![]() It begins with a walk-through section of written panels that tell the story of Europe’s late 19th-century art world, Van Gogh’s life and his close relationships with is brother Theo, a Paris art dealer who supported Vincent throughout his adult life. ![]() The exhibit is spread through three rooms. It also has a recorded symphonic score that includes an instrumental version of Don McLean’s 1971 ode to the painter, “Vincent.” Many paintings are digitally animated to show the swirling cosmos, wind-blown tree blossoms, waving wheat fields and scudding clouds that Van Gogh rushed to capture on canvas with his choppy brush strokes and thick dabs of contrasting oil paints.Ĭreated in 2020 by Mathieu St-Arnaud and his team at Montreal’s Normal Studio, the exhibit features 500,000 square feet of visual projections and 60,000 frames of video. ![]() Van Gogh’s paintings - more than 300 are featured in the walk-through exhibit - are unbound from their small frames, blown up enormously to wall size in the large Wyland exhibition hall. But what is special about “Beyond Van Gogh,” which opened Fridayand has recently been extended through May 8, is how its use of projection mapping, digital animation, music and visual storytelling allows the visitor to experience the world through the artist’s eyes. So it’s no surprise that Van Gogh’s mass-appeal, instantly recognizable paintings are the subject of a new immersive touring exhibition now on exhibit the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Although Van Gogh sold only one painting before his death at age 37 in 1890, today he is the world’s most popular artist, and several of his paintings have sold for more than $100 million apiece. “But we also chose the works for the stories they tell.During his short and troubled life, Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh struggled for years to translate the colors, beauty and motion he saw in his head on to canvas.Īs the world knows now, Van Gogh found that creative breakthrough in the final two years of his life, when he moved to Southern France and exploded with colorful creativity, sometimes turning out a new painting every day. “Naturally, we have to include Starry Night, Sunflowers, the works known best,” said art history consultant Fanny Curtat when I talked with her at the preview. ![]() Only gradually do the intense, vibrant colors appear, in images from the South of France where Van Gogh spent his last days. As I walked through during a media preview, what I saw first was some of his darker, more somber work-the faces of peasants, farmhouses and outbuildings, gray and black landscape, not just on the walls but flooding over onto the floors and benches. The immersive loop of the experience in the grander space does not necessarily hit you at first with the expected rich blues, greens and yellows we most often associate with the artist. If you’d rather put yourself first in the space where approximately 300 of the artist’s works combine with music, movement and technology, and then walk back to the entrance to expand on what you’ve just seen and felt, you can do that, too. If you prefer to read up a bit on Van Gogh and his life before you head to the vast space where the primary portion of the exhibit exists, you can do that in the first couple of galleries, where background information and quotes fill you in. Those who go can experience the show in different ways. ![]()
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