Sedona News – Sedona International Film Festival presents the Exhibition on Screen series with “Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers”. The film will premiere in Sedona on Wednesday and Sunday, Nov. 6 and 10 at the festival’s Alice Gill-Sheldon Sheldon Theatre.
200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting 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. Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealized spaces and symbolic characters.
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.
The Exhibition on Screen Series is generously sponsored by Goldenstein Gallery.
“Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre on Wednesday and Sunday, Nov. 6 and 10 at 3:30 p.m.
Tickets are $15 general admission, or $13 for Film Festival members. Tickets are available in advance at the Sedona International Film Festival office or by calling 928-282-1177 or online at www.SedonaFilmFestival.org. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona.