Van Gogh is a 1948 French short black and white documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. It won an Oscar in 1950 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
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Claude Dauphin as récitant / narrator (voice)
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1948 film by Alain Resnais
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“I am sure you will like it, it is such a fine business [art-dealer].. ..I am so glad that we shall both be in the same profession [art dealing] and in the same firm [Goupil and Co.]”
“..by going on drawing those types of working people, etc., I hope to arrive at the point of being able to do illustration work for papers and books.”
“Do you know what I long for sometimes? To make a trip to Brabant. I should love to draw the old churchyard at Nuenen, and the weavers. To make, for instance, during a month, studies of Brabant, and to come back [to The Hague] with a lot of them, for a large drawing of a peasant funeral for instance.”
“I am not working for myself alone, I believe in the absolute necessity for a new art of color, of design, and - of the artistic life..”
“This art that we are all working in, we feel it has a long future before it, and one must have some settled base, like steady people, and not like decadents. Here my life will become more and more like a Japanese painter's, living close to nature like a petty tradesman.”
“The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.”
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Van Gogh is a 1948 French short black and white documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. It won an Oscar in 1950 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
Claude Dauphin as récitant / narrator (voice)
Van Gogh is a 1948 French short black and white documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. It won an Oscar in 1950 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).