"The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh" with Ephraim Rubenstein

Does this guy have a cocaine problem?

Thank you for your love, and sincerity in humanising this wonderful artist. May we all have even just ONE person in our lives to believe in us!!💖🌈🙌

This is an awesome lecture. We get to know a fraction of Vincent's life and how he sees the world. Johanna's efforts are remarkable! Thank you for sharing these to us.

i don't why a lot of people hate the painting of potatoes eater it's such meaning full painting that full of emotions

I chose to be homeless 5 years ago at 28. I'm a jack of all trades all my money goes towards food, books, art supplies, and local charities and churches.
I'm a loser by societies standards but inside I feel rich. I'm coming up on my 33rd birthday which I feel is going to be my transformation age thought wise.
Just looked into Gogh and my heart hurt a bit. Hits a bit too close to home.

Sorry can’t listen to boring American think they know it all’s. how can he criticise some of his masterpieces. This ignorant person actually earns a living coming out with this shit.

Who did the paintings behind him?

SUCH A GREAT AND MOVING PRESENTATION !!!!!! FROM NOW ON BECAUSE OF THOSE LETTERS I WILL SEE THE PAINTINGS OF THE GREAT SENSITIVE INTELLIGENT CARING TALENTED LOVING YOUNG MAN AND ARTIST VINCENT VAN GOGH WITH EVEN MORE EMOTIONS TY SO MUCH MR RUBENSTEIN WHO AS WELL IS SO PROUD AND TOUCHED BY THE SENSIBILITY AND TALENT OF VINCENT AGAIN THANK YOU FOR THIS MOVING TRIBUTE NON ONLY EXPLANATIONS ABOUT THE LETTERS OF VINCENT MR RU BENSTEIN SHOWS SUCH A GREAT ADMIRATION AND LOVE FOR VINCENT VAN GOGH VERY MOVINGGGGGGGTY SO MUCH

Ask a Dutchman. It's pronounced Van Goff...

Amazing! Too Loud!!!!

A shame the sound quality is so poor and the fellow keeps sniffing.

Awesome, beautiful, full of light. You showed us Vincent, Theo and Jo, and the importance of that human trinity.
Thank you.

Thank you.

He spoke 4 languages

Art was his passion, not his religion.

His love relationships/love interests/not objects -you creep!

This man yelling about Vincents life is so off from the sensitivity of the infp Van Gogh and the introspection and authenticity causing the fights and arguments because no matter how much he reveals himself they cannot understand where he is coming from as a rare personality type .
as an artist and and infp and dutch/coming at understandings in the same kinda way /I can say what Van Gogh wrote is more like a poet then your crude version and the illness was caused from the hardline world /the hash up bringing and the ugly rules of society /and the loneliness of of being such a unique and social and connective human being thats alone because they are to unique to be understood/I understand trying to sell your worth to others who simple cannot understand your truly unique and highly creative brain that's not wired for your so called ordinary jobs/thats like cutting off his creational soul !

I appreciate your Emotion, Sir. Any other way of presenting Van Gogh's Art would be dishonest and possibly immoral. Chapeau, Friend

- Richard Mark Dynes

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He made fun of Potato Eaters painting because it doesn't match his aesthetic preferance, and then cry at the end reading letters. I wish to go there and kick his ass for such a disrespectfull stupid behavior.

He sounds like an interesting man, I'd never heard of him before, someone should make a film about him.

The Potato Eaters is dark and gloomy? What kind of constructive critique is that 🤣🤣🤣My gosh, power needs to be taken away from the hands of these establishment goons who attract a limited amount of personality types to talk about art.

Amazing so meaningful listening to this so grateful thank you!

I love The Potato Eaters ... and I'm an artist myself, it does not take to be Vincent's mother to love the dignity portrayed in the peasant's dinner table ....

He actually sold one painting in his lifetime. It was called The Red Vineyard.

His name is pronounced Van Goff. How can a scholar not get that right? Nevertheless, a good lecture.

