Painting Pictures: Loving Vincent (Dir Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, 1h35m, 2017)
Loving Vincent (US Theatrical Poster) Cinema, and the world, love Vincent Van Gogh. For an artist who debatably only sold one painting in his lifetime via his brother, Theo ('The Red Vineyard', which now hangs in Moscow)-although this is largely discounted by the extensive letters between the Van Gogh brothers-Vincent van Gogh now rubs shoulders with the superstars of modern art in both fame, prominence, and marketability. It is, after all, difficult to imagine his contemporaries enjoying the same rock-star treatment; Gauguin collaborating with Pokémon to release a keenly collected set of exclusive for museum cards, or Cezanne teaming up with Vans for a series of skate shoes, don't quite have the ring, the visual shorthand of flowers and stars, and rolling countryside, the certain je ne sais quoi coolness as Van Gogh. Much of this has to do, in simple fashion, with the sublime narrative arc of the painter's life, struggling with his own demons, yet producing stagge
