VIFF presents Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, November 8 to 17
London’s National Gallery hosts the U.K.’s biggest-ever exhibition honouring Vincent van Gogh, one of history’s most beloved artists
Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers is coming to the VIFF Centre this fall from November 8 to 17.
Two-hundred years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Vincent van Gogh works, London’s National Gallery hosts the U.K.’s biggest-ever exhibition honouring one of history’s most beloved—and perhaps misunderstood—artists.
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 vibrant storytelling, turning the world around him into idealized spaces and symbolic characters. Poets and lovers filled the artist’s imagination; everything he did in the south of France served this new obsession. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it certainly didn’t hold back his creativity as he produced masterpiece after masterpiece.
Tickets to see Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers and more details are at viff.org.
Post sponsored by VIFF.
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