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Vincent van Gogh lookalike's art career takes off after being told he looks like legendary painter
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09/11/2023
A struggling artist has seen his career take off - after being told he looks like the late, great Vincent van Gogh.
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I'm Karl Stafford, artist.
00:02
I would class myself as surrealist.
00:05
Salvador Dali, Escher, and all the surrealist movements
00:10
is I really like.
00:12
When I first saw the flat,
00:28
I didn't realize Van Gogh lived in this area
00:31
and he taught in this area.
00:32
We had a look at the flat and decided I was gonna have it.
00:46
And then we sat in the park, Spencer Square,
00:49
and we noticed that there's a bust about that high.
00:53
And we went, "Oh, that's Van Gogh's."
00:55
We read about it.
00:57
Then realized he actually lived here.
01:00
And then he taught here,
01:03
a boys' boarding school across the road.
01:05
And then I looked like him.
01:08
So it was like, "Wow, this is amazing.
01:11
"I'm an unknown artist.
01:12
"No one knows who I am."
01:14
And Van Gogh was kind of like the same.
01:18
No one knew who he was.
01:20
No one recognized him.
01:22
He had no money 'cause it was Theo that kept him,
01:26
his brother.
01:28
So I'm kind of like,
01:30
what do you call it?
01:33
On a par with him, even though it's 300 years ago,
01:38
that he's the same,
01:42
that when he lived here, no one knew who he was.
01:45
And I'm the same, and no one knows who I am.
01:48
And we're kind of like clicked in that kind of way.
01:55
But when I first came to the flat,
01:58
it had students in it, and it was trashed.
02:02
- You said that you looked like him.
02:03
Did you ever get sort of mistaken?
02:06
- I did when I went to the Van Gogh thing in London.
02:11
I took my other half's hat, straw hat,
02:16
and I sat in the room with this straw hat,
02:20
and everyone's looking at me twice.
02:22
And then when it kind of finished, we went to reception,
02:26
the reception lady said I had to look twice,
02:29
'cause I really thought that was Van Gogh
02:31
sitting in the corner with a straw hat on.
02:35
So every now and again, if I put my straw hat on,
02:38
I look like Van Gogh a little bit.
02:40
And I like to think that I'm his kind of like brother
02:43
in the 21st century.
02:45
Good luck.
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