Are There Any Van Goghs Left?

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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
How To Say Van Gogh: www.grammarphobia.com/blog/20...
Vincent van Gogh Biography: www.biography.com/artist/vinc...
Vincent van Gogh On Encyclopedia Britannica: www.britannica.com/biography/...
Van Gogh’s Love Affair In London: www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/...
The Van Gogh Family Tree: www.vggallery.com/misc/archive...
The Engineer: www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/knowl...
Are Any Of Van Gogh’s Family Still Alive?: www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/125-q...
The Tragic Van Gogh Lineage: / what-you-dont-know-abo...
Living With The Van Gogh Legacy: www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-2...
The Astonishing Life Of Johan Van Gogh: www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/...
Lieuwe van Gogh on Facebook: / lieuwe.vangogh

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@NameExplain 4 года назад

What's your favourite Van Gogh painting? Or any painting by any artist?

@rewindinghistory 4 года назад

Da Vinci Mona Lisa I know that sounds dull but it is great

@sirkazoo3794 4 года назад

The Scream is a interesting painting.

@Samm815 4 года назад

Starry Night and any landscape shots by any artists. I'm a sucker for a good cityscape too. Also, I can see why we don't call him Van Cock. Edit: Also the ear cutting off thing was just a rumor, I read that he got into a fight with his brother resulting in his ear getting torn off, the story about him giving the ear to one of his beloved was made up to prevent his brother from receiving jail time. I also read he didn't shoot himself but a kid did. Vincent claimed he shot himself to prevent the kid from getting in trouble.

@seth1130 4 года назад

Albert Bierstadt's "Among The Sierra Nevada Mountains," has been a favorite of mine for a long time

@edmundsslaidins5738 4 года назад

Correction for 6:02 , He *DID* sell 1 painting - to his own brother!

@TobiasMoes 4 года назад

As a Dutch person I can say that that's not how Dutch people pronounce his name. Props for trying though.

@thesuomi8550 4 года назад

He mispronounces everything lol

@nicjansen230 4 года назад

Well, it's at least not that far off :P

@renskedunnewold1995 4 года назад

He's just not getting that dubble glottal g right, which is fair since the English language doesn't have that sound. I do take issue with the way he transcribed it (And he says van wrong too tbh)

@eliasbirkeland5903 4 года назад

Renske Dunnewold - But he didn’t even transcribe anything?

@link-so9wn 4 года назад

why are you so rude

@wilsonpaycheckii1015 4 года назад

My surname is van Gog , my grand dad's name is Theo van Gog . Been asked if I'm a relative of Vincent all my life

@mikeoxsmal8022 4 года назад

But it doesn't have the h

@mariapp4825 4 года назад

@@mikeoxsmal8022 Spellings change over time.

@mikeoxsmal8022 4 года назад

@@mariapp4825 i know

@lightyagami3492 4 года назад

Have you tried getting more information on your grandfather. Like when he was born and where etc

@wilsonpaycheckii1015 4 года назад

@@lightyagami3492 yeah he is a painter as well is born in 1939 , but sadly due to nazi's burning his family documents we don't know anything about his family.

@Death_Korps_Officer 4 года назад

In other words, the start of his unusual life was the eternal Vincent: Hi British Girl: *I have a boyfriend*

@Dragonite_Tom 4 года назад

Sad life

@Death_Korps_Officer 4 года назад

Moral of the Van Gogh family: Never be the elder son.

@guyhuguenin6992 4 года назад

The “dutch” g is always difficult for english (and many others) to pronounce, though the last guess without the sharp k sound is somewhat close.

@robertvoss9111 2 года назад

Surprisingly the name of Loch Ness in Schotland gets it very close.

@MichaelSidneyTimpson 4 года назад

Here's an interesting question: when he lived in England, how did he tell people to pronounce his name?

@harrymonk6 4 года назад

Van gogh

@veggiet2009 4 года назад

I think he started going by simply "Vincent"

@bigpapadrew 4 года назад

remember - 'van' in the dutch language represented "of", as depicted in this video. 'von', in german, indicated nobility. it was a mixup of what van meant that allowed ludwig van beethoven to be tried in the upper (noble) courts instead of the common court system!

@roy_for_real2674 8 месяцев назад

I know what you talk about in Germanic languages, but it's not like that in The Netherlands.

@roy_for_real2674 8 месяцев назад

Often it has to do with where people just lived at the time, I believe

@MrEricleblanc26 4 года назад

I love his art. I sometimes think that if he came back to life today and he'd learn that one of his painting could buy a destroyer, he'd die of an heart attack.

@Thoomas2001 4 года назад

I honestly have no idea how the pronunciations of 'Van Go' and 'Van Goff' became so popular, since neither of them are even remotely close and neither of them make sense spelling-wise.

@johnkilmartin5101 4 года назад

I recall my first linguistics class when the Professor ( who just happened to be Dutch) wrote ghoti on the board. He then had several students try to pronounce it. I remember his jaw hitting his chest when I replied fish. He said I was the first person who answered correctly in the twenty years he had been teaching. Gh as in enough o as in women and ti as in action.

@wannabehistorian371 4 года назад

...fish?

@johnkilmartin5101 4 года назад

@@wannabehistorian371 Read the end of my post.

@artifex2.080 3 года назад

@@johnkilmartin5101 yeah that spells out fish

@KingsleyIII 4 года назад

Skip to 8:14 if you want to get to the "Are there any Van Goghs left?" part.

@APH1991 4 года назад

Too many bloody rambling videos on the subject.

@sethleoric2598 4 года назад

Can we all agree that Don Mcleane basically makes beautiful poems mixed with soothing music sung with the voice of a poppy field....such a nice artist

@spencersholden 2 года назад

Vincent’s story always makes me cry.

@wannabehistorian371 4 года назад

“Ooh cool, new Name Explain video! What a great thing to wake up to!” *Van Gogh’s depressing life story* “...Whelp, that killed my mood a bit-“

@bze5263 4 года назад

8:10 what?

@zaneyates5704 4 года назад

micro stroke, lol

@seth1130 4 года назад

Now wait a minute... are there any Da Vinci's left?

@NorthingsDellas 4 года назад

Da Vinci isn't his last name iirc. It only means Of Vinci. That's why historians and artists only refer to him as Leonardo

@seth1130 4 года назад

@@NorthingsDellas oh

@acehighjohn1759 4 года назад

@@NorthingsDellas i never knew that. interesting little bit of knowledge.

@Perririri 3 года назад

Leonardo, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle 🤣

@bobbiemarkwick4417 4 года назад

I used to pronounce it Go but switched to Goff after seeing the Doctor Who episode

@rulerworld1289 2 года назад

Imagine being able to say Vincent Van Gogh was my great grand Uncle

@adriancarreira243 4 года назад

In Spanish most people say "Van Go" but I'm too special and say "Van Gog"

@excraz 4 года назад

Fantastic video! As someone from Belgium who loves art and genealogy. Well done sir!

@wowt 4 года назад

I think your pronunciation of the town 'Gogh' is closer to the Dutch way then 'Khokh'. There is not really a K in there. Gggggogggg. Thats it.

@queenchelsea1800 4 года назад

The Dutch "g" is hard to be pronounced, so it's not "just ggggg"

@MatthewDoel32 4 года назад

I was in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam today. I get on RU-vid and this is there. Wow.

@cojohnso80 2 года назад

Van "Goff" is how I have pronounced it for as long as I can remember. I pronounced it Van "Go" when I was a child.

@kugul1683 4 года назад

The Dutch Gogh sounds like the German word Koch meaning cook

@oliverracz8092 4 года назад

This was very a informative and captivating video. Thank you!

@ewestner 4 года назад

Interesting that you pronounce "gogh" the way Americans do and not the way I've heard British people pronounce it. Van Gogh is my favorite artist. Once I went to the MOMA in NY just to see Starry Night. There was a sign on the door that Starry Night was not on display, it was out for loan somewhere else (maybe the Van Gogh Museum?) and I didn't even bother going into the museum. I did go back another day and saw the painting, though. It's just so beautiful. I really should go to Amsterdam and the Van Gogh Museum.

