![]() ![]() He is known for his inner struggles, but his art transcended that. “You don’t see darkness in the paintings,” she said. While Van Gogh’s reputation as the rock star of all tormented geniuses now seems fixed, Curtat said, the artworks themselves say something different about Van Gogh’s mind. Eventually she gave her collection to what became the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Step into the life of Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch genius, as you go on a journey through some of his most iconic masterpieces. The visit will take around one hour with final entry one hour before close. Virginia Beach Convention Center (Exhibit Hall D) 1000 19th Street. He might have vanished without a trace from the art world, she said, were it not for his sister-in-law, Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger, who devoted years of her life to preserving and showing his paintings. Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience is a unique immersive experience that takes art appreciation to a whole new level. Friday & Saturday: 10am 9pm (last entry at 8pm) Sunday: 10am 7pm (last entry at 6pm) Labor Day: Open. Tragically, Van Gogh died by suicide just as his paintings were starting to earn overdue respect, Curtat said. Many of the masterpieces we know best today - like “Sunflowers” and “The Starry Night” - were painted after the troubled artist had sliced off one ear and checked himself into an insane asylum. The narrative emphasizes that, even as the yearning and driven Van Gogh (1853-1890) became increasingly unhinged, his art reached extraordinary heights of originality and power. On their way to being swallowed up by the main attraction, visitors stroll alongside panels that relate a quick version of Van Gogh’s biography and quote the revealing letters he wrote to his main supporter, his art-dealer brother. ![]() Visit the exhibition website to learn more about COVID-19 safety protocols, which include proof-of-vaccination and mask requirements, as well as timed entry. When The Columbian visited on a recent Thursday morning, that huge room was well attended but not crowded, with plenty of room to move around. A visit takes about an hour, during which hundreds of Van Gogh artworks appear, overlap and fade away again as they’re projected on the walls of a hangar-sized room. ![]() The colors are so bright the textures are so intense.” “His work already looks like it’s leaping towards you. “He is an easy fit for an immersive experience like this, with a body of work focused on light and movement and color,” said art historian Fanny Curtat, a member of the “Beyond Van Gogh” creative team at Normal Studio in Montreal. Vincent Van Gogh’s own larger-than-life self-portraits can’t help winking as we stare. Slashes of black paint flap their wings and fly across undulating skies brushstrokes add color and texture to churning landscapes and shimmering surf rooftops fall away as we rise into a starry night so deeply blue, it’s accompanied by a lazy jazz trumpet. If Vincent Van Gogh were alive today, this might just be how he’d want his artworks to be displayed: moving, flowing, floating, overwhelming.Īrt comes alive in “Beyond Van Gogh,” an immersive multimedia experience that’s drawing masses of masked-up art lovers to the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. ![]()
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