Amazing Lecturer!

Amazing talk about an amazing artist. Vincent Van Gogh is for me one of the greatest painters who ever walk this Earth though he was described (in another NG talk about him) as the "shooting star." His life wasn't long but the impact of his art is timeless. Thank you again National Gallery and to Lucrezia Walker for her talk. :)

What a relief: someone who can pronounce his name.

Thank you for engaging my mind in the life and times of Vincent away from the worrisome times we are all living in now How we want to care for him and comfort him and tell him everything is going to be well. Thank you for posting

Fabulous. My favourite artist.❤️💜🙋😽🇬🇧 X Thank you for sharing your knowledge Van Gogh's life and paintings. I visited an exhibition at South Kensington, London. Was a fantastic exhibition.❤️💜 August 2021.

A really fascinating and informative lecture. Thank you.

Thank you so much for this wonderful lecture!!

Very good lecture. Great presenter.

Brilliant! Thanks!

Really well done ,one of the very best,thanks!!

Thank you. it's a pleasure to re listen this talk!

Thank you , it was very interesting.

Lucrezia, thank you so much for your highly interesting lecture, I learnt a lot from you ! The National Gallery, thank you as well !

Excellent, clear and insightful lecture..

Excellent. Thank you

Van Gogh died July 30, 1890, 37 years old..the anniversary of his death was yesterday RIP Vincent

Chapeau!

At 25:50 the bedroom in Arles is a sort of "Alice in Wonderland syndrome" image as if the bedroom were twice its real-life size. What a great lecture we are watching here this nine years after it was given originally! Thank you National Gallery!

lovely presentation young lady,,enjoyed it very much with my supper alone, and i share Vincent love of art too and followed him, in that i have painted all my life unknown

Very fine talk but I would prefer to listen to the voice while looking at the paintings that is talked about and it would be wonderfull if the paintings were shown full screen most of the time. The paintings talk so much and so strongly of life that the history of van Goghs life is an interesting knowledge but his art is everything - show the art more in talks like this

Best talk yet, unpretentious and full od info

Wow, Well worth the time to watch. what an interesting life and man.

She doesn't seem too pleased that one of Vincent's sunflower is in a private collection and not accessible. :)

Apparently the photo shown at 9:27 is actually Theo it has since been announced.

It's always interesting to me what lecturers do * not * say... The other reason Gauguin went to Brittany, and the main reason imho, was that there was already a small community of artists there who all * adored * Gauguin, and with whom none could compete artistically. This is how Gauguin liked it. Vincent * also * adored Gauguin and had deep professional respect for him, but unlike the other artists Gauguin chose to surround himself with, Vincent refused to abdicate his personal views on art to those of his friend. Really pissed Gauguin off, evidenced by Vincent's ear he then sliced off after the famous Christmas argument on art... We have Vincent to thank for everything Gauguin later created in Tahiti because he chose not to prosecute, leaving Gauguin's (cowardly) accusation of self mutilation to stand... (Witness the many such flower painting Gauguin chose to paint in Tahiti, all with a single eye staring out if the petals. The Eye of God. Conscience.) ..

Just to set the record straight, Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, not April 15, 1853.

Did I hear Professor Lucrezia Walker say "the fact that Gauging himself was from Peru" (35:40)! No, he was not from Peru. According to everything I have read, Paul Gaugin was born in Paris in 1848, but he spent his early childhood in Lima, Peru, where his family had moved, and where his maternal grandfather, Don Mario Tristan y Moscoso lived.

Very interesting, thank you so much, Dear Madam,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

Theo was Vincent's younger brother, not his older.

I am a painter. I would’ve have liked paint you during your talk. The jacket is interesting color with unique buttons.

Vincent was born on March 30, 1853. I'm surprised she got a fairly simple fact wrong

(The Minister had three sons, actually.)

34:36

Refer to very strong evidence online, quoting new research (ie, past 20 years) that : 1) Gauguin cut Vincent ear off, much proof of this, and Gauguin intentionally blames Vincent to avoid jail. Most if not ALL accounts of Vincent overt "mad" behaviour came from Gauguin after the ear event . 2) Very convincing argument has been made that a teenage bully shot Vincent and Vincent covered for him, took the blame, because he knew he was going to die and didn't want to ruin the kids life. I think Vincent made a mistake doing that... 3) Very convincing argument that Vincent suffered from "the Madness of King George", porphyria, which you can also see clearly in the health (or lack of it) of his other siblings and many of his extended relatives in this inbred family - many first cousins marrying first cousins for generations. NOT the kind of "mad" behavior recounted by Gauguin, but "epileptic" fits accompanied by crushing cluster headaches, deep depression (e.g., rendering him unable to move) not remembering, not able to conduct himself independantly, etc.

Van gogh is one of the many painters who, after his death and as many, were praised to heaven by so-called art experts, which was especially beneficial for the art connoisseur because he had already collected quite a few paintings himself or whatever advantage. Van gogh was not at all great artist, but after his death so cleverly put it higher than van gogh really was.

Van Gogh has had to endure thousands of hours of amateur psychoanalysis by art commentators for the last hundred years. This talk no exception.

I wonder how much his dead namesake had to do with it all. It is recognised as having an effect on personality when a person “replaces” a deceased sibling. Spooky.

Contracted depression from his landlady ,that’s absolutely hilarious .

The camera should be focused on the paintings Lucrezia is discussing and not so much on her.

so... how exactly is it thought Vicent van Gogh "CONTRACTED" depression, from his land lady? Using that kind of word is quite disgusting when talking about mental illnesses. People who suffer with depression are not "contagious", nobody can catch depression from someone else, it would be hard even for someone to replicate the depression of someone else. Maybe their relationship was toxic and the problems caused some kind of depression or depressive behaviour, but in no way a person can pass on to another their mental illness. In general is rude to say something like that, but it makes it even worse the fact that has been broadcasted by a public entity.

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Strong yellow :-) , what do you mean? So English...

"contracted depression"

For a highly educated woman, sure says ummm a lot tho