An Upskirt Caricaturist | Great Artists: Van Gogh
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What is the episode about and which artist are they introducing?
Welcome back to Finn vs History, folks. I'm joined by Horatio Gould.
Ah!
And today we're talking about the great artists, specifically Vincent van Gogh. Yes. You're at sea. I'm completely at sea. I can't see land. I'm in an ice rink surrounded by Spanish children whizzing past me and I'm clinging onto the life raft of psychotic men.
Well, you like... reality, you don't like subtext. So as soon as we're getting on towards surrealism, it starts getting weirder and stranger and you feel completely unhealthy.
Why the fuck are you doing that?
I see some paintings and I'm like, why have you done that? See, I'm the opposite. I'm quite dyslexic, so I feel I emotionally connect with images much more than I would words. Text triggers you. Well, in many ways, the page looks like Starry Night. I see, right. So, you know, if I'm reading a letter, to me, that's a psychedelic... But you read text the way I look at photos.
Like, I don't know what the fuck...
What am I meant to do with this?
Why have you done this?
Charlie, are you more of a pictures guy or a words guy? He's a poet.
You are a words guy. I'm entirely word based. I can't see.
But you're quite, do you think visually? So I think incredibly visually. I have dreams. I don't really dream anymore. Why is that funny? So do you just turn off at night?
Yes. Hard reset. Factory reset. Wake up speaking Chinese. hurrah, this will be in the morning, every morning.
Yeah, everything's as it is. There's nothing. And I guess you've also not done psychedelic drugs, so. No, well, I did.
You should do some ayahuasca. Well, I did. No, no, no, no, no. I stayed with Daniel Sloss's lodger. I stayed with Sloss the other week. He'd just done an ayahuasca trip. Well, he had like a Kato pool boy. He has got a Kato. It's Ryan Cullen. He's got a Kato Kaling pool boy. He had just literally come back from an ayahuasca ceremony in Surbiton. And he was shaking, eating boiled chicken and rice, saying that he'd spent three days vomiting. in a room full of 30 people shitting in a bucket and vomiting and he paid £800 for the privilege and he felt brilliant and like all his past did he say that he felt brilliant yeah he said he said it's like it's cured everything right and then I just think I just think I've never I've just not ever really been had a bad time
If I'm paying 800 pounds.
But in Surbiton? Yes. I feel you've got to go jungles, right? I don't want to be on the green belt or like zone six when I'm fucking coming up. I don't think you really come up on Ayahuasca, do you?
No, I think you just... Do you meet an alien dad and then you ask him... My mate did it and he basically was next to this... Apparently it's the most visual trip that exists. So he was just next to this massive vibrating pink cube of flesh. And he cried with it. Ick started crying and so did I. Do you think you'd do it? I think it might be a bit much for me, to be honest.
A bit rich. Mad enough without the gear.
I think so.
But you wouldn't do I Ask a Cuck.
No, I am interested in that sort of stuff. Really? Anything visually that's a bit mad.
Tell you what, I'd be in I Ask a Cuck, I'd watch people doing it. I'd fucking love it. Shitting and vomiting. Yeah, but what the fuck are you doing? I'm sorry, daddy. I'm sorry. Idiots. Absolute morons. That's what I'd be doing.
I'd definitely think you'd take me out of it if you were stone cold sober and I was in a suit.
Yeah, you don't want a sober guy next to you. What the fuck? You're shitting in a bucket.
Come on. Disgusting. Every time the shaman speaks.
Yeah, all right, mate. Yeah, all right. Yeah, I'm going to see how great I've ever made. All right. Boring. What paintings do you like? I like war photography. I like war photography.
I'm very jealous of painters. I think as an artistic process, it feels like the most satisfying. No, I don't think it does. I think because it is never finished. Then you compare it to stand up and I'm looking at my miserable Google Doc. And it's like that's kind of where... Do you write stuff down? What do you mean? What do you do? I just... It's all in there.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the episode about and which artist are they introducing?
0:02–14:03
2
How did Impressionism change painting and why does it matter for Van Gogh?
14:03–39:35
3
How did Van Gogh’s early life and family background shape his character?
39:35–52:22
4
Why did Van Gogh become a preacher and what led him to poor mining communities?
52:22–57:12
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