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Now I'm at National Gallery Museum in England
There's so many paintings by famous artists here
Like van Gogh, Picasso, da Vinci,
or Monet
So I'll take you around to see the paintings today
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Finally, after going through the gallery
and seeing so many famous artists
we are now in front of an original van Gogh!
Let's go see.
Vincent van Gogh. Gosh, so hard to pronounce!
known by Thais as van Gogh, is a Dutch post-impressionist painter.
He led a very sad life.
When he reached the age of 17-18,
he went to intern at a gallery
that sold paintings.
After interning in his hometown,
he was sent to Paris
which you might know that Paris was the
capital of art.
He thought he was going to succeed in life,
but no. Because he was a sincere person;
didn't like lying or taking advantage
he didn't succeed in selling pictures.
The gallery he was working at liked to take
low quality paintings and
tell people that "This is a masterpiece!"
Therefore, the price is very high.
van Gogh would then whisper the truth
to customers.
The owner then found out
and fired van Gogh.
That was his first episode of the unfortunate series,
so he thought he wasn't good in business
and turned to religion.
So, he plunged into a religious life
he studied and tried to become a pastor.
He got to deliver a sermon in a town
but because he wasn't good with public speaking
[I'm not good with words but my heart is yours]
Not good with speeches, but wanted to be a pastor
didn't work out. He didn't succeed
so he turned his back to religion
and realized that art was his calling.
"If I don't want to sell pictures, I'll paint them myself"
So during 1880 to around 1890,
these ten years, van Gogh
became a painter and produced so many paintings.
Just in a decade,
he painted around
2,100 paintings.
Try estimating how many days he used per painting.
His paintings weren't simple sketches, but
were oil paintings in big frames.
He painted so many works!
His style is post-impressionism:
bright colours, exciting brushwork.
If you look closely at his work, you can see
how his brush swifts.
When they try to prove a van Gogh,
they usually prove it from the brushwork.
Moreover, van Gogh's subjects are usually
simple daily life objects
to show that there's nothing more to life.
Apart from that, he wasn't an introvert, not interested
in meeting other people like other artists,
So he got to meet other renowned artists
especially his best friend, Paul Gauguin
I believe you have heard his name.
Which leads us to the next painting:
"The Sunflowers"
This painting is actually part of a collection.
The collection is entitled "Decoration for the Yellow House."
These paintings were painted to decorate a yellow house.
Yes, literally yellow. This is van Gogh's house in France
which Gauguin was going to stay at for a while.
Out of love for his friend, van Gogh wanted to decorate
Gauguin's room with a painting of sunflowers
"See Gauguin, life is simple"
"There is no need for extravagant decor"
"just a picture of sunflowers can brighten up your day"
This moved Gauguin so much that
he said that the sunflower collection
is van Gogh's best work.
It's his masterpiece.
The two were really close.
When van Gogh was painting that collection,
Gauguin also painted a picture of van Gogh painting the sunflowers
like a painting of a painting of a painting.
They had a really close relationship,
and also had some dramas like
when van Gogh was depressed
because his unsuccessful life.
His paintings were rarely sold when he was alive.
He only became famous posthumously.
Once, van Gogh was painting and got mad.
He took a blade and
chased Gauguin around
and after unsuccessfully hurting Gauguin,
he used that blade to cut his ear off
and then painted a portrait of himself without the ear.
You might have heard this story.
Because of his mental illness, he committed suicide
at the age of 37. Such a short life.
If he lived longer, we would've been
able to appreciate more of his art.
Despite being able to sell only one painting
from more than 2,000 paintings
when he was alive,
his work became a hit after he died.
Many people bought and sold his work.
It could be said that
his life was quite sad. He couldn't even see his fame.
You can see how popular he is.
It's the only painting people look at.
This is "Sunflowers" painted in 1888.
The "Sunflower" behind me,
he painted it in yellow
to show his friendship.
At first, it was hung in
the guest's room in van Gogh's house.
He was very proud of this painting.
Sunflowers are the symbol of appreciation,
and gratitude.
I tried oil paintings when I was little
and I studied from this painting.
Never thought I'd be able to see the original.
I think this is also a type of a nerd.
You might not know I painted too.
I did oil painting, pastel, acrylic
but now all my skills are gone.
All that's left are the illustrations for my videos.
Let's talk about the sunflower collection.
It's a collection because there isn't just one.
Right?
When I showed the painting, you might've wondered
it doesn't look like the one I've seen.
There are 7 paintings is this set; painted continuously.
Each painting is scattered in different parts of the world.
The 7 paintings are grouped into 2 sets.
The first group are the first 4 paintings.
They are the original paintings intended to decorate the room.
The other 3 are his favourites
so he copied the first 4 and made another set.
So where can you see all 7?
Sadly, you can't see all 7.
Because the first is now private property.
We can only see it if the owner lets us.
The second one is even harder to see.
