00:00Vincent van Gogh
00:26Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zanderde, the Netherlands.
00:35Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion
00:40and color, highly influenced the 20th century art.
00:44He struggled with mental illness and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.
00:50Over the course of his decade-long career, he produced nearly 900 paintings and more
00:57than 1,100 works on paper.
01:00In 1890, he modestly addressed his artistic legacy as of very secondary importance.
01:07Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he
01:13remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.
01:16In the autumn of 1889 and into 1890, Van Gogh embarked on a series of paintings taken from
01:26his collection of prints that included Jean Millet, Agen Delacroix, Rembrandt and Gustave
01:34Moreau.
01:34It was a period when the artist was lacking in inspiration from external motifs.
01:40He had been at the asylum at Saint-Rémy since May, and he was profoundly depressed.
01:47He once again turned to peasant subjects, and painted this picture after Millet's.
01:53The prints from which he worked were black and white, and consequently Van Gogh had to devise
02:00his own color system, which undoubtedly he would have done anyway.
02:04Moving away from the Dutch coloring of his earliest peasant images, Van Gogh had now become
02:11greatly concerned with color and its function on a symbolic and metaphysical level.
02:18Here the scene is drenched in the brilliant yellow of the field and sparkling blue of the
02:24sky, both of which were naturally occurring under the strong Mediterranean sun.
02:30However, his colors are beyond natural and are an exaggeration or a distillation of the
02:38world he saw.
02:40The picture is placed in Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.
02:45This is one of fifteen canvases of olive trees that Van Gogh executed between June and December
02:52of 1889.
02:54While in the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh received from his friend Émile Bernard a letter
03:02describing his new painting of Christ in the gardens of olives.
03:06He replied that he would rather paint the olive trees just outside the window than the imaginary
03:13olive garden of Christ's agony.
03:16He believed that reality was the only source of strength, although in his torment Van Gogh's
03:23thoughts often led him back to the religious ideas of his youth.
03:28The vibrant oranges and yellows suggest that the picture dates to the autumn months.
03:34His painting of the olive trees is fervent, carried along by a single wave of intense feeling,
03:41which traverses the entire canvas, imparting the same irregular undulation to the earth,
03:48the trees, the sun and the sky.
03:51The painting is housed in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis, the United States.
03:59Starry Night over the Rhorn is one of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings of Arles at night time.
04:06It was painted in September 1888 at a spot on the bank of the Rhorn River that was only
04:13a one- or two-minute walk from the Yellow House on the Place Lamartine, which Van Gogh was renting
04:19at the time.
04:21The night sky and the effects of light at night provided the subject for some of his more famous
04:27paintings, including Café Terrace at Night, painted earlier the same month, and the later
04:34canvas from Saint-Rémy, the Starry Night.
04:37The challenge of painting at night intrigued Van Gogh.
04:41The vantage point he chose for Starry Night over the Rhorn allowed him to capture the reflections
04:47of the gas lighting in Arles across the glimmering blue water of the Rhorn.
04:52In the foreground, two lovers stroll by the banks of the river.
04:56Today the picture is in Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.
05:25This is the van on the street.
05:30This is the van on the street.
05:32It's quite a big bit of a surprise.
05:33You can see the of the trees that go out here on the back of the Rhorn River.
05:38This is a hallmark of the real Allan River.
05:42The Jumping Blue Water of the tennis court is a very impressive film there.
05:47The pick-up or the other one has here in the middle of this place.
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