Exhibition on Screen Series | Van Gogh Poets & Lovers
Preview from YouTube above.Two hundred years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood.
This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist. Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionized his style. Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealized spaces and symbolic characters.
Poets and lovers filled his imagination; everything he did in the south of France served this new obsession. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it didn’t hold back his creativity as he created masterpiece after masterpiece. Explore one of art history’s most pivotal periods in this once-in-a-century show. Made in close collaboration with the National Gallery.
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My shots from the show. Apologies to those sitting behind me, I only held up my iPhone for these 4 shots.
Well, maybe a couple more which I missed completely.
The show meant sitting for an hour and a half, not a bad way to spend a hot afternoon. But when you think of all the other movies in much more comfortable seats, with sound systems that wouldn't make it very difficult for me to understand the narrators...the cost was not quite worth it.
Did I learn anything new about Van Gogh? Maybe his love of yellow? Nah, I already knew that.
I observed his most prolific period was from the hospital in 1889 (the year before his suicide.) Or were these just the gallery's collection for that show? It was thorough and thoughtfully narrated by art experts.
But films of paintings don't really do justice to the art. I've taken too many art history courses with slides and overheads to not have that opinion. So my visit to the Art Museum in Asheville was best enjoyed by seeing art on the wall.
