Exhibition On Screen |Poets & Lovers
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
Directed by David Bickerstaff
Tickets: £12, Supp
200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition.
This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist.
Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealised 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.
Reviews
The most exciting and dramatic period of Van Gogh's life explored on the big screen
This film uses Van Gogh's revealing letters to better understand this iconic figure