It was bought by a Japanese buyer to be installed in a museum
but during the second world war,
Japan was bombed,
and the painting disappeared along with other stuff.
Now, people are trying to recreate this painting
from old photographs
but haven't succeeded yet.
It's hard to achieve his brushwork
and other elements.
So, we just have to wait.
If you're a fan of Conan the Detective
Surprising to see that they're connected, right?
but in Conan the Movie 19: Sunflowers of Inferno
the sunflowers in that movie
are a reference to this second painting.
The third painting is one of the most famous.
It is in a museum in Munich, Germany.
We now come to
the fourth painting that I saw.
It might be a well-known painting with the yellow background.
Like said, it's in National Gallery Museum, UK.
If you don't want to travel to UK but want to see
the fourth painting,
the fifth, sixth, and seventh are copies of the first set.
The fourth has two copies and one is
at Tokyo, which is the fifth painting.
And the sixth
is at van Gogh Foundation, Netherlands.
The last is a copy of the one at Munich,
now installed in the US.
So that was a brief story about van Gogh's sunflowers.
Behind me is "van Gogh's Chair"
another famous painting.
It shows his chair, his pipe, and tobacco.
I don't know if I should censor the pipe,
but take it as art.
It is a picture of an ordinary chair, on ordinary earth ware floor
and reflects van Gogh's personality
as a simple and sincere person
not extravagant like artists
before him. Take the Romans as an example.
This is one of his significant works.
This is another van Gogh. It might not be well known among Thais.
It is entitled "Long Grass and Butterflies"
and it is literally
what the name suggests.
Very literal.
So it tells us about his character;
that his subjects would be
simple things
which is different from his predecessors,
who would paint about Christianity
have very fancy styles,
put all characters in one frame.
After seeing van Gogh's simplicity,
I'll tell you how exaggerated van Gogh's predecessors were.
So let's go see a lavish artist:
Leonardo da Vinci.
I talked about his biography
in my Italy vlog
where I followed his tracks
to see what he experienced before painting "The Last Supper"
If you haven't watched it
you can click on this link.
Today I'm going to show you
"Virgin on the Rock" or as known as
"Madonna on the Rock."
It is a picture of Mary with
baby Jesus, an angel,
and John the Baptist
who was still an infant.
All of them are in a cave
which is the reason of the title.
Many of you may know that Mary
is fully known as Virgin Mary.
You can see that he tried
to emphasize the purity, the virginity
of Mary through the choice of colours
and the halo on her head
In this picture, we see Mary sitting
and Jesus here
and the angel looking over Jesus.
All the important Christian symbols are here.
But, but, but, like the Sunflower collection,
This painting is also a part of a collection.
There are two paintings in this set.
The first
is at Louvre, France
and the second is the one I saw.
The two have different details.
At first, da Vinci painted
the first one and the commissioner
wanted some things changed
so he had to paint the second one.
It was intended to be hung
in a church in Milan, Italy
but the church
decided to sell the painting.
I believe many of you have read Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code"
that book made da Vinci popular for a while.
Can you remember when he mentioned Maddona on the Rock?
That he said there are 2 different paintings.
The first has all the evil symbols.
It is this painting I'm talking about.
So if you've read the book, here it is.
You might know this painting.
It's one of the paintings that
he co-painted. It's not 100% his work.
It is an
angel in a green dress, playing an instrument
similar to a violin
but it's a viola.
I give up with Italian. Comment if you know how to read.
You must know Picasso.
This is one of his works, but may not be well-known,
but shows us his brushwork
that is not realistic
So during his time
he was considered a rebel of the arts
"Why are you painting this?" "Go paint beautiful things!"
So he introduced a new chapter of art
Right here is a painting
by another famous painter
like van Gogh
which is Monet
Thais may not know, but he is famous so I'll show you.
So you can see the whole gallery.
Monet is van Gogh's contemporary
but he succeeded is his career
and became very rich
that he could buy a house.
In that house he had a big lotus pond
which inspired him to paint this painting
of the pond.
You might be familiar with this painting, so I wanted to show you.
So how was the tour?
It must have made you art nerds
excited to some extent.
If you went to Louvre, when you go see Mona Lisa
or other works, you can only see from afar
and there is always a crowd
but at National Gallery Museum, England,
the works are very accessible
there is only a thin line, and the paintings are inches away
we can observe the brushwork of van Gogh closely.
So if you go to England and like art
I recommend you to go there. It is also free!
And most importantly,
there are not only beautiful paintings,
the building is also fascinating.
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See you next time. Bye!
For those who think that
galleries are boring, and shopping is more fun
It's not like that at all.
Whether you are an art nerd like me
or just a hip person this is a place for you
because not only the paintings inside,
but the gallery building itself
is a dome building, and decorated perfectly inside.
The front is also exciting. I walk past it every day.
It's a square that everyone comes
to show their art. Even street artists
come to draw on the floor with chalk.
Many of them are really pretty. So you can take a walk here.
If you watched, and know any of the paintings
come talk with me down below!