Vincent van Gogh - A.&E. Documentary

[iLOVENATURE2011]

great man! i love van gogh! =)

[charvelguy]

what the heck is with the audio trainwreck at the end?

[gullydisciple]

van gogh & michel-jean cazobon are my favorite

[amathystluvr]

im workin on an essay for a school project on vincent van gogh. can u give me the url of where you found this video please? thanx for the info. it helps plan the essay out.

[coltsrule5150]

there was a time or so i hear that artist would be treated with great respect because people back then understood just how tough it was to be an artist

[icekoldnigga]

He said he had one ear?

[2taggs2]

I just saw the piece on '60 Minutes' about van Gogh and thought it was so fascinating. He lived a tortured life, begging for acceptance and living with a mental illness he could not control. Many viewed him as a "weirdo" - to his own family he was a nuisance - now he is deemed "brilliant" and some of his art goes for $100 million. He never achieved success while alive -- yet he is considered to be the greatest artist ever. Kind of a shame he could not profit or be appreciated while he was alive.

[ccipollini1984]

His mother was such a cold hearted ,unsupportive cow...

[Exilcauda]

It's not pronounced THEOdoras, it's pronounced TAY-Odoras..

[TRE1275]

True art is never recognized until after the artist is dead. Too bad the masses are retards or things could be different.

[888showjumper]

What a sad story. For both the brothers.

[imprintedlamb2]

I wish he was still alive. 

[FrankW69]

Absolute genius.... I can't get enough of his art. It speaks to me in a way that no other artist's work ever has. I don't think he was insane, at all. I think he suffered from acute perception, and while that kind of perception doesn't mean that a person is insane, such acute sensitivity can drive a person insane.

Vincent Willem van Gogh, you are one of the greatest geniuses that this world has ever known, and maybe will ever know.

[bestkeptsecretout]

I Love You Vincent van Gogh! Thank You For Being On Earth!

[vcccjvcjvvv]

his work is class

[0pteryx]

Wow, this is fucking depressing,

[CoolerKing37]

@0pteryx The dude led a pretty depressing life...

[Buzztooth]

Hoe old id this doco? Some of the information is incorrect.

[LuluHeeNim]

thumbs up if he is you favorite painter!

[lollerz16]

I don't know much about art but I can tell just by looking at Van Gogh's paintings that he was the greatest ever.

[enemyofall67]

this man was a truly genious

i dont know why nobody appreciate his work when he was alive

[MrMercurySwitch]

Interesting how Vincent's parents named him after the baby who had died, it seems like he may have lived twice in a life time in some strange way...

[bltsdsubbie]

I'm not really an arts person, but his story is pretty admirable. However, it kinda bugs me when english-speaking people say his name ; van gooooooooogh. But I guess that's just my little pet peeve.

[scyllaandcharybdis]

that stupid starry night song ruined the entire documentary towards the end of this video, its like, 'erm hello! tryin to listen to a documentary here! not a fuckin song!" vincent van gogh

[daniellopezsr08]

@scyllaandcharybdis well make a video yourself and do it how the fuck you want...... and don mclean made a bigger tribute to vincent than your complaning ass ever did.........

[scyllaandcharybdis]

@daniellopezsr08 damn wot is ur problem?? don mcclean made a bigger tribute? its only vincent van gogh ffs!

[hollydolly065]

i'm sure the prostitute would've been rapped do recieve a mental cases ear!?

[hollydolly065]

thats pretty incredible

[nea1186]

way to cut, gesh!

[letmelivemylife2008]

I truly believe that me and Vincent had a lot in common. I've never really had luck with women, I can feel things deeper than others and I have a big heart. I might be his reincarnation.

[SpiderXxPirate]

@letmelivemylife2008 Uh-Oh . . . Best be careful the. :)

[SpiderXxPirate]

@letmelivemylife2008  Uh-Oh . . . Best be careful then. :)

[inkey2]

@letmelivemylife2008 well if you feel you have something in common with VanGogh.....try your hand at art....Vincent started painting later in his life......and what about Grandma Moses......she started painting at about 75 years old. I might suggest you start with water colors first......or just sketches with a pencil. You don't know till you try.....good luck

[dramagal44]

Wow.... Wow..... Wooooowwwwww this was just wow he cut off his friggin ear?!?!?!

