Thank you for this! I was a painter for the film “Loving Vincent”. I’ve always loved Van Gogh’s work, but appreciate him even more after working on the film. I read most anything I can about him and especially enjoyed Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White Smith’s recent book, Van Gogh: The Life. I look forward to more talks about works in your collection and hope to see it in person someday!

@katespencer1928

4 жыл бұрын

What a fabulous opportunity. I loved the way the film gained texture and motion from the hand-painted slides. i am wondering if you were all painting in one room together, or working remotely as you would be in these days of self-isolation.

@denapeterson1112

4 жыл бұрын

Kate Spencer , I was working in a large studio in a warehouse in Gdansk, Poland. There were about 90 cubicles created with a station that secured the boards on which we painted. Above us, was a camera to photograph each painted frame before we scraped the paint and repainted the movement. We had a computer screen where we could check our animation and export each photo. Most of us were painters, not animators, so we had to be taught some animation skills. It was very tedious work; I spent 8-10 hours a day painting in this small cubicle! The film required 65,000 oil paintings for 90 minutes of animation. ❤️

@katespencer1928

4 жыл бұрын

@@denapeterson1112 That is so interesting to know, thank you!

Thank you so much. I was suppose to be leaving next week for Amsterdam with plans to go to the Van Gogh Museum. Because to you I will more enlightened when I finally get to the museums of The Netherlands.

Martha, this is terrific! Thank you! I see Van Gogh's appreciation for his friend's strength and humanity in a much deeper light now. Thank you so much for bringing us this joy and beauty now!

One of my many favorite Barnes painting. I love these take outs. Even though I live in the area I find it hard to find time to visit the gallery often. This is so much fun to get a daily takeout. Please keep them coming.

Really enjoying these “daily servings of art.” Thank you for providing them.

Thank you! Love the mini art history class.

I love Van Gogh. Keep it coming

Barnes take-out is delightful and hopefully it will continue after the pandemic panic passes.

Thank you! Loving this series. I'm training to be a docent at the San Diego Museum of Art, so it's a real delight to see these works and learn more about them.

Thank you for helping us slow down and look at a great work of art.

Thank you Martha 😊

This is my favorite painting in the collection! Thank you for this. I am enjoying it while I miss visiting in person!

Love these daily take-outs! Thank you!!

Thank you for the ‘art take out,! It is so nice to see wonderful art and hear more about the artist and the paintings. I shared the initial video with friends and family ...they all thought it the highlight of their day indoors! Look forward to the reopening of the collection

I'd love to see more stuff like this. I just wish that you would talk more about the painting itself tho and not your connection to van gogh. Like give me cool details. Where was it painted? When? Why? Who was van Gogh's postman? How did he come to pose for him? Did he like it? Etc. And technically, what kind of paint was used? What kind of brush? Can we tell if he did it all at once or in pieces or what? I would love if they took a painting each day from the gallery and did a 15-20 min showcase each day to describe history and techniques. And I wouldn't mind if at the end of that the presenter wanted to add their personal touch.

Thankyou so much for these videos 😊 really looking forward to seeing and learning more. Best wishes from the 🇬🇧 😊✨✨✨

Once again - fantastic break from a crazy day. So this was Van Gogh's drinking buddy and ultimately friend? - so interesting to learn something new about a painting I have seen many times before.

Thanks for this!! I love learning about art

To say that I love this painting doesn't add much to the dialogue here. So do many of the, oh, millions who have seen it since its life as a museum holding (the Barnes for pretty much all of that). It is among my favorites of the Barnes collection, and I think I can say I have spent extended time in front of it maybe 40 times. But I did have another encounter with the painting very recently that utterly lifted my spirits, as does this walk-through here and some of the great commentary attached to it. It was an accidental sighting as the painting appears, unframed, in the background of the masterful movie 'At Eternity's Gate.' It's a quick view, nearly fleeting, but this notion that I was seeing it very close to its creation, just one of many stacked haphazardly against the wall, I just let out a gasp. Renewed appreciation for all those past encounters, and really looking forward to the next ones.

Great idea! Almost feel like I'm getting out. Love getting exposed to art I haven't seen before and love hearing about it from people who love it. Thanks!

beautiful. thank you.

great - thank you!

Woot!

Love this and yesterday's too. Note: Loved how yesterday, you showed Renoir's painting on the wall at the Barnes. The Barnes is famous for the composition of various paintings on each wall in each room. Hoping you'll include a comment and room wall picture with each discussion of each painting. Again love this and I am in!!

Since spirituality was mentioned as a reason for the uneven eyes, I thought I would put in my two cents. As a professional portrait painter for many years, I have noticed that one eye is almost always droopyer than the other. I would even go so far as to say that I can guess if the subject is right or left-handed on that basis. In relation to religious admiration like an icon it would make sense that it is the left eye that is more open, as the window to the soul.

Nice commentary! I learned a lot. I wonder whether Roulin might have suffered from Rosaces.The bright red on the cheeks, the redness and edema of the eyelids, especially the left, and what looks like a mild turning out of the right lower eyelid are suggestive.The flowers and the light green background reflect to me the warmth between the artist and this man.

I would love it if you would talk more about the elements of the painting... The asymmetry of the eyes and the connection to the traditions of Byzantine art was wonderful... Why do you think he used one method of applying paint on the figure and a different on the ground? I remember talking with Mr. Church about this painting and him relaying a story about DeMazia saying that his choices were "unfair", but that because it was a VanGogh they would not throw it out... Also when you see a photograph of the painting in this video, I noticed a swirl to the composition... the patterning of the background meeting the pattern of his lapel and beard... and it really accentuated the central elements of the face. It hid the naturalism of the facial components because you were drawn in... I would love it if you talked more about what Barnes wrote in reference to his objective method and looking at the piece... or future pieces... As Dr. Barnes collected this for a specific reason... and I would love to be privy to what he saw... or wanted us to discover?

“All my work is based to some extent on Japanese art...” Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, in a letter from Arles, July 15, 1888. It was surprising that this exploration of The Postman (Joseph-Étienne Roulin) omitted mention of this key influence.

Such an interesting observation about the "salt and pepper" beard, in fact made up of multiple colors.

I wonder if this is the only painting of Roulin that van Gogh signed. It could very well have been a gift to his friend because of the signature. Would you happen to know?

In regard to the facial assymmetry in the painting -- it looks like it could be consistent with a mild facial nerve palsy. So may be a reflection of Moulin's true appearance rather than an homage to Byzantine icons.

Can I have this painting. I just want to keep it for a while and then sell it.

Isnt the name VAN GOG but she say VAN GO............ plus if Vincents brother was a semi famous art dealer why could he never sell one of vincents painting and if so why didnt he buy one or two and say that he sold them to give his brother hope ?

This portrait of Roulin, so says the lecturer, is remarkable for taking as its subject an ordinary common person as opposed to a famous historical or political one. The painting was done in 1889. Manet was painting common people as early as 1862 Manet did a portrait of Berthe Morisot in 1872. Renoir did a portrait of Irene Cahen in 1880. Manet and Renoir can be classed as Impressionists while van Gogh is a Post-Impressionist. So choosing a commoner as a portrait subject was nothing new at all. And, I'm sorry but I canNOT feel the warm or the friendship between them in this painting! That is as blank an expression as I have ever seen on canvas ! If there is any emotion to be seen it is, perhaps, disdain or haughtiness.

This was unfortunately difficult to listen to. Too many ums & the speaker seemed unenthusiastic.