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Chapter 1: What were Vincent Van Gogh's early influences and upbringing?
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Chapter 2: How did Van Gogh's mental health affect his art?
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Can we talk about Van Gogh?
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Yeah. Have you ever seen any of the Van Gogh movies?
I watched one last night. It was a documentary, but it was the documentary, the one where David Bowie plays Andy Warhol.
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Chapter 3: What significant events marked Van Gogh's time in Paris?
We've talked to, we've done quite a few shows about this kind of thing over the years. And my appreciation for art has grown sort of in lockstep. Uh, I've always sort of like Van Gogh stuff for sure. Uh, but I like him even more now that I kind of understand that, you know, he never, well, I mean, most people, if they know anything about Van Gogh, no, he never gained fame in his lifetime, uh,
But he certainly never tried to achieve fame as an artist by like painting what he thought people might want to see. He always painted what he, you know, his surroundings. And like you said, depending on where he lived, that varied. And also, it seems like really from the heart and his deep, deep emotions, which I have a lot of respect for.
Yeah. And in that sense, he was a pioneer. Same for me, too, by the way. I really came to like him even more. I think we both came from the same exact spot and ended up in about the same exact spot, too.
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One thing I saw that kind of explained him to me, at least, was that he wanted to share the things he saw, the beauty he saw everywhere with the world. Because it was so beautiful. He wanted to provide that to the world, not in any kind of egotistical way or anything like that, but just like, this is so pretty. I'm going to try my best to express how this makes me feel and show the world.
And then very sadly, the world was like, that's not very good. We don't want that. Thanks for sharing, but keep it to yourself.
Yeah, that's tough. I mean, in fact, in one letter to his brother, Theo, he said his only anxiety was how can I be of use in the world? And his, you know, what he came to was to be an artist and that he really thought that had, and he was right, had a lot of value and that's how he would serve in a way.
Right, right.
Kind of cool.
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Chapter 4: How did Van Gogh's relationship with his brother Theo impact his career?
But his parents didn't know what to do with him, so they sent him to boarding school for about four years from 12 to 16, at which point he was like, you know what, I'm going to get involved in the art world in the way of being sort of like an apprentice to a dealer. And he learned about the sales side.
Yeah, I get the impression he kind of fell into the art world because it was almost a family business, selling art was.
The impression?
Yeah. Put that in your pipe and smoke it later, right?
Yeah, I think you're probably right.
So he worked there for, I think, seven years, yeah, until about age 23. And it was during this period that he fell into what I think is viewed as his first true episode of depression, his bout of real depression. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And that would trigger some of his depressive episodes. But as a result, his uncle or whoever ran his uncle's art dealership was like, sorry, you're fired.
Yeah. So he lost that job, but he did learn about the world of art and sort of the business of art, even though he didn't, like I say, kind of kowtow to the business side of things. He got interested in religion for a little while after that job and was a, I guess, an unordained or unlicensed preacher for about four years. He never got a theology degree or anything, but
He did this work, sort of missionary work in Belgium and sort of the poorest parts of Belgium and coal country at the time. And he wanted to, you know, very admirably didn't want to put on airs. And he lived as the people around him lived and was very open and shared what he had with his parishioners. But the church wasn't wild about that idea.
I think they thought it was sort of beneath the parish. So he got fired from that job as a preacher.
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Chapter 5: What is the story behind Van Gogh's famous ear-cutting incident?
So he thought, you know, maybe I should study this stuff. Off and on, he lived with his parents, but that never worked out very well as that happened sometimes in real life. He found them fairly suffocating. And so he would sort of move around in between the Netherlands and Belgium for a period of years.
That's not to say his family as a whole didn't support him because Theo, as we'll see, was always very supportive. He was working in the art world. He worked for a big dealer and he was very sort of hip to the art scene. Theo was right. And, you know, what was moving and he would end up representing Belgium.
Not only his brother, who was not popular, but other artists who were not popular in critical circles like Monet and Gauguin and old Le Trecq, Henri Toulouse Le Trecq.
Yeah, like his brother had that foresight that was like, these new Impressionist guys, I like what they're doing. Yeah, I mean, he knew it was up. But he also very importantly saw, like, my brother actually has something here. This is a good decision that he became an artist. It was not at all patronizing, even though Theo was his patron, which is kind of confusing.
He genuinely believed in his brother's ability. And he very happily was like, I'm going to give you a monthly allowance that I saw was about equal to a minimum wage, what somebody would earn minimum wage. And it kept him, it kept Vincent in the art supplies. I think he spent 80% of it on art supplies and the other 20% on just living. But he was able to live like that and just produce art.