[elatabsaid]

wow

:D

[AtemnoYugi1232]

4:32 Random Don McLean in the background

[eddierat100]

check out oh3.net.

Be sure to read the first paragraph.

[Scrandom562]

he was ahead of his time

[SaraLovesMusic21]

Wow beautiful work

[durtyEmpire]

Knowledge must come in many forms and we should not be afraid, our souls can seek places beyond our boundaries.

[wberdan]

I love this abbreviated biography. Reminds me of a poorly written middle school essay.

[JamesTKirkCobain]

Just think: He died in complete poverty as an unknown while alive, yet retards and Karaoke Queens like Kanye and Madonna are praised as Gods. Yeah, the life of the true artist is fair.

[JamesTKirkCobain]

The thing about his self portraits is if you want to see what he looked like, you have to flip them into a mirror image as he painted those portraits from looking into a mirror.

[DJVirgoNeun]

Truly an artist and tortured soul I feel pity for. And it's such a sadness that little to none of us will ever have the spotlight and fortune we deserve for our fine art until everyone of us is a corpse just like poor old Van Gogh here.

[thechaz83]

@DJVirgoNeun I agree with you DJVirgo. However, today the world is bigger and the audience (meaning publishing companies, art dealers; any type actually) want the bottom line: money. And the world grows more blood thirsty for it and the enjoyment of art is quickly disappearing.

[thechaz83]

@DJVirgoNeun I'm an aspiring writer. Van Gogh is one of my idols. I love true art, as I'm sure you do. I believe in giving it your all and not just whipping something together to earn money like many people do. But sadly I believe those money hungry "Whippers" out number us true artists. Sadly, hopefully I'm wrong, they will continue to outnumber us true artists and we will only be forgotten corpses unless something is done to preserve the work of all true artists. I hope I'm wrong.

[DJVirgoNeun]

@thechaz83 It's not necessarily the "whippers" that concern me. The "whippers" were pretty much like any one of us whom are artists, poets, writers and so on. They strive for originality and want the same thing we want out of it: recognition, respect, fame and or fortune. The only problem is we make so little in life as artists yet we make a whole lot more when we are dead. The very thing I can never understand. Are they people purchasing our works out of pity or are they just like vultures?

[thechaz83]

@DJVirgoNeun Alright now I see what your saying. That is a tough one. Good contemplation. I don't know how to answer why death is the magical antidote. What do you think? I'm going to do everything I can to make sure my work is preserved so that I don't disappear into the mouth of oblivion once I'm dead. However, I'm not sure how I will do it. And like my poor assumption, and I apologize, every artist once recognition, but just like every artist (almost) I also seem to think they're a step out

[thechaz83]

@DJVirgoNeun I'm going to do everything I can to make sure my work is preserved so that I don't disappear into the mouth of oblivion once I'm dead. However, I'm not sure how I will do it. And like my poor assumption, and I apologize, every artist once recognition, but just like every artist (almost) I also seem to think they're a step out or ahead of their time. One line of artists were born too late and the others too early. The artists and those mysterious cosmos which conceived them are

[DJVirgoNeun]

@thechaz83 Ah I see now. Thank you so much on that. Perhaps it is do with introducing a newer concept in the art world that is given the most recognition? And I understand what you mean about being born too late. Something that I can relate to. I am self am focusing on something revolutionary for one of my pieces myself. However, I am focusing on making myself known locally at the time in town.

[thechaz83]

@DJVirgoNeun mysterious.

[thechaz83]

@thechaz83 And I'm an example of being born too late and thus I lash out at everything modern. Not healthy or moral.

[queenanalsex]

it was his earlobe you cuntfuck

[TheJasonDude]

so do have to die to be a famous artist?

[Hlejames]

@TheJasonDude Yes. Your life mut be tragic, you must be obsessed with expression, live under appreciated and then die. That is a sure way to become famous as an artist.

[mydogsloveme]

Interesting! Thanks for posting!

[nicolasc8]

I love Vincent Van Gogh. He is an awesome artist, and I feel sad that he committed suicide... :( I did a PPT about him. And I LOVE HIS PAINTINGS, HE ROCKS!!!

[nicolasc8]

I love Vincent Van Gogh. He is an awesome artist, and I feel sad that he committed suicide... :( I did a PPT about him.

