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That's right.
Throw yourself into work.
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I'll be back...
:55:05
...on the 2nd.
:55:08
See you next year.
:55:10
1954!
:55:46
Sunflowers. Vincent van Gogh. 1888.
:55:49
He painted what he felt,
not what he saw.
:55:52
People didn't understand. To them,
it seemed childlike and crude.
:55:56
It took years for them to recognize
his actual technique...
:55:59
...to see the way his brush strokes
seemed to make the night sky move.
:56:03
Yet, he never sold a painting
in his lifetime.
:56:07
This is his self-portrait.
:56:09
There's no camouflage, no romance.
Honesty.
:56:13
- Now, 60 years later, where is he?
- Famous?
:56:18
So famous, in fact,
that everybody has a reproduction.
:56:22
- There are post cards...
- We have the calendar.
:56:25
With the ability to reproduce art,
it is available to the masses.
:56:30
No one needs to own
a van Gogh original.
:56:32
We do. In the Newport house.
:56:36
But it's small. Tiny.
:56:42
They can paint their own.
Van Gogh in a box, ladies.
:56:45
The newest form
of mass-distributed art:
:56:48
Paint by numbers.
:56:50
"Now everyone can be van Gogh.
It's so easy.
:56:53
Just follow the simple instructions...
:56:55
...and in minutes, you're on
your way to being an artist."
:56:59
Van Gogh by numbers?