Even these with only a smidgen of data about artwork may have heard of Vincent Van Gogh, the Nineteenth-century Dutch painter who reduce off his ear and later reduce quick his personal life.
He is concurrently well-known and notorious for his artwork (particularly Sunflowers and Starry Night) and his psychotic episodes.
In simply ten years, he produced an enormous physique of labor of two,100 artworks, together with 860 oil work, a lot of which he churned out with frenzied ardour within the final two years of his life.
The Van Gogh Immersive Experience shows 200 of his most vibrant, most expressive and dramatic work, together with Starry Night and Sunflowers, in addition to a nifty movie that reveals all the varied colors schemes of Sunflowers that the post-impressionist artist created.
The exhibition spans a number of rooms. The first shows his work with the narrative round his quick 37 years of life, highlighting his relationship together with his brother Theo Van Gogh, a significant love of his life and later his tempestuous relationship with Gaugin.
âI feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love peopleâ
He was born within the Netherlands, lived in Belgium and ended within the south of France, the place he died in 1890 by his personal hand. During his time in Arles he produced âStarry Nightâ and âBedroom in Arlesâ.
In one other room, his work are recreated or created in 3D, and also you get to see a recreation of his bed room in a psychological asylum. You may even attempt your hand at drawing. Van Gogh templates are provided with crayons or color pencils so that you can create your individual paintings.
The immersive expertise appears like getting into a portray. The 360º nearly holographic projections of his chaotic life that change in time with Vivaldiâs 4 seasons, and also you get to look at from a deck chair.
âI dream of painting and then I paint my dreamâ
The exhibition shares the VanGoghisms equivalent to âI feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love peopleâ and âI dream of painting, and then I paint my dreamâ as a stream of ideas.
The spotlight of the exhibition is the Virtual Reality expertise that takes you on a journey round Arles, displaying the varied inspirations of his masterpieces. It is unbelievably lifelike, and seeing the colourful colors and the world by Van Goghâs eyes is an superior expertise.
Verdict
Van Goghâs story is painful, and this exhibition offers you a chance to saunter by his tortured thoughts, seeing the world by his colour-blind eyes. The Virtual Reality journey is a heady mixture of magnificence, poignancy and exhilaration. Go expertise it.
More data: Tickets begin at £19.90. Book your tickets at Van Gogh Immersive Experience