@isaacz.8349 4 года назад

Van Gogh is like my favorite person from back in the day

@JohnTavastian Год назад

Weird how there is no photos of Vincent but all his siblings and even his parents have portraits of them. Can anyone explain?

@TheGabygael 4 года назад

As far as I'm aware, in belguim we mainly use the pronounciations "Van Gog" in wallonia and "van choch"(the ch making the same sound than ch in most gaelic languages) in the flanders

@artifex2.080 4 года назад

Dont they make the exact same noise?

@hellomynameisjoenl 4 года назад

The TV-personality Theo van Gogh was a really famous person in the Netherlands. I’ve never known that he was actually family of Vincent. I just thought it was a coincidence.

@OmerMD 2 года назад

Your drawings are adorable and we all enjoy it

@CGaboL 4 года назад

Some paintings I really like are from Gerardo Murillo "Dr. Atl", a Mexican painter who mostly did his work on volcanoes because he really had a liking for vulcanology, though his pseudonym actually means water in Nahuatl

@realrock333 4 года назад

This is probably the most positive one of these videos I can think of. It's nice to see a famous family still surviving and living life.

@WaterShowsProd 4 года назад

Lieuwe Van Gogh, not only inherited the drive to be an artist but also Eastern spiritualism with tattoos of Pali language Buddhist blessings and a figure of Hanuman. I've seen Starry, Starry Night in The New York Met'. To be honest I was never much interested in Impressionism when studying art, but seeing the actual painting is a completely different experience than seeing prints or photographs of it. It can really only be described as powerful.

@WaterShowsProd 4 года назад

Just took a quick look at his FB page. Looks like he teaches Lanna Muay Thai and has also been to Thailand.

@rocknexus5749 2 года назад

If anyone is interested you should definitely watch the doctor who episode on van Gogh, one of the most beautiful episode of a tv I've ever watched ever

@robertvoss9111 2 года назад

It's not entirely true that he didn't have any formal training, he got a couple of drawing lessons and even lived for a time in th Dutch city of Tilburg (which is my hometown)

@deldarel 4 года назад

As you're always so careful with pronunciation of foreign words, here's a new one: Theo is pronounced 'teyow'. We don't have the dental fricative and the h after the t is just vestigial from the Greek name. It also means his first letter isn't T, but Th. We also didn't have the great vowel shift so our 'long e' is pronounced 'ey', not 'ie'.

@Django_Palstra 10 месяцев назад

My grandfather is named theodorus and he was named after his father I think it was a common name in the netherlands back in the day (which I mean from 1820s to 1970s I think my grandfather was born in 1948)

@CreativaArtly 4 года назад

It has since come out that he was actually shot by two townsboys who were taunting him. He didn’t commit suicide.

@doktorcoconutz4791 4 года назад

That's a theory with a lot of credibility. But still a theory

@DeificCosmoplast 4 года назад

Don Mclean at the beginning was a nice touch

@SalixScape 4 года назад

Willem is written with two l's btw just like you'd write William. ;)

@dannonshowtv1509 4 года назад

Pronunciation: Vihn-Cint Vahn Goh

@gwyneddboom2579 4 года назад

Well, there's my school in Assen the Netherlands, so that still has his name... It's pronounced with two hard Dutch g's. Theo(dorus) is pronounced with a simple t. Vincent went to Drenthe too, which many don't know. I suggest to everyone not to travel to Amsterdam, as it's waaay to busy. So go to Drenthe. In Veenoord-Nieuw-Amsterdam there is a Van Gogh museum too. Apparenty he slept there when he painted the region.

@kimashitawa8113 4 года назад

Assenaar? Moi eem

@gwyneddboom2579 4 года назад

Ryougi Shiki Nee, Smildeger

@kimashitawa8113 4 года назад

@@gwyneddboom2579 Oh Smilde, damn

@edmundsslaidins5738 4 года назад

Corrections: 1:00 - yes you can, if you can draw a line, you can draw (there's always the excuse of 'abstract art') and i've seen worse 6:02 - he did sell a painting to his brother (theo) 7:45 - he was shot by boys messing about with a gun, hunting (he never mentioned it on his deathbed as the boys begged him not to)

@shawna620 4 года назад

I've always said Van Go. My favorite painting is Starry Night. I never knew others said his name differently, not until I saw a Doctor Who episode about Vincent.

