Lecture: Van Gogh. Without myths and without regrets

Lecture. Painting with Blood: Van Gogh Without Myths and Without Pity

The lecture will take place on Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM!
Venue: Offline in the space of “Plato’s Cave” and Online in Zoom.
Lecture recording: yes, for participants.
Lecture language: Ukrainian.

Another story about a poor artist with a cut off ear? Not this time.

The scorching Provençal sun. A yellow house where the paint never has time to dry. A lonely man who writes to his brother: “I paint so fast, as if someone is chasing me.”

He does not paint a picture.

He releases onto the canvas what inside him tears him to pieces: the sun that cuts his eyes, the sky that spins like crazy, and sunflowers that burn so that you can hear them.

Paris in flowers and umbrellas from the summer. But he has only a room, hopes that will never come true, irony and genius. One year in Arles - and 200 paintings that still beat us in the chest harder than any manifesto.

This is not the story of a poor madman with a cut off ear. This is the story of a man who taught the world to see emotions naked.

What is the lecture about?

Van Gogh's painting technique: speed, pastyness, color as emotion
A real chronology of events from 1888–1890: the ear incident, his stay in the Saint-Rémy hospital and his last months in Auvers-sur-Oise
A biography without myths: how an artist with no formal education, no money and no institutional support changed the history of art forever
Key works: “Sunflowers”, “Starry Night”, a series of cypresses, “Cornfield under a Stormy Sky” - an analysis of composition, color and symbolism
Contemporary significance: why Van Gogh's work remains the most influential in the history of post-impressionism and relevant even after 135 years
The sun becomes a knife, paint turns into blood, art ceases to be beautiful.

It becomes the only way to survive.

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Lecturer:
Bogdana Nosenok - PhD, cultural scientist. Researcher of French cultural studies and the methodology of the "new historical science" of the Annals school, interdisciplinary approaches to cultural analysis. Translator of literary works from English, French and Italian. Among her translations are classic works such as "1984" and "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott, "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy-Maud Montgomery, "The Secret Garden" by Frances Burnett, "Mithra-Varuna" by Georges Dumézil, "Disintegration of the System" by Franco Freda and others. Author of the travel novel "Distance".