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Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

(upbeat orchestral) Van Gogh saw everyday life as difficult, people have problems andart...

(upbeat orchestral) Van Gogh saw everyday life as difficult, people have problems and
art and literature was there to give them something beautiful, to give them a moment of rest, to give them peace of mind

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Van Gogh saw everyday life as difficult,
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people have problems and art and literature was there
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to give them something beautiful,
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to give them a moment of rest,
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to give them peace of mind.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:06:59
Uploaded
Jun 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

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.
(melancholic music) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:08
(melancholic music)
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,