@bustermller5492 2 года назад

Here in Denmark we pronounce it: "Fan Gock"

@Danielkoopman2007 3 года назад

The dutch G is really hard it can also be spelled ch like the german one well good luck

@rewindinghistory 4 года назад

Awesome

@jovanweismiller7114 4 года назад

Vincent Van 'Gokh'. Favourites? Van Gogh's Sunflowers (I'm from Kansas, the 'Sunflower State'), DaVinci's Last Supper, Dali's, The Persistence of Memory.

@josephradley3160 4 года назад

As the FX series "Archer" described it. "Vincent van go Fuck Yourself" Man that show cracks me up.

@hellomynameisjoenl 4 года назад

I’m from the Netherlands and I pronounce it like ‘Van Khokh’, as you transliterated that pronunciation. A lot less then as though I’m chocking, though. However, because Vincent was from Noord-Brabant - the central-south province of the Netherlands, sharing a border with Flanders, where the ‘g’ is pronounced ‘softly’ - he probably would’ve pronounced ‘Gogh’ way softer, not unlike the German ‘ch’.

@vickieevenson9309 Год назад

Very cool

@alannothnagle 3 года назад

The trouble with talking about Van Gogh is that you can't pronounce his name without either sounding like an art snob or coming across as an idiot. There's not much wiggle room there, unless you are obviously Dutch, in which case you'll be called upon to provide a pronunciation lesson. I assume that's why people like calling him just plain "Vincent."

@duukm 4 года назад

In dutch The first g is actually pronounced the same as he pronounced the gh, and the gh is correct as well

@davidlabrosse9661 4 года назад

I love that song

@edoverloove6631 4 года назад

I pronaunce it like you should, The dutch way. But i am dutch and i live nearby the places he lived. So for me it's not hard to pronaunced it like vincent himself did.

@rogerwilco2 4 года назад

As a Dutch person, I pronounce Van Gogh as Van Gogh. I don't think any of your pronunciations come close. The Scottish pronunciation of Loch (as in Loch Ness) gets pretty close, if you would replace the L with another CH. I never understand how people find it hard to pronounce words they are really interested in. Plenty of resources on the internet, and then practice a bit.

@florinvezentan3598 4 года назад

He was seen by Jeanne Calment in Arles.

@xxxcatseatstrawsxxx2644 4 года назад

5:49 this image is literally on my math book

@vrobzprodz 4 года назад

Please do king Leopold the 2nd or the whole family if you can I beg it would be very interesting

@libbyhultman5387 Год назад

Pretty sure its pronounced "GOF". So many people back then even misspelled it like that in record booked because that's just what they heard.

@Splitz_Fire 4 года назад

I pronounce it gogh

@frogdolphin9708 4 года назад

Yes.

@nataliemuday9103 4 года назад

You should do the Tudor last name from King Henry VIII

@mathieuleader8601 4 года назад

being Vincent was a great movie

@revinhatol 4 года назад

10:25 Just 3 days short of his 88th birthday.

@cd47art86 4 года назад

In portuguese, at least in Brazil, we say it kinda like how it's written, van gogh, kinda sounds like cog, but with a g on the start

@MichaelSidneyTimpson 4 года назад

You are the first British person I met that says Van Go, which is how Americans say it. When I lived in Britain, everyone said Van Goff.

@MichaelSidneyTimpson 4 года назад

good segue-way to the ad

@bingitybong6518 4 года назад

Do a "Are there any Marxs left?" Heard- one of his Great, Great, Great, Grandsons became a Parkour God doing epic shit infront of McDonalds (ironic)

@Persian-Immortal 4 года назад

Watch his Doctor Who episode. Take a lot of tissues!!

@MrPoc100 4 года назад

well In French where I'm from we pronounced van go

@Dragonite_Tom 4 года назад

Can you do the "Is there any Name Explain left?"

@ernstdejong5072 4 года назад

Why is it so difficult in the english language to pronounce van Gogh? If you can say Loch !

