done to please some movement or other, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
Not done to please some movement or other,
I see myself in a similar way, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:10
I see myself in a similar way,
(soft music) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:08
(soft music)
So, from the moment he decided to be an artist, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
So, from the moment he decided to be an artist,
In the first two years as an artist, between 1880 and 1881, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:08
In the first two years as an artist, between 1880 and 1881,