Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh - Poets & Lovers 12A

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This film was last shown on 23 January 2025

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. 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 re-examine 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 revolutionised his style. 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.

Also available to book: Exhibition on Screen: Dawn of Impressionism - Paris 1874 and Exhibition on Screen: Michelangelo - Love and Death.

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Director
David Bickerstaff
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2024
Duration
1 hour 30 minutes
Language
English

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