Anselm Kiefer’s lifelong fascination with Vincent van Gogh is taking centre stage in "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" at Amsterdam's Van Gogh and Stedelijk Museums.
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00:00Of course, it's a much tinier scale, but with a huge impact, also because of the colors.
00:29And with Kiefer, it's the same sort of strength and power, but on a mental scale with pasty
00:38oil paint, with flowers, with straw, also with electrolysis.
00:44It's a combination of different materials and techniques, which are sometimes a bit
00:49hidden.
00:50It's also like Kiefer is an alchemist.
00:53He's working like a sort of an alchemist, transforming material into an art.
01:11Still the influence of Van Gogh lingers on.
01:13And as he said himself, he was not so much captivated by the myths of Van Gogh, not about
01:19the depressions, about the disease, about the emotional approach.
01:24And of course, for him, more almost the rational structure of the paintings.