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Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

What really contributedto art and art history is that he was a very radical person

What really contributed
to art and art history is that he was a very radical person

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What really contributed to art and art history
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is that he was a very radical person.
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00:06:03
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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.
He had his own thoughts and ideas, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:13
He had his own thoughts and ideas,
And, he went further than anybody else did at the time. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
And, he went further than anybody else did at the time.
One of the most important ingredients - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
One of the most important ingredients
He wanted to, to give an expression to the subjects - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:12
He wanted to, to give an expression to the subjects
And what he aimed at, was moving people. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
And what he aimed at, was moving people.
(upbeat orchestral) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:16
(upbeat orchestral)
(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