Vincent van Gogh: The colour and vitality of his works | National Gallery

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Special Projects curator Colin Wiggins walks you through the life and work of Vincent van Gogh, from the bright colours of 'Sunflowers' to his battles with depression. Discover Van Gogh's changing style and the influence of the Post-Impressionist artists in Paris.
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@NewVoiceMMI 25 дней назад

I am watching in 2024. This lecture obviously has been becoming a classic on RU-vid. The speaker, Colin Wiggins, knew it in 2016.🎉

@vincevdijk7430 9 дней назад

Van Gogh died in 1890... What has your comment to do about a speaker 126 years later?

@fernandamonteiro704 2 года назад

What a fantastic speaker! I could listen to him for hours! He speaks with his heart and conveys his love for art (and for the artist) to the audience.

@nationalgallery 2 года назад

We're so pleased to hear that!

@nancydeduron2 3 года назад

“If you’re watching this in the future, this was filmed in 2016” …. Yes! I’m watching here in the future, 2021, oh boy, many things have happened since! Loved this lecture btw!

@jenniechen24 2 года назад

AUGUST31 2121

@gordonstrong5232 2 года назад

October 7th 2021

@jamestaylor6053 2 года назад

October 24th, 2021

@hunkhk 2 года назад

Colin is an amazing speaker - totally engrossed here in 2022 in such a crazy time. Its nice escapism. National Gallery have the best people working there Colin is a treasure

@ritagreen6499 9 месяцев назад

September 17, 2023

@ALEN1ful 4 года назад

Wish Theo and Vincent could see the impact they had on people and art.

@StanleyKowalski. 4 года назад

also Theo's wife, Johanna. without her, we wouldnt know who Vincent is

@ALEN1ful 4 года назад

@@StanleyKowalski. great point

@btul2569 4 года назад

don't forget theo's wife

@LL-sd2fc 4 года назад

My eyes welled up.

@barbarachieppo8290 4 года назад

❤

@channelandrefreitas 8 месяцев назад

Hello from the future 2023! We are still in love with Vincent, it’s flowers and you. Thank you for the masterclass!

@dinabiktimirova7119 Месяц назад

2024 as well)

@D8271 6 лет назад

this gentleman has a very plesent manner about him and is easy and interesting to understand. i would like to hear more of his lectures if someone has links to offer, i thank you.

@PleinAirAdventureswithTezDower 4 года назад

Colin Wiggins

@sanderstar1000 4 года назад

D8271 agreed

@alminjoNo1 3 года назад

Indeed

@lynettecox5294 3 года назад

alminjoNo1 m

@lee9751 2 года назад

I’m sorry is that not u mate

@midnightchannel7759 4 года назад

Theo supported more than just Vincent, he'd slip money to Gaugin often as well as other post impressionists. Theo talked his art dealer boss into representing the avante-gard, too, and planned to open up own gallery when his boss kept refusing to sell these artists. So, Vincent was not the only artist helped my Theo. The world owe Theo Van Gogh alot.

@chrisbaerart 4 года назад

@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE Oh no - Theo was their biggest champion. If not for Theo we wouldn't have Van Gogh's paintings. It was Theo who kept Vincent in paint and canvas. And after Theo's death his wife, Jo - preserved, collected and presented both Vincent's art and his letters to Theo. Without Theo - Van Gogh almost doesn't exist for us. He was Vincent's biggest fan and the best brother EVER.

@vezirasubasic8669 4 года назад

Vincent van Gogh vert

@mounabenserradj5077 4 года назад

You are right

@caspermilquetoast411 4 года назад

@@chrisbaerartJo gets the credit for the existence of both.

@scarletpimpernelagain9124 4 года назад

The whole world owe’s both Van Gogh’s an enormous debt, Vincent for his extraordinary paintings, Theo for supporting him. The world owes the Netherlands a huge debt for their contribution to Westen Culture through their artists.

