By Evie Ward
It is an amazing experience to visit the Vincent Van Gogh exhibition and is something that is easily accessible from where we live in West London. It is an outing that would be enjoyable to go on with your family or even with your friends if that is the sort of thing you are into.
What it includes:
As you start the exhibition, you walk into a room inspired by one of his most famous paintings Sunflowers. Here it gives you a bit of background on his life and how he started painting. Once you have completed this part of the exhibition, you walk into a room that presents a lot of his most famous work, including a 5 minute long video of the background of an internationally famous piece The Starry Night. This video encourages you to think deeper about his life because the scene was captured through the eyes of Van Gogh from his view from his asylum. As you go through the exhibition, you begin to learn more and more about Van Gogh. For example, we learn that in his life, he only sold one painting which was half the reason that he fell into a deep depression causing his life to end in a tragedy.
The creators of the museum have managed to display his work in such a way that really connects with the audience and makes them think twice about the man behind these priceless works of art. For example they turned his famous painting of his bedroom from The yellow house into a real life scene.
What else they have to offer:
The exhibition also offers a VR artistic immersion. The Immersive Experience features a one of a kind Virtual Reality interactive, which guides you on a ten-minute journey through “A day in the life of the Artist.” Walk alongside Van Gogh during this peaceful and visually enriching journey to discover the inspiration behind eight of his iconic works, including: Vincent’s Bedroom at Arles and Starry Night Over The Rhone River.
There is also a room for drawing and colouring where people of all ages can go in and experience different methods and perspectives shown throughout the depiction of one picture. You can scan your art here and stick it up on the wall.
My favourite part of the exhibition was the interactive room where there is a large projector covering the whole room called the Immersive Experience. The Immersive Experience is a 20,000 square foot light and