[kerabas]

He is one of my favorite artist of all time. Only a few artists paint with so much color and gorgeously as him. He was a genius!

[Hannibalscousin]

Sad story. What an idiot his mother was - I hate parents that don't encourage their children. A bit of parental belief may have changed his life.

[GelandnaleG]

3:54

[albibalbialbibalbi]

well too bad jeanne calment isn't alive anymore i would of loved to ask her what vincent van gogh was like when he bought canvas in her shop in 1888 2 years before he died

[NoraaXO]

He was depressed and committed suicide :( I'm depressed as well.

[1205black]

An artist does not get famous until they are dead.  Vincent you are and inspiration to us all artist. maybe when I die I will get famous. LOL

[inkey2]

ld they even cure STD's in those days?

[s60823abcd]

眼神好憂鬱

[automaticchic]

i think there's alot cutting...o.0

[LadyVanDaele]

lies? :p

[nycrtst33]

Can't believe he only sold one painting throughout his lifetime,He's my inspiration and will follow his footsteps paint ten years,suffer,then suicide .

[inkey2]

@nycrtst33 i just read two books about Van Gogh. One painting he gave away to a man that hated it so much that he used the painting to patch a hole in his fence. That was probably a 200 million fence repair

[1978utreg]

@inkey2 haha no of'fence' :P nice quote, did not know that

[bibixortix12]

he cut his ear and gaveit to aa prostitute

[bibixortix12]

he cut his ear and gave it to aa prrotitute

[Joedink1]

he should have listened to his dad, obey god and stayed out of sin with whores. he would have been happy and without std's.

[jakepo17]

bravo!!!

viens voir sur jakepo17 des artistes français au travail.

à bientôt,

Jacques

[dmcc20012]

Its a pitty such a great artist suffered hard from depression.

[spiralisedcat]

75M dollars!!!!!!! i think vincent would of traded that money for a good women any day of the week.

[Soidisons]

Its a retarded commentary and unrealistic.

[spiralisedcat]

in your opinion

[Soidisons]

Did you think he was in it for the money?

[QviggZOr]

han gör så fina tavlor

[cosmiclight]

So what did you think of Lust for Life? Isn't Kirk Douglas a convincing Van Gogh? He looks like the real artist. Some of my friends did not like his acting but I think he is superp. Anthony Quinn takes the Best Supporting Actor award for the role portraying Guaguin in this film.

Have any of you seen original Van Gogh paintings. When went to see the exhibit in LA in 1998, there were people in the museum crowd in tears, sobbing at the sight of some of the self-portraits. Mark S, Artist in pdx

[SodCorley]

After seeing the doc I couldn't resist renting "Lust For Life" with Kirk Douglas portraying Van Gogh. I like the film personally, but It starts off with Van Gogh at the age of 25...

[Soidisons]

Look at the power of art by Simon Schama

[SodCorley]

The full documentary is on that other site with the green logo that starts with an "H" lololol!!

[moonlightgarden12am]

hate to be the stupid one...but what site are you speaking of...i would like to see the documentary in its entirety....would be appreciated...

[SodCorley]

I meant it was on Hulu, but I remembered wrong. It's actually on the website for the Biography Channel in It's entirety. Some sites block out the name of their competition so that's why I said it that way! lol!

[Sabradin]

no amount of praise can make his life happy

[Aikenan]

I would give everything I have to own The Starry Night or Cypresses, any canvas of van goghs, actually.

[ARTISTMERLIN]

my art is better

[lolazz22]

dream on

[GenericGene]

Superb - Gene *****

[rimind1]

thanks was really helpfull!

[jellycolors]

His mom threw away crates of his art OMG!!! where are those crate's

[jellycolors]

does he have paintings out there not discovered yet?

[Oscar301]

His birth story parallels Salvador Dali, who was also named after a dead older sibling. Beautiful tho, thanks for the upload...

[wirsindheldenowns]

he died lol

[jellycolors]

WOW!! your mind is not to be understood

[mayonaise33]

lol. you will too.

[hairyhoff]

oops that should say time.. and leonard

[hairyhoff]

is that leanard nimoy? and why are they playing 2 songs at the same ime?

[bashthebandello]

me and van gogh are extremeley similiar!

[murattislims]

i love him and i love his work

[sheri01bowers]

he was true artist....i love his work