S1E6:Van Gogh
Simon Schama's Power of Art
24 Nov 200651 minTV-14
It may have been his final painting. Certainly it was created in the last days of his life. But how much can be read into Van Gogh’s masterpiece, Wheat Field with Crows? He wrote of feeling like a bird trapped in a cage. But the painting also harnesses the rush of life that so many of his later works possessed. Art expert Simon Schama weighs up the despair and triumph contained in the painting.
