Alberto Angela puts herself on the trail of the “cursed” artist Vincent Van Gogh in Ulysses

From tonight (at 9.30 pm on Rai 1) he returns with three new episodes Ulysses, the pleasure of discoveryconducted by Alberto Angela. After the dedication of last February to Sicily of Montalbano And to Andrea Camilleri, the program moves to Amsterdam (and not only) to tell the life of Vincent Van Gogh, The painter who with the light and colors of his works was looking for eternity.

The journey starts from Provence, where the Dutch painter moved shortly before he died suicide: Arles, Saint – Rèmy – De – Provence, the Montmajour abbey, here Van Gogh painted i Sunflowersthe Starry night on the Rhonethe Iris and the Red vineyardperhaps the only picture he managed to sell while he was alive. Yes, “because Van Gogh did not aim to be loved in his time, but he painted for posterity,” said Alberto Angela last night a What time does it do. “He was ahead over time.”

During the episode we will also immerse the letters that the painter wrote to his brother gallery owner Theo, to whom Van Gogh was very tied up .. Massimo Recalcatipsychoanalyst and essayist, will provide a mental identikit of the painterretracing the complex relationship with the father and the influence that a dead little brother, also called Vincent, had on him.

It has often been discussed that the painter was a “cursed” artist with a bipolar personality. Ulisse Try to clarify also on this personal aspect. Was it his past that determined the psychotic crises that culminate on December 23, 1888 with the famous ear cutting? Or the problematic relationship with the colleague has to do with it Paul Gauguin? And what led the painter to commit suicide to Auvers – Sur – Oise? Alberto Angela He also moves to that place, where the high painter fired.

Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery The painter Van Gogh, gallery owner and his painful human story, loves, the loves, also troubled, especially the one with the prostitute Sien, immortalized in different canvases, tells.

In the next episodes Alberto Angela will move to London To tell it through the music of Beatles by David Bowie, Freddy Mercury, Amy Winehouse and many other British icons. The last stop will be Istanbul where he will retrace history of Lucrezia Borgia.