La Grande Expo : Van Gogh, Peintre Absolu

Canvases exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world, sales that reach heights, a crazy merchandising around his work ... Van Gogh has become a powerful brand. He embodies the absolute figure of the poor and accursed artist. A legend was built around his life, especially through episodes such as the sliced ​​ear, his repeated stays as an insane asylum, or his quarrels winked with absinthe. This story ended up imposing a character of misplaced, capable of all excesses, crushing the artist who will build an exceptional work. The film aims to tell the story of an artist: how Van Gogh, the son of Dutch bourgeois, becomes Vincent the painter? Why wait the last two years of his life, to finally sign his first name his greatest masterpieces? The film highlights the fascinating process of this slow maturation: its repeated failures, its trial and error, its sources of inspiration, from Rembrandt to Millet to the impressionists or the great Japanese masters. A tortuous but exciting life!