And that's what Theo wanted.
Yeah. And Vincent said, don't patronize me. And he said, well, that's tricky because technically I am. Exactly. And that was about 20 percent of Theo's income. So it was not, you know, chicken scratch. He wasn't making a ton of money himself. His cousin was also very supportive of him in the way of teaching him. His name was Anton Mauve.
And he literally quite literally taught him like how to paint with oil, how to paint with watercolors. And he had that I guess it was that same same uncle who he worked for would commission works and pay him occasionally to like, you know, paint stuff for him.
Yeah, it's like in art circles, Van Gogh is like very frequently cited as like only having sold one painting during his lifetime. That's not correct. Not exactly. But if you, you know, if you want to get technical, he sold several paintings, but they were like family and friends and stuff like that. He did sell one painting to one person he wasn't an acquaintance of. That's true.
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Chapter 6: What were the major themes in Van Gogh's later works?
And he nailed it. It's also, it's bleak and grim in a way, but at the same time, the people almost appear noble. But they're blocky and cartoonish almost. Yeah. As far as their forms go. And that was all intentional, but everybody was like, this is terrible.
Yeah. People didn't love it. He was sending these paintings to Theo to like, hey, man, sell these. And hopefully that can kind of help pay you back. But he couldn't sell any of them at the time. And he took him to the art market in Paris there. But no one was into that. You know, his sort of I don't want to say dour, but I guess it was fairly gloomy. Just his color palette, at least.
This would all change, though. In 1885, his father died. And he painted, you know, very much in tribute to his father, something called Still Life with Bible, which shows sort of the contrast between himself and his father and their ideals, because obviously the open Bible on the table was representing his father. But there was also another novel.
And it was a socialist book by a socialist writer named Emil, I guess, Zola. And it was like, you know, here's a contrast between my father and I. I paint this in tribute, but I got to get out of here now. Like he needed a change in his life, I think, because of his father's passing. He wanted to move.
Yeah, and he definitely did. He moved to Paris. I don't know if he moved in with Theo, but that would be my great guess. Either way, Theo was living and working there, and he moved to be close to Theo. Theo introduced him to those artists he was repping in his circle. Like you said, Monet and Pizarro and Toulouse-Lautrec. Van Gogh was hanging out with all of these guys and learning from them.
But at the same time, He was also impressing them, too. And when he moved to Paris, something changed and he dropped those really gloomy colors in favor for like an increasingly bright, colorful palette that like Paris somehow triggered that in him.
Yeah. You know, you can never or it's easy, I guess, rather than to go back after someone has passed and sort of judge their work compared to where they were in their life and think like you can kind of figure out things. But I guess my armchair psychology degree would point me in the direction of like. almost being freed up a little bit by his father's passing as well.
I know it upset him, but I think it also freed him up. So maybe that and the move to Paris, even though, as we'll see, he wasn't very much a city guy. I don't think it was a coincidence that all of a sudden things kind of brightened in his life a little bit. Or it could have just been the ups and downs of his fragile mental state.
Yeah, it could be either, but I think you dug up an equally compelling idea. Where did you get your armchair psychology degree? Just right here on my armchair. Oh, okay. Well, you're a credit to your armchair. Yeah, the right arm. Is it a Lazy Boy? Is it Ethan Allen? Oh, you know it's a Lazy Boy, buddy. Okay, gotcha.
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Chapter 7: How did Van Gogh's art gain recognition after his death?
In between that time, he painted almost 900 paintings, many, many, many of them masterpieces. So in a 10-year period, everything you know about Van Gogh happened. And really, you can kind of narrow it down to essentially the last three years of his life that were the most productive where he really came into his own.
Yeah, that website you sent kind of broke down his productivity by location. And his five years in the Netherlands, he painted about four paintings a month, so 245. A couple of years in Paris, painted 227, so 10 paintings per month. His 14 months, as we'll see in, what would that be, Arles? Is that how you pronounce that? Arles. Arles, okay.
It does sound like you're choking on a hard-boiled egg.
Yeah.
About 14 paintings a month over 14 months. And then Saint-RĆ©my, is that right? 18 per month. And then finally, man, he was up to a painting per day by the time he ended up in that last place in France.
Yeah. Like just a stunning number of painting and complete oil paintings. Not like he half started one or something like that. These were completed paintings. Like that usually takes a day and a half, not a day.
Right. Yeah, I can't paint anything. I can paint a wall.
Yeah, I could probably paint a wall in a day.
Yeah. You don't have artistic talent like that either, do you?
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Chapter 8: What legacy did Vincent Van Gogh leave in the art world?
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