Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved Free Audiobook Download by Steven Naifeh

The audiobook, narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi, is an intense account of the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh. It really helps to have a deep understanding of the artist's paintings, not only on a conceptual level but also on an individual level. The narration is done in different languages including English, French, Spanish, and Turkish.

Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved follows the story of Vincent van Gogh's complicated relationships with his friends and colleagues, many of whom he painted. The audiobook includes scholarly analysis, commentary from art historians, biographies on each of Van Gogh's friends, as well as a painting list.

In this biography, the author begins with a short history of Van Gogh. His family was poor and his father died shortly after he was born. He had a difficult childhood including some very abusive events. The author's writing captures how he would have felt as an artist in the early 19th century, which makes for an interesting insight into how artists were treated back then. The book also goes on to discuss many of the artists that influenced Van Gogh and his admiration for them.

The second book in the trilogy by Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved narrates Vincent Van Gogh's life not as a painter, but as a passionate personality with a love of creation and exploration. The audiobook offers an inside perspective of the artist and his friends, like Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard and Charles Morice.

In his work, Van Gogh’s deepest love was for the Impressionists. He saw them as rebels and heroes who were challenging society’s conventions and its narrow-mindedness about what Art was supposed to be.

'Fajer Al-Kaisi' narrates this audiobook with a musical, flowing tone that makes reading the book an absolute pleasure.