@satchelyork 4 года назад

Can you imagine Vincents mother threw out a shitload of his paintings after he died, and even despite that and despite starting late, suffering mental illness, alcoholism and poverty there are almost 300 surviving paintings (some of the most amazing ones are ones many have never seen) and over a thousand drawings. His production was just off the charts.

@grahambiggs2017 2 года назад

The Pain of Painting. There are so many paintings because they were so easy for him to do. There wasn't any skill or talent involved.

@grahambiggs2017 2 года назад

@Adi Buddhi Pele could teach me to play football. I still wouldn't be good enough. Maybe he would have. If I had a big brother who could pull strings for me. 😉

@cahillgreg 2 года назад

He produced over 900 paintings alone.

@midnightchannel7759 2 года назад

...and he would have sent his mother what he considered to be his best art.

@gundog7199 3 месяца назад

I believe Vincent can hear this wonderful speaker!

@sandrafaith 8 месяцев назад

Took my honeymoon in London in 2015, and we made a point of going to as many of the big museums as we could. When I approached "Sunflowers" in the gallery, the hugest wave of emotion came over me and tears sprang to my eyes. Nothing could prepare me for how incredible this painting is in person. ❤

@isalum9308 5 месяцев назад

Piękny...urzeka...❤

@renadelshiekh2999 Год назад

What i love the most about vincent is that his paintings feel so new and modern, the way they make you feel, as if he is not an old artist that is gone many years ago, rather a youthful soul that will never be outdated💛

@leonoraramos2855 Год назад

Yes that painting so amazing until now,I also have one replica and that I've learn so much about it so interesting,I got that replica in Hk

@RivkahSong 4 года назад

Am I the only one who spent the whole video being reminded of that Doctor Who episode where Amy and The Doctor brought Vincent Van Gogh forward in time to hear an art historian gush about how he's the greatest painted of all time? Love that episode.

@TrumanGN 4 года назад

Rivkah, you're not going to believe me but a second before I got to your comment I had this thought: What would Vincent think of this man's lecture? Any theories on how that happened?

@RivkahSong 4 года назад

@@TrumanGN Doctor Who is a phenomenal show that sticks with you long after you walk away from the screen. I suppose it was inevitable that hearing an honestly passionate man gush over his favorite painter would bring to mind one of the best episodes in the Eleventh Doctor's repertoire. 💗

@nebula1oftheseven488 4 года назад

Me too dude me too. That must be my favourite Doctor Who episode

@susanhepburn6040 3 года назад

Me, too! Makes me cry every time.

@matthewgray469 3 года назад

@@TrumanGN I wonder what Toulouse Lautrec would think of the SCTV sketch "Lust for Paint"

@dshepherd107 4 года назад

I could’ve listened to this gentleman talk for another 3 hrs. Very interesting!!! Ty! My favorite art period is the Impressionist period. I hope this art curator (historian?) gives more mini lectures! He’s exceedingly good at it.

@vozamaraktv-art5595 4 года назад

Yes, me too. My favourite artists are Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne and Pissarro. But out of all them, Vincent is the one whose paintings amaze me the most.

@seanleith5312 3 года назад

The guy is delusional. He says things he doesn't believe himself. If he didn't say the same thing other people say, he appears to be a fool in front of other people. It is like the Emperor's Cloth, there is no cloth, but everyone afraid to say so. In my opinion, that thing barely called art. It is like the painting black cow in the dark night. You can't say there is no cow, you would appear stupid.

@PolarBear-rc4ks 3 года назад

@@seanleith5312 what are you on lol

@seanleith5312 3 года назад

@@PolarBear-rc4ks Orange Juice.

@grahambiggs2017 3 года назад

@@seanleith5312 Van Gogh had no talent as an artist. That's why his career was so short. Only paintings he sold were to friends and family. He is famous for cutting off his own ear. That's it. How this guy can compare him to Michelangelo beggars belief.

@jacobusbaker9285 4 года назад

I can't keep my eyes off the landscape on the left. Psychologically it goes deeper then the still life. The tension is almost palpable.

@Mpayne1472 3 года назад

It’s funny really as Sunflowers, to me really isn’t my favourite

@tylerhulsey982 3 года назад

Same. All the swirls are mesmerizing

@smsoum 4 года назад

I'm watching this in the future

@robertloader9826 3 года назад

I'm watching it in your future!

@tsr6951 3 года назад

@@robertloader9826 nah bro, I'm watching it in the future

@OFBCyclingWorld 10 месяцев назад

Totally brilliant. I have studied this artist and this has added to my knowledge in so many ways. This guy is great. Thank you.

@nationalgallery 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching :)

@vincentdesapio 3 года назад

Art and an art lecture like this gives added meaning to life.

@katjaspronk7523 3 года назад

Hallo, I’d like to make a correction. Vincent van Gogh was born in a town called Zundert. In Nuenen he lived and worked later. In Zundert there is a small but cute museum now and there is a super informative centre in Nuenen, which is a must see for any fan! ;)

@lorenzovonmatta8278 3 года назад

Thanks for the confirmation. I thought so too but wasn't 100% sure :)

@rnp497 3 года назад

I was so unlearned, I had only seen Van Gogh in prints and on screen and thought meh. Then I saw is work in Amsterdam and at that moment I realised that I was looking at the work of a genius, his work is painfully beautiful

@russellhogben6628 6 лет назад

What a brilliant lecture made all the more enjoyable by the knowledge, warmth and humour of the lecturer. He is a treasure.

@sherbetbomb3276 Год назад

Here after the throwing of the soup cans…and oil protest…on the sunflower canvas.

@stancanner 2 месяца назад

Despicable

@judithwilliams3835 2 года назад

Thank you Mr. Wiggins. I just loved your talk ! I learned so much, and you gave me a new outlook. Great !

@twinsoultarot473 2 года назад

I am the daughter of an impressionist artist who died of cancer and so grew up with famous paintings in our home and trips to many museums- Van Gogh's genius escaped me as well until my husband shot himself like Vincent did. Then it dawned on me and I realized that ALL those who tragically died including the brilliant artist who left this world so seemingly tragically are not gone at all but are with us in a different state; having emerged from their cocoon like this speaker so eloquently pointed out when he mentioned Van Gogh's Sunflowers revealing the depiction of life's cycles.

@user-hn6lw4et7w Год назад

Thank you so much for giving so interesting info about Vincent van Gogh. I really enjoyed it! ❤️

@josephinew6061 3 года назад

Well done. Thank you.

@mrsgingernoisette 4 месяца назад

Idk why but I wish Mr.Wiggins to live forever. The world needs him.

@kiaartwork 2 года назад

Thank you been searching to learn more about Van Gogh

@lesagent 4 года назад

Thank you Colin Wiggins for your passionate talk. I've learnt so much more about Vincent van Gogh in just under 30"

@daynacase8528 2 года назад

That nugget of history regarding the invention of the tube of paint 🎨 LOVED THAT what a game changer for artists painting outdoors

@riebell1680 9 месяцев назад

what a marvellous presentation. thank you

@varnikachandrasekara1478 4 года назад

I only just wish he was just as appreciated for all his brilliant genius and unique personality while he was still alive 😢❤

@Methilde 2 года назад

Maybe if he lives older, Monet get recognition after 50 years old.

@martinavenglarova6521 4 года назад

that thing with the future got me ... i thought it was a recent video ... well, hello from 2020

@drusillaattwood3215 4 года назад

I wonder what the splendid Colin Wiggins is doing in lockdown !! Wonderful lecture.

@kasperoon 20 дней назад

It was an absolute pleasure to have listened to him as if it was just yesterday! And yes, this is from the future of 2024. Timeless knowledge and insight of Van Gogh. Thank you.

@zabunzabun 4 месяца назад

Hello from future Japan🇯🇵. It's 2024 cold winter day and this Sunflower picture still warms up my day🌻 I almost cried imagining if Vincent lived longer and kept drawing until he became an old man. He could have painted many many more and would have been recognized as talented painter. He even might have visited Japan and tasted boiled crabs. Because we all love his drawings so much, I thank the people who didn't respect him as preacher, school master, or any other jobs but as a painter.

