Description
“The art of Vincent van Gogh continues to speak to people the world over. The leading Van Gogh Museum alone welcomes an average 1.6 million visitors per year. As a great-grandchild of Vincent’s brother Theo I am particularly enthusiastic about this title: the characters of Vincent, Theo, and of their contemporaries Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard are grounded in their actual correspondence and have an immediacy that will give any listener a deeper understanding of the motives that drove Vincent as both a man and an artist.” – Willem van Gogh, great grandson of Theo van Gogh, brother of Vincent
Narrated by Helen Mirran
Van Gogh is the first of a series of icons to whom we pay tribute. Although his name and genius are globally recognized, it is a well-known and tragic fact that Vincent himself did not live to see his life’s work and inspirational message recognized and embraced. His legacy makes us all alive to the difficulties of life and art and to the human capacity to overcome adversity and tenaciously strive to touch the world. If his story shows anything it is that belief in one’s talent, and passion, focus, and persistence in struggling to nurture and express it, are the keys to unlock our potential for success . . . and lie within anyone’s grasp.
The audio-biography format is the ideal means to reach as large an audience as possible. Expertly written and beautifully narrated, its modest duration of less than two hours serves as a short but serious biography for those culturally interested but too young, busy or energetic to linger, while the accompanying books instill curiosity with the wider legacy, its history and its actuality.
