Exhibition on Screen
"Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers "
A FREE Documentary Film
Friday, January 17, 2025
Orringer Auditorium - Two Screenings - 2:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Two hundred years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh, the National Gallery hosted 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 reexamine 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 revolutionized his style, and became consumed with a passion for the landscape.

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. (run time: 90 minutes)