Simon Schama's Power of Art

In 1890 Vincent van Gogh painted his greatest masterpiece, `Wheatfield with Crows'. Yet a few weeks later he had killed himself. Was the painting a cry of anguish that he would never realise his dream of creating an art revolution, or was it a shout of triumph that this kind of painting would be the new art for the people?

Category

Art

Original air date

18/06/2007