@vlogdemon 4 года назад

We don’t have any words starting with that noise, so it’s the first G that throws us off

@seppoleonvervloet132 4 года назад

@@vlogdemon its like Juan

@jewe37 4 года назад

not too few say "loch" as "lock".

@johnkilmartin5101 4 года назад

Maybe the average Anglophone can't pronounce that loan word either?

@seppoleonvervloet132 4 года назад

@@johnkilmartin5101 what about Jalepeño pepper? Because that J sound in Jalepeño is how to say a Dutch G* More Belgian Dutch than Dutch Dutch but still understandable

@MrOverdoze1991 3 года назад

i'm a van Gogh but i cant find the link to which brother where in the family tree for the life of me. although all the men i know up until my grandfather have reoccurring first names in the family. and live in and around the Netherlands so i'm pretty sure there is a link just not known to me. my best guess is its a pre father of Vincent patrilineal branch.

@MichaelSidneyTimpson 4 года назад

You do realize that both the fact that he cut off his own ear and that he committed suicide is now greatly debunked and both are believed to be false. Gauguin actually cut off his ear in a drunken fight, but he didn't want Gauguin's career destroyed over this, and wanted to go the sanitarium as he was practically destitute anyway. He was later accidentally shot by a neighborhood kid, René Secrétan, in a field, and not wanting to get the kid in trouble, he claimed to shot himself (which is why he did not die instantly.)

@ThumbsandfingersRequired 3 года назад

"Van Gogh" "ok" van gone!!

@yoavshati 4 года назад

Wow, I'm early

@batteriesfx 4 года назад

think of a joke

@tychobotter 4 года назад

Do one about Piet Mondriaan. The one from the Stijl

@Jan_Koopman 4 года назад

It's not [vɛn xɔχ], but [vɑn xɔχ]! Which is how I pronounce it, the correct Dutch way. Again: [vɑn]! Not [vɛn]!

@indecisive.dice.roll.325 4 года назад

Van Gogh: Latin is a dead language! Me, an American high school student studying Latin: Yea you're not wrong

@sirk603 4 года назад

The true way to say it would be how his family says it

@Terrus_38 4 года назад

I pronounce "Van Gogh" as "Van Gog" (with a hard "g", not "j").

@420greatestqueen 4 года назад

Love the photo of Robert Smith

@mathieuleader8601 4 года назад

Vincent's grandnephew Theo was a assassinated

@duukm 4 года назад

The van in Van Gogh is not pronounced like the vehicle, I can’t actually think of an english word with that “a” sound at all.

@lordcedry5744 4 года назад

Can you do one on Niccolo machiavelli

@shookshibe 4 года назад

I pronounce it the dutch way "van gogh", with a soft g, not a hard g

@benjaminmenist 4 года назад

Van goj?

@delta01protoman 4 года назад

Would you say that in Russia we nail it every time, because we write it 'ван Гог' and pronounce last 'г'/g as k?

@ARCtheCartoonMaster 3 года назад

6:34 He was likely influenced by the Japanomania that was occurring in Britain at that time.

@tqj2004 4 года назад

I don't have anything to say but I'm just going to comment to help the channel

@michaelhaywood8262 2 года назад

I have always pronounced it as 'van goff'.

@ava-jq4uq 8 месяцев назад

What country are you from?

@aoore_8332 4 года назад

I together with most Italians pronounce it as van gogg

@MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI-1 4 года назад

Here’s the song he keeps on referencing in the video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oxHnRfhDmrk.html

@forregom 4 года назад

i pronounce it with the Flemish G.

@Perririri 3 года назад

…but, how do you pronounce… *G E K O L O N I S E E R D?!*

@koubl 4 года назад

Interestingly, you chose the suicide version of his death with no hesitation whatsoever. Great video otherwise man!

@Bus_Driver_Jay 4 года назад

Luke Koebele Id never heard another version. Is there one that he was murdered?

@Klatski 4 года назад

@@Bus_Driver_Jay someone else in the comments here said that he supposedly got accidentally shot by his brothers while they were toying around with it, and begged Vincent not to tell so in his deathbed

@koubl 4 года назад

By his brothers?? Surely not :)

@Bus_Driver_Jay 4 года назад

Klaty That’s really interesting. I’ve never heard that theory.