@Anitalazt 8 лет назад

Lovely lecture, Thank you so much Colin Wiggins for that excellent explanation about the paintings of Vincent, I watched it twice... I hope to get more lectures of you.. Greetings from Spain

@nationalgallery 8 лет назад

+Anita Lazty Thanks on behalf of Colin! We're glad you enjoyed his talk

@vijay-bn4ve 6 лет назад

Hi..for a moment I thought I had found a compatriot..you would perhaps like to know that Anita is a very popular name Indian name! ( as well)

@pepumarius2006 4 года назад

now this is what I call a pleasant and informative presentation!

@elizabethannegrey6285 2 года назад

Wonderful presentation, viewed 2021. Interesting, accessible, and mercifully no background noise. 👏👏👏

@edrodriguez4822 7 лет назад

vincent is boss when it comes to color

@PleinAirAdventureswithTezDower 4 года назад

Amen

@drcommondrate12 4 года назад

Monet and Matisse are better in my opinion. Gogh is good... for being a dissociated depressed person and painting sunflower (lol)

@maclaram11 3 года назад

@@drcommondrate12 No, Monet and Matisse are light bosses, Vincent is the one when we talk about color. Remember that his paintings colors changed a lot through the years, when he painted it, the colors were even brighter.

@georgefreemon2935 3 года назад

@@drcommondrate12 god don’t speak on Van Gogh ever your obviously an idiot.

@Methilde 2 года назад

@@drcommondrate12 Yes, Monet and Matisse can "compete" with him, even art is not a competition.

@ratgirl13 4 месяца назад

2/2024: I’m so glad to have found this channel. The speaker is just fabulous, I like his humor. ❤ I’m saving this video as a favorite.

@jiaoyang5602 3 года назад

Vincent was a simple but loving man, like a sweet child. His mental conditions prevented him from properly expressing his love for people and everything around him. However he managed to show his love for life and the world through his paintings. The love in his paintings is what touches people.

@zarahlimtan6319 Месяц назад

Hello from the future! 😅 Watching this in 2024 ❤️

@damatlisfranco1216 Месяц назад

Same for me!

@msblair2623 3 года назад

Colin Wiggins thank you! You are such a wonderful speaker! I could sit down and just listen to you talk the whole day and I’ll never get bored.

@aimster9908 2 года назад

‘I’m now going to make you well up a little bit’. Here I am 10 minutes later still crying, thinking about the sunflowers on Van Gogh’s coffin and his art around him like a halo. Some lives like Van Gogh truly are brilliant - to have touched us this way, whether a day, a year, or many years later, we still admire his genius and mourn the loss of such a person.

@fernandasa2158 Месяц назад

This videos are great gifts to the public is so important to support the national gallery in London with a donation visiting or doing online through their website 🙏🏼⭐️

@Ziad3195 Год назад

This was absolutely Georgeous

@gretchenzwicker338 5 месяцев назад

What a wonderful speaker. I have read that letter from Bernard, it is unbelievably sad. Even though I have been interested in Vincent and his work my whole life, I never get tired of listening about him. Thank you! Watching this at the end of 2023!❤

@gloriavaldez3754 9 месяцев назад

Brilliantly done Love the lecture on Van Gogh What a wonderful experience to listen to this great lecture I can listen more hours without getting bored. ❤

@abdulahadshabbir2618 4 года назад

I'm watching it in the future

@drusillaattwood3215 4 года назад

Me, too, Abdul. Can't wait for this lockdown to be unlocked so that I can go to London again to visit the National Gallery. Keep safe.