Beautiful. So glad I stoped to watch and listen to this. thank you all

Read about Borderline Personality Disorder. I believe he had this problem which along with alcohol issues made it impossible for him to keep a part-time job

the times you disagreed with something, I disagreed with you. < 3 This was a fantastic talk. Thank you so much for sharing!

The Met just closed the Cypresses exhibit. His letters were part of the exhibit and they added so much to the overall experience. Thank you for sharing this lecture. I really enjoyed it.

"Lust for LIfe" is a good film. It's a work of art like a painting is. This guy doesn't understand that. The message is, "Only I understand Vincent, anyone else's version is a fake". God save us from the academics.

I love your analysists 💎

If anyone looks at Van Gogh as a stereotypical starving artist, they are missing the point by a mile.

There was a deep spirituality to Van Gogh's behaviour , at every point of his adult life, this struggle to be of help, to be prolific and yet, to not be answerable to anyone that would try to mould him.

He had moments of disillusionment, the fights with his father, the love hate relationship with the church.

He wanted to be helpful, choosing to stay with destitute or unfortunate women, or maybe thay was the lot that would pay him any heed. In any case, his was rhe struggle to be independent, yet needed, at the same time. Understandably, he was probably a pain to be around.

An honest assessment of the artist.

Why do scholars presume Vincent to be an atheist. Consider the cypresses.
It is the reconciliation of God as Life by knowing art making to be worship

I am not one that wants a Van Gogh painting in my living room. I fail to understand the draw to his work?? Starry night - OK. Sunflowers..No!! The vase looks flat, almost childish.
I feel for his life. But I don't see his art as something I would but up in my home. Just like the Mona Lisa is not the painting out there! I think 90% of people have been told what to see as art. just like the bogus modern art today...total garbage!!!

My favorite artist growing up, i didnt know about the suicide till today. Thats the stuff you dont hear when youre a kid. I appreciate youre honesty and candor in the explanation of Vincent's life.

The photograph of someone sitting in a portrait studio has never been authenticated. He did not like photographs, let alone sit in a studio.

I have just again bought the book of his letters. I had read them before when I was in my late teens. They so enchanted me, that I lent the book to a close friend of mine. You see, I had been so impressed with the letters that I wanted to share them, with the enthusiasm I felt. As I remember, she never returned the book, and I did not ask for its return. Rather, I wanted to believe, she also so treasured the letters, to keep them. Having watched this video has made me feel empty-handed of a treasure saved forever between 2 covers of a book. And so, I want them again with me. They are no less than a work of art, just as are Vincent's paintings. I love Vincent. Even if I cannot touch him to feel his wonderous reality. But at least, I'll have his letters. And that will have to suffice.

I am dumbfounded by the opening statement of the speaker about the first masterpiece “The Potato Eaters” by Van Gogh. The speaker dismissively described this painting as one that “only a mother could love”, then spent the rest of the lecture praising Van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo. I can’t understand why the lecturer failed to see the same spirit and inner self expressed by the same person through both the painting and his letters. Making such a dichotomous remarks concerning Van Gogh’s paintings and his letters shows, at least to me, that the speaker’s opinions about Van Gogh’s art and his life are not completely honest.

Such a wonderful subject and moving lecture. Thank you!

This lecture had me in tears... What a tragic, but beautiful story... Truly human in the best possible way.

Who the hell is sniffing? So annoying.

A PAINTING THAT ONLY A MOTHER COULD LOVE? THAT'S JUST CRUEL BECAUSE I HAPPEN TO LOVE THAT POTATO EATERS PAINTING THAT YOU MADE THAT COMMENTED ABOUT.

Me too❤the letters !!

"The Potato Eaters" always looked like an awkward characature of the peasants Vincet wanted to paint, * until * I saw a Turner Classic Movies travel Shorts of Denmark, filmed between the wars so perhaps around 1930. At that time European peasant class still existed, and people still dressed in traditional cultural garb. And, much to my shock, the peasants on the streets looked, literally, physically, just like these people: thick features, dramatically upturned noses, thick lips, very pronounced and high cheeckbones. What I had always taken for characature was, in fact, literal physical truth painted, as Vincent always painted, to evoke emotion.