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[Vincent] Being a laborer
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Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

Being a laborer, I belong to the working class and shall live and put down roots in that...

[Vincent] Being a laborer, I belong to the working class and shall live and put down roots in that sphere more and more

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[Vincent] Being a laborer,
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I belong to the working class
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and shall live and put down roots
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in that sphere more and more.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:38:48
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.
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,
How much did this knowledge - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
How much did this knowledge
(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.