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[Narrator] The peasant's movements and faces
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Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

The peasant'smovements and faces that appear in Van Gogh's works, are an important legacy...

[Narrator] The peasant's
movements and faces that appear in Van Gogh's works, are an important legacy to
this day in the Netherlands

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[Narrator] The peasant's movements and faces
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that appear in Van Gogh's works,
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are an important legacy to this day in the Netherlands.
Duration
8 seconds
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24
Timestamp in Movie
00:36:26
Uploaded
Jun 27, 2025
Genres
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.
At the open air museum in Arnhem, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:12
At the open air museum in Arnhem,
[Marco] One of the painters that Van Gogh - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:13
[Marco] One of the painters that Van Gogh
There's a saw, an image of a saw that we edited, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
There's a saw, an image of a saw that we edited,
So he gives these people a very high status, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:14
So he gives these people a very high status,
(sweeping orchestral) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:14
(sweeping orchestral)
He dressed very simply himself - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:10
He dressed very simply himself
They are closer to what is essential in life. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:04
They are closer to what is essential in life.
They work in the ground, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
They work in the ground,
So they are very close to the cycle of, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
So they are very close to the cycle of,
[Narrator] The world of peasants often crops up - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
[Narrator] The world of peasants often crops up
[Vincent] Being a laborer, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
[Vincent] Being a laborer,
I can't do anything else - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
I can't do anything else
It's always very tempting to draw a figure at rest. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:04
It's always very tempting to draw a figure at rest.
But the truth is, that there's more toil than rest in life. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
But the truth is, that there's more toil than rest in l...
The man from the bottom of the abyss, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:18
The man from the bottom of the abyss,
(sweeping orchestral) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:26
(sweeping orchestral)
[Narrator] In the blackened faces of the miners - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:17
[Narrator] In the blackened faces of the miners
Perhaps it was also because his father Theodoros, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:10
Perhaps it was also because his father Theodoros,
His father and mother named him Vincent, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
His father and mother named him Vincent,
A replacement son, Vincent, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
A replacement son, Vincent,