The Dramatic Truth Behind Van Gogh's Iconic Self Portrait |Perspective 

I agree. Ever since I saw his first documentary my interest in arts tripled.

All streaks of brilliance has it own madness plus mental illness. Quite unfortunate.

Cops thought Vincent did it because that is what Gauguin told them.

No. If you know the subject, you also know that his examples of Van Gogh paintings, are known forgeries accoring to experts. I was very impressed by Waldemar in the beginning, then I began to notice how careless he is with facts.

@@Stroheim333 can you provide more details and sources for the forgeries?

Yes - we of a certain age get it...

lol ok

You know what they say about People who enjoy watching animals being tortured .

Agreed. Disgusting and unnecessary to show.

@@artbeets5999 Thanks for your support. It is necessary for all decent human beings have a duty to try to get bullfighting stopped. Never mind arguments about national laws, culture, tradition, jobs, sports etc, all are irrelevant. There is no excuse for animal cruelty and an absolute necessity to get it stopped.

I also agree. Absolutely barbaric, cruel and disgusting on every level.

Turned my stomach too 😢 poor animal😢

I agree about the bullfighting scenes. Things that are happening in the world should not be shown on the Internet!

I am imagining that cutting off one's ear would be painful and the wound jagged from hesitation yet Gauguin describes it as clean and close to the skull. More likely Gauguin took it off with his sabre while fending off a distraught Vincent when hearing Gauguin was leaving.

@@rvllctt871 Gaugin: I''m leaving. VG: I won't hear of it! Gaugin: Not with this ear you won't!

That's what they say in the other BBC documentary, but I think the argument is flawed. Maybe he wouldn't have seen it in Arles but I'm sure that all educated Europeans, including Van Gogh and Gaugin knew about such a spectacularly obscene practice in Spanish bullfighting. People must have talked about in Arles, too, which is not far from Spain. Anyway I find that line of argument as convincing as "He couldn't have possibly known of the existence of the surf board because he was from the Midwest! Q.E.D."

Good knowledge, Horace. Very specialist.

He says, displaying his one remaining ear. I also forgot to mention that Gauguin grew up in an aristocratic family in Peru so the chances that he didn''t talk about bullfighting with Van Gogh in Arles at that time are virtually nill.Also, the bullfighting season was over when VG arrived in Arles so it's painted from memory from some other bullfight: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Ar%C3%A8nes

That's genius for you: cut through the rigamarole to the heart of the matter. Bring out something everyone can understand. And be moved by.

Mel Mo - better late than never and now you've got the time to absorb it all.

Gaugin was Vincent's only friend (aside from Theo, who was far away). It is plausible Vincent deliberately covered for Gaugin.

I mean, its always possible. We are finding out new information about artists everyday. But i guess Because of Vincents schizophrenia and other mental illness's, they've decided he must have done it himself.. and with several ''witnesses'' arguing it was indeed him.

Yes, but not many people are into art, at least to this extent.

@@expromanticart6491 I have no artistic ability and precious little art education, but Perspective and Waldemar are fascinating and superb.

The earlobe was all that was left of his ear.

He bought the Japanese prints from Bing's shop in Paris for almost nothing and quickly amassed a huge collection.

@@renelevaillant6601 How funny!!! I was just finished watching the last installment, and learned that!!! --11 mos. later!!!!

Wat dacht jij zelf Piet Hein , nu kan ik die kruintje niet van dichtbij bekijken ,Eigelijk had ik mij erop verheugd 😥

It was more than that..he hallucinated and was anxious just from the sounds of the city. His whole body was damaged from lead poisoning and from drinking turpentine.

the end? is there one more episode, i wanta see the crows and he shoots himself. the best pic he made was the crows.

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Daar in Arles hebben zij een heel groot slachterij neergezet was betaald uit Europees pot het kwam in beeld door dat iemand zo gek was om het te filmen hoe men dieren ( daar afslachten) misschien iets voor het nabije , woensdag gehakt dag ,zou van Gogh gehakt gelust hebben ? Potjandorie wat een vraag weer vandaag 🤔 of is het morgen pas aan het orde even de agenda erbij pakken 2021/2030 slachterij vraag 😱 de schreeuw van Klimt

Ik vecht niet vrede is mij lief Art brengt het aan en ik mag af en toe de dotjes plaatsen zo vul je elkaar aan om een beter beeld te krijgen 😲

Och ja ben misschien ook geen makke schaap blert wel eens wat maar tot op heden heb ik mijn pootjes keurig binnen boord gehouden, dus deze rammetje heeft niets misdaan dan alleen voor haar rechten opkomend en dat doet zij graag mondelings ,het liefst face to face 😂👉😇

No doubt borrowed from the sign-off line of the long running TV series, starting in 1958: "Naked City", which Januszczak probably watched when he was a young child?

they knew a schizoid when they saw him.

