Simon Schama's Power of Art
Van Gogh
Season 1 Episode 6 of 8
The historian recounts the inspiration behind Vincent van Gogh's Wheat Field with Crows - a work created in the summer of 1890 that saw him hailed as a visionary genius only weeks before he killed himself. Schama charts van Gogh's early life, and Andy Serkis plays the troubled artist in a dramatisation of events
Simon Schama's Power of Art airs on BBC Four HD at 2:35 AM, Wednesday 18 June. (Subtitles, sign language, audio description.)
Topics
Andy Serkis
Actor
Simon Schama
Writer
Basil Comely
Executive Producer
Clare Beavan
Series Producer