Summary Simon sketches how Vincent Van Gogh was foremost a world-improver, who cared for the common man, working as a 'lay priest' among but got fired by the Dutch Protestant establishment at age 30, and only then turned to painting as a means of continuing his social strife for the poor, while depending on his brother, who became an art gallery-keeper in Paris, for his meager livelihood, as his works' dark themes and colors didn't sell in the colorful, light-focused age of impressionism, yet made his mark on it after a visit to Paris, without becoming fashionable till long after his death in a mental asylum.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Paul Popplewell Allan Corduner Grégoire Bonnet Simon Schama
Genres : Drama History Documentary
Release date : Nov 23, 2006
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Official sites : BBC
Language : English
Summary Simon sketches how Vincent Van Gogh was foremost a world-improver, who cared for the common man, working as a 'lay priest' among but got fired by the Dutch Protestant establishment at age 30, and only then turned to painting as a means of continuing his social strife for the poor, while depending on his brother, who became an art gallery-keeper in Paris, for his meager livelihood, as his works' dark themes and colors didn't sell in the colorful, light-focused age of impressionism, yet made his mark on it after a visit to Paris, without becoming fashionable till long after his death in a mental asylum.
Genres : Drama History Documentary
Release date : Nov 23, 2006
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Official sites : BBC
Language : English