@@bobs5596 Don’t be an ass.

Though Gauguin was an avid fencer, self-defence with a sabre against a razor hardly seems adequate even if they were quite drunk and emotional. Taking his ear clean off like that might seem more logical in a sabre duel which was not the case. In any setting though, moving or not, so precise a stroke so close to a friend's face would entail such exceptional level of skill, premeditated intent and cruelty to make the scenario seem unlikely.

Excellent point, I feel the same.

Personally,having read lust for life & stidying Vincent's art& life I don't think he did cut his own ear.It was more likely a drunken argument with Gaugain.Later with the gun shot.Well so sad but how do we know what happened to this great man who gave so much.So much colour to a black & white world.

@@coconuciferanuts339 I'm not sure about that, because Vincent was so self-destructive; in an earlier episode, he had lashed himself on the back for self punishment, and also purposely came home late so as to be locked out all night shivering in the cold. Plus, he has syphilis, which makes you go mad.

No. Van Gogh was mentally unstable. He cut his own ear off.

could be, good therory, a better take than the usual pitty for a mad man.

I thought the same, he certainly protected the person who shot him, the Christian principles of forgiveness and love he was brought up in, along with the distant grieving mother would be major factors

I like this new theory way more than a man slicing off his own ear. Gauguin being a swordsman is actually something that was unknown to me. More research needed. CHEERS

@@antidoteify Great compassion there, pal.

@@antidoteify het is net wie man voor gek wil verslijten , het is net zoiets als wie onschuldig is gooit de eerste steen, nu kan man Soebatten wat men wil over ,waarom werd die steen niet gegooid ? Omdat iedereen wel aan zonde beleving doet ? Of waren zij bang voor de meester himself ,ik denk het laatste wat denkt U ,ik zal het U uitleggen ,want toen de meester weg was gooiden zij tot op heden nog stenen ,plaatsen zij nog steeds mensen in hokken ,niets leuker dan anderen de maat te nemen dat noemen zij brave , of is het een gewoon kippen werk om op de pik orde hoogte te komen alles moet kunnen zelf uitroeien van anders denkenden kun je ook weer een vraag van maken waarom men andersdenkenden voor mad wil verslijten maar wat ik zo vreemd vind is wat is er relevant aan hoe het gebeurt is of door wie ,als men aan die steen denkt weet men het antwoord toch al VAN GOGH ,GOD,JESUS ANDERSDENKENDEN ,zonder kleur valt alles in het niets , dan is alles grauw zoals nu oorlog, Corona,apenpokken, gatver nergens nog kleur te zien zijn allemaal de apenboom in lang leve de muisgrijze apenpakken mooi afgeplakt met een kruisje en roepen met ons allen heil ,het lijkt ook nog veel op het oor die een van Jesus volgelingen bij een soldaat eraf hakte ,en ik denk dat van Gogh dacht als ik dat doe dan komt Jesus hem er weer het oor eraan zetten zo kan het ook geweest zijn toch ?

You believe anything your spoon fed.

School is about telling people WHAT TO THINK, omitting the things they don’t want you to knowing. Most importantly keeping people away from concept like HOW TO THINK.

Every time I see this piece it's a little greener. Cause chrome yellow is bullshit :/

Schizophrenics don't cut their ears off. Voices from within aren't like tinnitus.

you should check out the art being produced by schizos these days. they see the world in enhanced color, almost psychedelic. go to ''art enables'' website, they have a gallery of art for sale produced by mental disables.

Seriously? Are you being sarcastic?

Probably the man who has studied it, obviously deeply enough to make a video about it that is extremely well put together....I would imagine

@@ndavis7789 There are several of those, as well as several published authors on the topic.

Ah! If Vincent has had acrylic paint he wouldn't have cut his hear.. ..lol

Yea can you imagine his Paintings in Acrylic paint? I have done Re-enactments of his paintings. Hopefully he wouldn’t have drank it smelling how good it smells.

Paint with whatever you like. It certainly doesn't make you any better than Vincent or Leonardo or Michelangelo. They painted the way they wanted, regardless of your opinion

The Sunflowers in Japan certainly is a fake. It looks all wrong and Vincent does not mention it in his letters to Theo.

Nee zo zit het volgens mij niet , hij kreeg van haar niet de aandacht en iemand anders blijkbaar wel, met het oor die de stierenvechter afsneed en weggaf aan iemand die speciaal was op de tribune ,deed hij hetzelfde als de stierenvechter en gaf zijn eigen oor aan die speciale iemand die ondanks zijn oor nu waarschijnlijk helemaal geen aandacht van hem wilde maar dat wil niet zeggen dat het zo gegaan is 🥺👉🦻