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  • By: Julian Bell
  • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)
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By: Julian Bell
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Summary

A passionate account of the tortured life and tragic death of the greatest artist of the nineteenth century, by renowned critic and painter Julian Bell.

Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.

Van Gogh struggled to find his way as an artist: Well into his mid-twenties he had achieved virtually nothing except a few charcoal drawings of coal miners. Afflicted by mental illness and a mercurial temper, he was institutionalized several times toward the end of his life. Julian Bell conveys this tragic story with great compassion, depicting van Gogh in all his anguished vigor, a genius for whom the greatest challenge was to stay alive until he had completed his most fully realized and magnificent works.
©2015 Julian Bell (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
Art Artists, Architects & Photographers Europe 19th Century
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excellent story

cellent, fully rounded portrayal of a great but deeply disturbed artist. Great performance. if you have time this book is well worth a listen.

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Beautifully empathic

A wonderful, empathic look at Van Gogh's life, full of understanding and a warmth that comes from the writer's experience as a painter also. Brilliant.

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