The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear - BBC2 9.00pm

They are determined to ruin the beautiful mystery of Van Gogh.

You should see my Starry Night!

day and night were Van Goths company.

the sky was over his head, he never unlearned looking up at it.

Did he start the Goth movement?

i noticed that

I have just shown Mr. Makybe the beginnings of my Starry Night painting. And he said good God no wonder he killed himself!

He was going to get steak and chips for his tea tonight, now I'm not so sure

As we used to say at school .He cut off his ear put it in a box and sent it to his girlfriend,
When she opened it she said "here wots this ear"

I'll eat it..

It's already eaten, g2d

Another feckin 2nd!

Aww

Ear ear.....

When Vincent van Gogh got out of hospital in January 1889, with a white bandage covering the place where his left ear had been, he immediately went back to work in his house next to a cafe in the southern French town of Arles.

A still life he painted that month looks like a determined attempt to hold on to the things of this world, to quell his inner turbulence by concentrating on the solid facts of his life.

Around a sturdy wooden table he has laid out a symbolic array of the simple pillars of his existence. Four onions. A medical self-help book. A candle. The pipe and tobacco he found steadying. A letter from his brother Theo. A teapot. And one more thing: a large, emptied bottle of absinthe.

9pm will answer the question ?

Can't wait!

The question is would you have brought one of his paintings at the time ??? I still look at his work now and think ....

Would have definitely bought Starry Night

You can see why he died penniless there is a reason the paintings were average at best and then when he dies hang on this man was a geniuses !

Maybe they should have told him that a bit earlier lol

For all Van gogh's admirers & artists....


Museum’s first exhibition focusing on Van Gogh and his illness.

15 July - 25 September 2016

Visiting address:

Museumplein 6
1071 DJ Amsterdam

link :

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/on-the-verge-of-insanity

I went to an exhibition in Amsterdam, a couple of years ago, it wasn't his museum. It was 3D or something. It was excellent, that's where I realised how much I liked his paintings.

Hey, thanks for the link Tictac. I'll take a look.

Looks interesting. I wish I had gone to museum when I was there. We had planned to but we did so much and didn't have time.

I want to go back.

On now!

Aww, we weren't far from Arles in June. I could have visited.

Bull fights

How can any normal person want to watch a bull fight?

Provence

The Yellow House has gone

Loving this.

Going to be a lady of night fault I fancy.... A broken heart of passion

Hello Tictac. Thought I was the only one watching.

Nice looking town  Arles...full of red tiles & character

I love France. I want to live there.

Ooh, this could be tricky.

Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land. Now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how

perhaps they'll listen now.

lol paxman going to get his ear cut off asking theese difficult family questions

I was in the local council rent office and noticed an old lady sitting in the corner crying.
She had a £20 note in one ear and a £10 note in other.
"What`s wrong with the old lady", I asked the receptionist, "Is there something wrong"?
"Oh", she replied, "She`s £30 in arrears"!

Crags

Mac

Kirk Douglas looked just like Vincent!

7/10 tmm ....you can keep ya ear !

Cool drummers

oh my god fathers ...too funny

Lol yes. This is so emotional.

Makybe
You are right, there was a canny likeness between Kirk and Vincent. The film was very good - Lust For Life.

priceless that drawing of the ear

I'll look out for the film, Mac.

A bloke walks into a pub and sees Van Gogh standing at the bar. 

"Hi Vincent, can I get you a drink?"

"No thanks", replies Van Gogh, "I`ve got one ear".

^^^ quite a poet TMM... 8/10

Interesting programme. I've been to the museum in AmDam and his paintings are fantastic, such thick texture.

That was earcellent  programme.....good luck with your painting MD.... mind ya ears !

Going to watch on I-player....I'm into art....must do some myself !

I`ll get me coat

That was fascinating. A tortured soul.

I don't like Jeremy Paxman but he did a good job there.

Tomorrow I will do more work on my Starry Night

we look forward to seeing it....some fine eyes on chit chatters

I recorded the Peggy Guggenheim programme. It will give me something to watch when the Olympics get a bit too much.

I can't upload pictures to my gallery on my iPad, Tictac