@karenlynne6200 7 месяцев назад

Wow, the best art presentation I've ever heard! Learned so much more about Vincent than I read myself on Wiki before... Kinda wish I could have a little bro like Theo, emotionally & financially so supportive, no matter how rough a loser I get in life, he's there for me always! LOL Very rare pure sibling love! I missed the Van Gogh art exhibition at Ueno Park in Tokyo during my last visit there, didn't know he had such a big inspiration of Japanese art & culture. Darn it! Thank you so much for sharing this!

@speedracer2841 2 месяца назад

I'm watching this in the year 2134 and we're still in love with Vincent 118 years after this video was made.

@margaretfarquhar9567 4 года назад

Vincent is smiling down on this excellent lecturer who portrays him with such reverence Understanding and affection.

@davidthom7127 3 года назад

I could listen to you all day. So amusing and extremely interesting in a very individual way. Fascinating.

@virginiaensinck5828 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for an awesome presentation! ❤ 👏 I'm watching this in august 2023, by the way

@lamkin8664 3 года назад

Superb.

@birgitdierken7756 8 лет назад

I can`t thank you enough National Gallery.After watching your documentary last year the paintings started` talking `to me . A connection had been made and I am now exploring with a great fever paintings and the artists.Thank you for this new love. and thank you Colin Wiggins for introducing me to Vincent whom I thought I knew already.

@barbarachieppo8290 4 года назад

❤

@cngreen2950 3 года назад

Thank you very much!

@icedragonair 4 года назад

The way those hang they look like they're Photoshoped in. So bright. Amazing

@joshin436 3 года назад

He's so knowledgeable, it's so wonderful to listen to him.

@ernerwerkhardt9789 Год назад

Van Gogh was my favorite artist, even before I knew anything about painting. I sent away for a print of Sunflowers when I was about 15, and I still have it hanging on my wall. I once was in the Museum of Modern Art in New York when I saw his Irises. They were so alive and vibrant - I could see the bold brush strokes. It seemed so alive that I was tempted to reach out and touch it - but I'm glad I didn't - it would have been blasphemous disrespect to the work of a great genius.

@sampathrathnayaka3905 3 года назад

What a great explanation about Vincent. Thank you very much !

@rjvgray 3 года назад

Thank you sir...🙏🙏

@samuelnakuna1830 4 года назад

I was so so happy that I did found out that we have a Sunflower Art at home hanging on the wall done by this Great Gentleman Vincent Van Gogh one of his amazing work is Sunflower painting and it's look nice also with his signature on it Vincent.

@teamcrumb 7 лет назад

Colin Higgins is a treat.

@roshnidevi7215 4 года назад

i loved this! Subtle understanding into Vincent's mind, the culture, his Japanese connection. Good talk, Mr Colin Wiggins.

@bredfortbingley1079 7 лет назад

an excellent speaker ! enjoyed this video very much indeed. Thank you.

@jannybloemers9508 3 года назад

Vincent is born in the netherlands,he had make many painting,very nice are all the paintings

@veronicagreen6180 15 дней назад

Watching from Mexico, and it’s 2024 !,,

@alsmith9560 3 года назад

Great job. I keep watching it again and again.

@HAZERO_-pp5dc 17 дней назад

Thank you, Mr. Wiggins!

@jeffrey3498 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much Colin for all you've contributed to the legacy of Vincent. 😎👍

@margaridavelhinho1618 2 месяца назад

I am watching in april the 12th of 2024. I will be there in november to see it in person. See you soon!

@julialeonetti879 8 лет назад

Thank you so much, this was an amazing talk about my favourite artist.

@m.i.miller8008 3 года назад

This was an awesome video. Love how he presents this. So easy to listen to him. Well done.

@jorisbuitenweg441 3 года назад

Beautiful presentation. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

@hunkhk 2 года назад

Mr Wiggins is the best lecturer

@mahletina 4 месяца назад

Im watching this in the future 💛🌻 thank you

@sherrylhenning5630 4 года назад

Once again, for someone like me to have access to not only the art, but to listen to someone who was chosen to speak because of his love of the chosen piece, is a truly enjoyable experience! Thank you!

@avantedestinos 5 лет назад

My dear God. This is BRILLIANT.

