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Watch These Five Movies About Vincent Van Gogh Before (or After) You Visit the BEYOND VAN GOGH: THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE Exhibit – Extended Through January 2nd in St. Louis
“When I paint the sun, I want people to feel it revolving, giving off light and heat.”
The popular interactive exhibit BEYOND VAN GOGH: THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE is extending its stay in St. Louis at at the Starry Night Pavilion through January 2nd, due to high ticket demand. Tickets are available now HERE
Here’s a clip from local news channel 5 news about the extension:
Imagine being completely immersed in more than 300 of the greatest works of post-Impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh. Now imagine experiencing all of this art liberated from its two-dimensional limitations into a three-dimensional experience that exhilarates every sense and brings to life one of the most influential artists the world has known. It’s all part of Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience (www.vangoghstlouis.com), which has sold over two million tickets globally, making it one of the most popular current traveling exhibitions.
Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience was created by French-Canadian Creative Director Mathieu St-Arnaud and his team at Montreal’s world-renowned Normal Studio. “We are so grateful and of course honored by the audience’s positive reaction and enthusiasm towards the experience.” commented Creative Director, Mathieu St-Arnaud. “Since it’s early inception, we knew we wanted to create a very personal and awe-inspiring experience for the audience. When we feel the appreciation, it’s hard to put into words the wonderful feeling it gives you. It’s why we do what we do and it makes all the hard work worth it.”
“We are thrilled that audiences in St. Louis have responded so positively to Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,” said Justin Paquin, Co-Producer, Paquin Entertainment. “We are excited that more Van Gogh fans will be able to see this exhibition.” Guests are transported into Van Gogh’s world through an all new, exclusively designed space comprised of three areas that segue fluidly into each other. The Education Room leads into the unique Waterfall Room which flows into the Immersive Experience Room. Freed from their frames, Van Gogh’s spectacular paintings appear on projection-swathed walls inviting guests to fully immerse themselves into the incredible detail of his work and be enveloped in his ever-shifting, swirling and colorful flowers, cafes and stunning landscapes. And, hearing the artist’s own dreams, thoughts and words set to a symphonic score drives an unmatched narrative experience.
Cinematic Van Gogh exhibitions have crossed the ocean from European cities to North America in recent years and met with great critical acclaim, with sold-out audiences in every market. Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience continues to amaze audiences and will continue its extended run in St. Louis before moving across North America. Art lovers near and far will have the opportunity to live this truly unique and unforgettable experience.
WHEN: Extended through January 2, 2022
WHERE: The Starry Night Pavilion on the grounds of the Saint Louis Galleria
TICKETS:www.vangoghstlouis.com
DETAILS: The exhibition is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Four entry times will be available each hour. Tickets are sold online only at www.vangoghstlouis.com. Prices begin at $33.99 for adults and $19.99 for children ages 5 to 15. Children under 5 are free.
SCHOOLS INVITED TO APPLY FOR BEYOND VAN GOGH-FUNDED”KEEP LIVE ALIVE SAINT LOUIS” GRANT. One lucky St. Louis area high school will win a $5,000 grant from Keep Live Alive Saint Louis, funded by the Beyond Van Gogh exhibition. Imagine a world without music, theatre, dance, or art. Whether you’re performing or watching, composing or listening, creating, designing or teaching, the arts enhance our lives and our spirits. Schools are urged to be creative and enter the Keep Live Alive Saint Louis 2021-2022 Grant Contest.
Who is Eligible?: Any high school, public or private in the St. Louis Metropolitan Region.
What is the Award?: A one-time $5,000 grant for the winning entry.
What is the entry deadline?: December 3, 2021
How do I enter? Go to Keep Live Alive Saint Louis (www.keeplivealivestl.org) for more information and guidelines. Fill out the application and submit to: grants@keeplivealivestl.org
There is a still huge interest for all things artist Vincent Van Gogh. His well-documented life, much of it in his own words in letters to his brother Theo, combined with the more than 2,100 works he created in a little over a decade, offer a seemingly endless treasure trove of material. We Are Movie Geeks has five movies (in alphabetical order) about the artist we recommend watching before (or after) you experience the exhibit
AT ETERNITY’S GATE (2019)
During a self-imposed exile in Arles and Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, Van Gogh (Willam Defoe) develops his unique, colorful style of painting. While grappling with religion, mental illness and a tumultuous friendship with French artist Paul Gauguin (Oscar Isaac), Van Gogh begins to focus on his relationship with eternity rather than the pain his art causes him in the present. Though Willam Defoe was 62 years old when he played as Van Gogh (who died at age 37), he pulls off an acting tour de force as the deteriorating, emotionally and mentally unstable artist that landed him an Oscar nomination.
LOVING VINCENT (2017)
LOVING VINCENT is an eye-popping and original look at Van Gogh’s life and final years told through the animation of more than 130 of the artist’s works. Nominated for an Oscar in 2018, the film sparked controversy by casting doubt on the long-accepted story that Van Gogh committed suicide. Filmmakers Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman spent five years applying the talents of more than 100 artists who painstakingly animated frame by frame the images Van Gogh painted from life, resulting in a uniquely artistic 93 minutes. Loving Vincent was an earnest labor of love expressed in brush strokes.
LUST FOR LIFE (1956)
LUST FOR LIFE is a biography, based on a novel by Irving Stone, of Van Gogh from director Vincente Minnelli and starring Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn in an Oscar-winning supporting performance as Paul Gauguin. While the film leaves out parts of Van Gogh’s life, it hits the high points. Douglas portrays Van Gogh as a sensitive man with a spiritual sense of life. Van Gogh seeks from the beginning to express God in some way and to give something to the world. He is unsuccessful as a minister and eventually takes up painting, supported by his loving brother Theo (played by James Donald).
STARRY NIGHT (1999)
A magic potion returns artist Vincent Van Gogh (Abbott Alexander) back to life and lands him in the center of the Rose Bowl Parade in STARRY NIGHT, an oddball comedy from 1999. Of course, no one believes who he is and he is startled to discover his popularity after the passage of time. This sets him off on a crusade to steal his paintings back from collectors and sets a detective on his trail. Along the way, he makes friends with an ambulance chasing attorney and a young artist (Lisa Waltz), who gradually begin to believe his claims of identity. STARRY NIGHT is a somewhat forgotten low-budget fantasy but it’s a charming and clever fish-out-of-water story.
VINCENT AND THEO (2007)
Directing legend Robert Altman directed this complex 3 ½ hour TV biography that focused on Vincent Van Gogh’s (Tim Roth) relationship with his art-dealing brother Theo (Paul Rhys). Vincent is the black sheep of the family, an artist who lives in squalor with whores, peasants, and fellow artists. Theo, who can’t get people to buy his brother’s work, feels both superior and inferior to him. Outwardly different, they have matching souls. Tim Roth conveying the poverty and hardship of the artist’s life while also reveling in the beauty he found in surrounding landscapes. The film received a theatrical release after being shorn an hour.
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