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Today I'm at the National Gallery in London to see a brand new exhibition about Vincent van Gogh.
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And this is one of his most famous works.
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This is Sunflowers and it dates from 1888.
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And sunflowers are inextricably associated with van Gogh.
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He once declared, "The sunflower is mine." And that's not hard to believe when looking at this painting,
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this symphony of yellow tones, grey.
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And in this oil painting we have 15 sunflowers,
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all at different stages of their life cycle from young blood through to maturity and eventually decay and death.
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And so although this might seem like a straightforward still life, there's plenty of ways people have interpreted this over the years.
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Perhaps it follows the Vanitas tradition of Dutch 17th century flower paintings which emphasise this decay and death, the transience of human life.
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The sunflower
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associated with love since around the 16th century and this was
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because just as the sunflower turns to follow the sun
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so the true believer also turns to follow Christ so perhaps there's a religious undertone here too.
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Now if we look closely we can see
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that van Gogh has used long strokes
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which follow the direction of the petals the leaves and the stems and some have said that there is curving lines.
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The paint here is incredibly thick in places and this is usually described as impasto,
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a technique used in painting where the paint is laid on very thick
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so you can actually see it raised above the surface.
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In other areas of the canvas you can see small raised dabs of stippled paint
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which create the texture of bristling seed heads.
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So there's all kinds of different techniques on this canvas paintings.
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However the visit ended in tragedy.
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Two months in the artist began fighting.
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Van Gogh threatened Gauguin with a knife and then cut off part of his own ear.
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Gauguin returned to Paris and they never saw each other again.
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So it's a tragic story but quite remarkable that within that darkness Van Gogh managed to create such beautiful works of art.
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Now in the exhibition today there are plenty people often pick off on is his extraordinary use of colour,
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the way that he might use red, for example, in the sky to create clouds, or blue as shading in a brown landscape.
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There's also plenty of swirling lines which make these landscapes feel alive, as if you could feel or see the wind rippling through the long grass, through the trees.
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realism.
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They captured an impression of the scene or even something more,
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perhaps they captured the impression of the light changing or an atmosphere or an emotion or a feeling.
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Now this exhibition, Van Gogh Poets and Lovers, is at the National Gallery from the 14th of September to the 19th of January
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so if you are in London make sure to pay it a visit.
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And just to end, one of my favourite 3rd of September, 1888.
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In a painting he wrote, "I'd like to say something consoling, like a piece music.
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Well, I think when visitors come to this exhibition and take time to look at these incredible paintings,
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I'm sure that they will find much to console them and much to delight.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Van Gogh at the National Gallery ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : painting, Gogh, sunflower, van, exhibition. Cette vidéo contient 41 phrases et 545 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 4:15. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 128 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. Seuls 81 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
sunflower nom/ˈsʌn.flaʊ.əɹ/tournesol
decay nom/diˈkeɪ/décrépitude
canvas nom/ˈkæn.vəs/toile
bristle nom/ˈbɹɪsəl/soie
inextricably adverbeinextricablement
ripple nom/ˈɹɪp(ə)l/ondulation
undertone nom/ˈʌndə(ɹ)təʊn/sous-entendu
believer nom/bɪˈlivɚ/croyant, croyante
realism nom/ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/réalisme
symphony nom/ˈsɪm.fə.ni/symphonie
interpret verbe/ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/interpréter
straightforward adjectif/ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/facile, aisé
maturity nom/məˈtjʊəɹɪti/maturité
texture nom/ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/texture
threaten verbe/ˈθɹɛt.n̩/menacer

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotPrononciationSens
cut off verbe/ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf]tailler, couper

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

StructureDans la vidéo
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenanthave interpreted · have said
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitis usually described · is laid

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 3 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, I'd. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: shade /ʃeɪd/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: realism /ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/, maturity /məˈtjʊəɹɪti/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: texture /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/, tragic /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/, tragedy /ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: sunflower /ˈsʌn.flaʊ.əɹ/, bristle /ˈbɹɪsəl/, ripple /ˈɹɪp(ə)l/, undertone /ˈʌndə(ɹ)təʊn/, realism /ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/

Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo

  1. Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
  2. Répétez phrase par phrase à vitesse normale, en reprenant chacune jusqu’à ce que votre rythme corresponde à celui du locuteur.
  3. Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme sunflower, decay, canvas.

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