@philryan3540 4 года назад

The relationship with Theo and Vincent was such that the great bulk of Vincent's art could be collected in one place in Amsterdam. What a blessing...

@janvanpoppel2814 4 года назад

Theo was obviously key in Vincent's life. We should however not forget the tremendous work that Theo's widow Johanna Bonger did after both had passed away to collect not only the paintings but also the letters and bring these to the attention of the world.

@carolspencer3776 3 года назад

It was Jo Van Gogh-Bongers who made that possible for us. Our work, behind the scenes, like hers, can change lives. Vincent Van Gogh was amazing! So were Theo and Johanna.

@ruxundong 4 года назад

I'm watching it from the future.

@bnkundwa Год назад

He contributed to Art Therapy. The strength of proportions. He relieved the impressionists. Some life styles are sometimes misunderstood.

@esmethornhill-davis6082 4 года назад

Wow I was watching from the future :)

@Suranjan_Malik 2 года назад

Wow. A great lecture. Delighted to hear him speak.

@edithengel2284 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for this wonderful talk. I just finished reading a selection of Vincent's letters, and your lecture brought so much of them to life. I'm sure I would have found him a very difficult person actually to know, but reading his thoughts in letters and seeing his paintings, one cannot help loving him. An artist whose biography perhaps uniquely penetrates his art.

@cyndydejoy6129 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you

@enriquemejiasgarcia5285 7 лет назад

What a fantastic lecture! I hope to get more and more lectures of Mr. Wiggins!

@zarahlimtan6319 Месяц назад

Great lecture about a great artist from a great speaker👌🙌💯 Brilliant job, Mr. Wiggins!

@rahuls2012 4 года назад

Hats off !! to the gentleman who narrated the whole story of Vincent Van Gogh. As he narrated I almost walked through those amazing artworks and also learned about the journey of a great artist. Thank you!!!!

@ericbishop4066 4 года назад

Thankyou

@patriciaduffy2724 8 лет назад

Mr. Collins - thank you so much for this recording. I was getting ready to do the dinner dishes when I saw the link for this video and decided to watch just for a few minutes. Ha - famous last words! Before I knew it, the video was over. Your lecture was beautifully paced and easy to understand, with your love for Vincent palpable throughout. I learned so much and am looking forward to watching more videos - thank you.

@michelelong9877 Месяц назад

I'm from St Louis Mo and watching this in 2024

@lynnbuffone9555 3 года назад

Wonderful presentation!

@hooraayy 3 года назад

i could listen to the lecturer explaining van gogh (or even any other painters) for hours! sounds passionate yet fun!

@tigerwa 7 лет назад

Very informative with an excellent and engaging speaker.

@magicknight13 Год назад

Brilliant lecture from a great curator! Inspiring !

@inessamaria2428 5 лет назад

Great job! Thanks National Gallery for these talks, they are amazing, and a great value for knowledge. Colin Wiggins is perfect!

@elizzievb Год назад

Very nice lecture! Thank you!

@madelstowe7989 3 года назад

Love to see how passionate this guy is. You can tell he loves it

@mariacrisan6202 8 месяцев назад

What an extraordinary presentation!👏👏👏👏

@sofiabecerracalvino6220 6 месяцев назад

I love this maaan he knows so much and he's so funny and smart!!!

@ftimaabdalla1490 3 года назад

I'm from Brasil. Thankful for the beautiful class! Congratulations!

@yezdnil 2 года назад

Definitely watching from the future (5-5-22).. What a fantastic lecture. Who would've thought that a 'simple' painting of a vase of past-their-best flowers could be so emotional? When I walk into the NG's gallery, this painting just shouts 'Look at me!' from the wall. It's like a precocious child, demanding attention. That yellow, even though it's over a century old, is vibrant and impossible to ignore. It lights up the room. It is a wonderful, life-enhancing painting from a great artist. Thank you, Vincent, for putting so much life into this masterpiece for us to enjoy, and thank you, Colin, for giving us such insight into its creation.