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Slide 2 V I N C E N T VANGOGH Slide 3 V I N C E N T VANGOGH The song you will listen to is called VINCENT, and the singer and composer is Don McLean. This American singer was very popular between adolescents in the 70s. Slide 4 V I N C E N T VANGOGH The song refers to one of Van Goghs most famous paintings, THE STARRY NIGHT. and it is included on McLeans CD American Pie. Slide 5 V I N C E N T VANGOGH People say that when Van Gogh painted The Starry Night, he was mentally ill and so he was hallucinating. Slide 6 Starry, starry night... Paint your palette blue and grey, Slide 7 Look out on a summer's day, Slide 8 With eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Shadows on the hills, Slide 9 Sketch the trees and the daffodils, Catch the breeze and the winter chills, Slide 10 In colors on the snowy linen land. Slide 11 Now I understand what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, Slide 12 They would not listen, they did not know how. How you tried to set them free. Slide 13 Perhaps they'll listen now. Slide 14 Starry, starry night. Flaming flowers that brightly blaze, Slide 15 Swirling clouds in violet haze, Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue. Slide 16 Colors changing hue, Slide 17 morning fields of amber grain, Slide 18 Weathered faces lined in pain Weathered faces lined in pain, Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. Slide 19 Now I understand what you tried to say to me, And how you suffered for your sanity, Slide 20 They would not listen, they did not know how. How you tried to set them free. Perhaps they'll listen now Perhaps they'll listen now. Slide 21 For they could not love you, Slide 22 But still your love was true. Slide 23 And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night, You took your life, as lovers often do. Slide 24 But I could have told you, Vincent But I could have told you, Vincent, This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you beautiful as you.. Slide 25 Starry, starry nights Slide 26 Portraits hung in empty halls, Slide 27 Frameless heads on nameless walls, Slide 28 With eyes that watch the world and can't forget. Like the strangers that you've met, Slide 29 The ragged men in ragged clothes, Slide 30 The silver thorn of bloody rose, Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow. Slide 31 Now I think I know what you tried to say to me, And how you suffered for your sanity, Slide 32 They would not listen, they're not listening still. How you tried to set them free. Slide 33 Perhaps they never will... Slide 34 Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. His first paintings were dark and reflected his deep interest in painting the misery of other human beings. In 1886, Van Gogh went to Paris to live with his brother. V I N C E N T VANGOGH (1853-1890) Slide 35 There he was greatly influenced by the work of other artists, and he adopted brilliant colours for his paintings. In 1888, he moved to Arles in Southern France. During this period, he began to use intense greens, blues and yellows. Slide 36 The painter Paul Gauguin also moved to Van Goghs village. One day they had a violent quarrel and Vincent cut off part of his ear in deep remorse. After this episode he suffered from periodic spells of depression and spent several months in a mental home. He shot himself and died in July 1890. Slide 37