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Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

(melancholic music) Before he began painting, Van Gogh wrote

(melancholic music) [Narrator] Before he began painting, Van Gogh wrote

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[Narrator] Before he began painting,
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Van Gogh wrote.
Duration
8 seconds
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30
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:18
Uploaded
Jun 27, 2025
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documentary
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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.
First would come the drawings and then the oil paintings, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
First would come the drawings and then the oil paintings,
From the autumn of 1872, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:11
From the autumn of 1872,
From the Hague, July 21st 1882, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
From the Hague, July 21st 1882,
"What I want and set as my goal is damn difficult, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:22
"What I want and set as my goal is damn difficult,
"That man feels deeply, and that man feels subtly" - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
"That man feels deeply, and that man feels subtly"
A non-entity, or an oddity, or a disagreeable person, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
A non-entity, or an oddity, or a disagreeable person,
Very well, assuming that everything is indeed like that. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
Very well, assuming that everything is indeed like that.
Then through my work, I'd like to show what there is - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
Then through my work, I'd like to show what there is
[Narrator] An infinite ocean of plant life, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
[Narrator] An infinite ocean of plant life,
In the large Hoge Veluwe Park, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:10
In the large Hoge Veluwe Park,
Marco Goldin, the exhibition's curator, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
Marco Goldin, the exhibition's curator,
Many of Vincent's most beautiful paintings - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
Many of Vincent's most beautiful paintings
Between walls of trees and expanses of sand - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
Between walls of trees and expanses of sand
Its wild nature, the leaves, the light. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
Its wild nature, the leaves, the light.
He might perhaps have seen God there, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
He might perhaps have seen God there,
In the middle of the forest is the Kröller-Müller Museum, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:08
In the middle of the forest is the Kröller-Müller Museum,
An understated building made of simple bricks - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
An understated building made of simple bricks
In the center, there are the rooms - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
In the center, there are the rooms
A total of 88 paintings and 180 drawings, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:12
A total of 88 paintings and 180 drawings,
Helene saw the museum as a temple, a sanctuary, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
Helene saw the museum as a temple, a sanctuary,