This lecturer shows evident passion for Vincent. Probably only Vincent can make a scholar have such a deep and intimate feeling about him and his work.
Many thanks for posting this wonderful talk... I didn't want Katie to stop, and didn't want her to skip over anything just for the sake of time constraints!!!
Unlike some curators who talked about Van Gogh with an cold academic indifference, Katie presented Van Gogh’s brief life as someone was recalling one’s late younger brother, a little bit weird but very passionate, high strung and sensitive but with a big heart, a bit clumsy but absolutely brilliant. Very few lecturers could present the subject with such passion and objectivity. Great lecture!
The most beautiful pathway through Vincents life and paintings. Thank you so much for this. It won't be the last time I listen to your lucid passion for the wonderful man. 🙏
Loved the way Katie talked about Van Gogh's life and paintings. She is such a great storyteller, and her love for what she's talking about really shines through. Her excitement is very catching. Totally loved this video. Thanks for sharing this with us. :)
I feel so blessed to have found this on Vincent you made me laugh with your delightful insightful wit and your love of Vincent and as an art historian student it was a delight to listen to you thankyou Julia
Katie Hanson does a marvelous presentation introducing us to Vincent van Gogh, his life and some of his work. We clearly see the changes in his work, particularly the transition from darkness to light as well as his wonderful portrait paintings of laboring people. Many thanks to Katie and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The presentation is worthy of a second and third viewing.
This lecture made me laugh and cry. The love of the lecturer for her subject really shines through, and the humour too. A wonderful sensitive lecture. Thank you.
Thank you for a most informative presentation delivered with a deep passion for the topic..You have transferred your extensive knowledge and enthusiasm in such a pleasant manner.
I am a huge fan of Van Gogh and can honestly say Katia did an excellent job . I applaud you for your incredible passion and empathy in transmitting such interesting knowledge . Bravo!
FoxSpookyMulder - Yep. Lovely! I just wish that Americans (in particular) would go to the effort of at least making an attempt at pronouncing his name correctly. Like VAN GOFF. Not too difficult. Not correct, but close enough for English speakers.
What an excellent lecture! The presenter’s enthusiasm was evident and made the fascinating subject of Van Gogh even more meaningful. Thank you so much for making this available for us to watch.
Thank you. i feel so moved by your sensibility and wonder, transporting in it's turn vincent's sensibility and aliveness. Beautiful humanity in both of you. Thank you so much. Made my day.
Seven years later….I’ve enjoyed this immensely! Want to paint some more and would like to imitate Van Gogh’s very blue skies with clouds, swirling trees and blue hills. Definitely happier paintings. Wonderfull presentation of Vincent and his works in his short life. . Thank you.
What a wonderful work of art this presentation is. Ms. Hanson's love for Vincent is hopefully going to be translated into book form. Not only was this presentation humorous, sad and uplifting, it left me thirsting for more.
Her passion for Vincent's story is amazing. I've never heard a better breakdown, putting Vincent's life pieces together in order, showing us his artistic growth and why it happened. A movie director needs to hire this historian and write a Van Gogh movie.
Excellent and very perceptive presentation about this exceptional artist and thinker. Van Gogh style is so powerful that any artist who try to imitate his work can only be a pale shadow of what Van Gogh did as an artist.
You would cry if the truth about VG's death was told. Locals knew he was shot by local thugs. People cannot see that shooting yourself in the stomach is not natural. He was at his peak in 1890.
Thank you so much: ıt is a very informative talk and Katie Hanson does it with a lot of feeling. I know that I will watch it several more times. Excellent.
She is extremely knowledgeable and would have loved this but I could not take the um... um...um...maybe I'm just tired tonight... But Excellent video...She knows her stuff..
Very interesting, thank you so much, Dear Katie ,a large number of famous great painters (during difficult days), reproduce and sign works of other great painters who sold well, for the purpose of subsistance. Had Vincent Van Gogh reproduce a few works of this kind and sold them until the arrival of Theo's money? Merci beaucoup Katie
Utamaro. He has a name. He is famous. He has his own style. It is important to know the artists' name, so you give him due credit for his contribution of the history of art, for accuracy. He is not just "Japanese". It is a problem, having just come back from the museum in Amsterdam, where the problem is the same problem, where the curators say "he was influenced by the Japanese art of the time." . I lived in Tokyo, and they know their own artists' names, as one would expect. Utamaro.
Utamaro was a huge influence on French Impressionists, but Van Gogh studied Hiroshige most, and wrote about Hokusai as well. Here is an article if anyone wants to read about that more www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180611-van-gogh-and-japan-the-prints-that-shaped-the-artist
why do the audience laugh at what Vincent did in his life!! he didn't find it amusingly funny!! He was passionate and suffered with mental torment!!. apart from the audience good documentary.
It annoys me to no end when people constantly use it as a filler word between words and sentences. Drives me crazy and makes it unbearable to listen to them speak.
I think you don't have the right to assure how he was thinking or feeling as if you know him more about himself. At least you could so.. I think that he felt so and thought so... You make your own version of understanding him as if it was an absolute truth. Apart of all your way of talking hit the nerves making jokes about his life and between every words you make the voice ummm ummmm ummm. The only thing I liked in the video the presentation of his painting.
At least if you are a professional specialist in van Gogh, you should try to learn to say his name. Search for a RU-vid video about him in dutch. To keep saying van Go, and van Gof, is unacceptable. And otherwise just say the first and second G, as in Gaugin. The G of God, in the beginning and in the end of the word. GoG. Anybody can say that.
