Visitors at the exhibit “Van Gogh Alive – The Experience” examine the artist's famous "The Starry Night" as flashed simultaneously on the different screens and on the bare floor. (Photo : http://grandeexhibitions.com)
No, the Dutch artist didn’t rise from the dead. That is far from happening.
What will actually happen is Van Gogh Museum’s "Meet Vincent van Gogh," a series of exhibitions aiming to narrate the painter’s life through his artworks, letters and sketches, among others.
The artworks to be exhibited are only but reproductions.
Artnet News describes the exhibit as “a traveling, multimedia, immersive experience.”
"Meet Vincent van Gogh" will tour 40 cities of the country, according to the Global Times. It will begin in May 2016.
Another Van Gogh event has already started showing in the country this year.
“Van Gogh Alive – The Experience,” a multimedia exhibit, premiered in New World Taiping Lake Park (Taipingqiao Park) in Shanghai’s Xintiandi District in May.
Grande Exhibitions, headquartered in Australia, created and operates the exhibit, which it describes as “a thrilling display” of more than 3,000 images of Van Gogh in “a vibrant symphony of light, color and sound.”
“This exhibition redefines a traditional museum experience, displaying Van Gogh’s masterpieces in larger-than-life proportions. Visitors can expect to be astonished and drawn into the splendor of this experience,” said Catherine Wilson Horne, president and CEO of North Carolina-based science center, Discovery Place Inc.
Wilson visited the exhibit when it toured the U.S.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Post-Impressionist painter.
Two of his masterpieces are “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” (1890), now owned by a private individual, and “The Starry Night” (1889), now hanging at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, opened on June 3, 1973. It houses 200 of his paintings, the largest collection in the world.
The year 2015 marks the artist’s 125th death anniversary.
Van Gogh’s fame lives on and his paintings continue to command hefty price tags.
Bloomberg reported that in May 2015, Van Gogh’s “L’Allee des Alyscamps” (1888) was auctioned in New York for $66.3 million.
In Nov. 2014, Wang Zhongjun, the billionaire chairman and CEO of Huayi Brothers Media Corp., bought “Still life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies” (1890) for $61.8 million, reported Sotheby’s.
Van Gogh also influenced one painter of Chinese ancestry.
Fuzhou-born artist Jonas Han-Chong, who is now based in Lima, Peru, held an exhibit called “Traces of Civilization” at the Historic Brownsville Museum in Texas, USA, from July 31 to Aug. 12, 2015.
Han-Chong’s stepdaughter Luciana Morales told Valley Morning Star that Van Gogh and Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) were his biggest influences.
As people wait for "Meet Vincent van Gogh," they can catch “Van Gogh Alive – The Experience” in Beijing’s Joy City Mall beginning Sept. 9 and in Hangzhou’s Creative Industry Center starting Oct. 1.
