Vincent Van Gogh Art Documentary Clip High Art of the Low Countries

Vincent Van Gogh Art Documentary Clip.
High Art of the Low Countries.

Following a brief period of decline, the entrepreneurial and industrious region of the Low Countries rose again to become a cultural leader in the modern age. Despite its small and almost insignificant size it produced important forward-thinking artists like Van Gogh, Mondrian, Magritte and Delvaux, who changed the face of art forever.

Van Gogh is today one of the most popular of the Post-Impressionist painters, although he was not widely appreciated during his lifetime. He is now famed for the great vitality of his works which are characterised by expressive and emotive use of brilliant colour and energetic application of impastoed paint.


"The real van Gogh, the Academy would have us believe, was "a truly great intellect", but in his 902 surviving letters, 1,200 drawings and 800 or so paintings I perceive no towering intelligence in any conventional sense but an overflowing torrent of ideas and images and the obsessive energy of, if not the lunatic, then certainly the savant in the wry contemporary sense of an unruly and inexplicable intellectual phenomenon. Too soon he was exhausted by the driving of this demon."
"his work developed at a rattling pace, his singular handling of paint, often an immediate response to his inventive handling of reed pens or quills in drawings that have neither imitator nor equal, separating him from the mature Impressionists.
In truth, his ways of seeing and every single quirk and mannerism of line and outline, exaggeration and distortion, rhythm and stroke, were constant from the very start, and the earliest paintings in this exhibition, the big, ugly, awkward and inaccurate but heroic studies of peasants, the hatching, detail and extent of the landscape drawings, even, in many cases, the small sketches that are integral with letters, are characteristics of van Gogh and could be by no one else."
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