3dRose Van Goghs Bedroom in Arles by Vincent Van Gogh - Greeting Cards, 6 x 6 inches, set of 6 (gc_128156_1)

[MUSIC PLAYING] DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: "Only here colour is to do everything, and by its simplification a grander style to things is to be suggestive here first of rest, or of sleep in general. In a word, looking at the picture ought to rest the brain, or rather the imagination." DR. BETH HARRIS: So the passage that you just read came from a letter Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo, and it actually refers to the first version of this painting. But the passage that stands out for me, "in this painting colour has to do everything," applies equally well to this painting. And when I think about that phrase I think about a radical idea that happens in the end of the 19th century with painting. The formal elements-- the color, the lines, the shapes-- painters begin to explore the way that these elements can be expressive on their own. DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: What you're talking about is the root of