Thursday, September 13, 2018
Impressions from the good movie 'Loving Vincent'
Title's a hat doff to VVG - Impressionism. And font colors are in Van Goghian complementary color style- Blue next to orange. (Could have picked Red-green too)
It is monumental that the entire movie is made of multiple art pieces and 100+ artists contributed to it. I thought it was Prisma filter kind of work- but thanks to iDoc and CK for enlightening about this, and also for bringing the movie back into the radar from which it had dropped off a year ago.
I went to the VVG museum in Amsterdam, a few years back, and it was really well done. As for the works themselves- the paintings, the colors and the brush strokes are mesmerizing. Bought a book which I thought would be pride of place in the living room coffee table but which right now is absconding. After the movie, I'm inspired to launch a search party- and if you visit ma crib and are kicking back on the fouton, I urge you to flip through.
The movie is set in the form of a whodunit, a trusted route for snaring audience attention. Now embellish a whodunit's inherent snare-factor with a renowned artist subject, add art-piece rendition (para 1), some moody music- and you have quite an irresistible recipe which will tickle your lachrymose glands more than once. And when Don Mclean's Starry Starry night chimes in at just the right moment, you have to hit pause- it's too much to handle.
If VVG were to be born in today's world, he'd find the going much easier. Only one work of his was sold during his lifetime. Today, it would have just gone viral and would have drawn buyers from all corners of the world, legit or otherwise (say Russian arms dealer cum-art-collector). Further, as SN pointed out, he would have found a community for his art on FB- called Impressionist Painting Studio, leading to reduced feeling of 'loneliness'. Group would have had Monet et al. Further, I suppose the world is so used to change today, that the change from Realist to Impressionist would not have seen much resistance. In this free market economy, creative destruction is the norm, and this is literally 'creative' destruction.
There's the eternal theme played out in VVG's life of "Out of darkness comes light"/"Night is darkest before the dawn" which a multitude of m ovies and authors and success stories have depicted. VVG loses 3 jobs, and writes in one of his many deep letters that he is not accepted in society, and so on, but then all of this hardens his resolution to prove himself as an artist- which he does with panache.
Edit 1: Search party was successful- book has been located. Below is the wonderful cover, consisting of one of his works. Also, one of his evocative works, Shoes. Shoes also reminds me of the sentiment I feel towards my ol' Woodlands after a nice arduous trek.
My own woodlands, in the middle of a trek in some fairly exotic European location, though not in Netherlands where the above shoe would have been been. Mine do look similar to Van Gogh's boots in make, though not as worn:
It is monumental that the entire movie is made of multiple art pieces and 100+ artists contributed to it. I thought it was Prisma filter kind of work- but thanks to iDoc and CK for enlightening about this, and also for bringing the movie back into the radar from which it had dropped off a year ago.
I went to the VVG museum in Amsterdam, a few years back, and it was really well done. As for the works themselves- the paintings, the colors and the brush strokes are mesmerizing. Bought a book which I thought would be pride of place in the living room coffee table but which right now is absconding. After the movie, I'm inspired to launch a search party- and if you visit ma crib and are kicking back on the fouton, I urge you to flip through.
The movie is set in the form of a whodunit, a trusted route for snaring audience attention. Now embellish a whodunit's inherent snare-factor with a renowned artist subject, add art-piece rendition (para 1), some moody music- and you have quite an irresistible recipe which will tickle your lachrymose glands more than once. And when Don Mclean's Starry Starry night chimes in at just the right moment, you have to hit pause- it's too much to handle.
If VVG were to be born in today's world, he'd find the going much easier. Only one work of his was sold during his lifetime. Today, it would have just gone viral and would have drawn buyers from all corners of the world, legit or otherwise (say Russian arms dealer cum-art-collector). Further, as SN pointed out, he would have found a community for his art on FB- called Impressionist Painting Studio, leading to reduced feeling of 'loneliness'. Group would have had Monet et al. Further, I suppose the world is so used to change today, that the change from Realist to Impressionist would not have seen much resistance. In this free market economy, creative destruction is the norm, and this is literally 'creative' destruction.
There's the eternal theme played out in VVG's life of "Out of darkness comes light"/"Night is darkest before the dawn" which a multitude of m ovies and authors and success stories have depicted. VVG loses 3 jobs, and writes in one of his many deep letters that he is not accepted in society, and so on, but then all of this hardens his resolution to prove himself as an artist- which he does with panache.
Edit 1: Search party was successful- book has been located. Below is the wonderful cover, consisting of one of his works. Also, one of his evocative works, Shoes. Shoes also reminds me of the sentiment I feel towards my ol' Woodlands after a nice arduous trek.
My own woodlands, in the middle of a trek in some fairly exotic European location, though not in Netherlands where the above shoe would have been been. Mine do look similar to Van Gogh's boots in make, though not as worn:
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