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Peter Smith

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Has anyone been to the Van Gogh Experience show at the National Gallery? I've got tickets for December 18th. According to a letter in the Guardian today the queues are round the block and the waiting time is hours even if you have got timed tickets.  I don't like the idea of it anyway but my sister is insisting I go to broaden my mind! I'd rather just look at the paintings. If you've been did you enjoy it? 

Norrette Moore

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Peter, see my notes under the 'Staffage' topic, how to beat the queues etc.  Also we are approaching half term, so avoid that. For anyone who cannot get to London, the lovely Exhibition On Screen people have already filmed the show.  This will be shown at your nearer fleapit, with possibly a shorter version on SkyArts once the physical exhibition is closed in January/February. https://seventh-art.com/product/van-gogh-poets-lovers/

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Marjorie Firth

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I’ve seen Monet’s Gardens, Vermeer and JSSargent exhibitions at the cinema - well worth it! The Van Gogh Experience, if it’s the same as the one which has toured, is fun but it’s no way like looking at his actual paintings. I’ll certainly be looking for the Van Gogh at the cinema.

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Marjorie Firth

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Yesterday we went to the cinema to see “Poets and Lovers”, the Van Gogh exhibition on at the moment at The National Gallery. Well worth looking out for it in cinemas at the moment. No crowds and closeups of the paintings.

Norrette Moore

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Sounds great Marjorie.  I have another visit to the exhibition at the gallery in January, but I will probably buy the DVD from Exhibition on Screen also. Wondering if the film made reference to his "people at work" paintings. Next year I intend to 'people' my landscapes.

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Skylar Brown

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I'm sure  you will enjoy it. I got to see the "Impressionists" tour back in the '70, at the Met in New York. I had always seen those images in books, or on TV. It was a real rush to be just feet away from the real thing. ENJOY!
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Well done Skylar, for rescuing this thread from the AI spammers.  Yes, I agree with you, too - I'd love to see these paintings face to face; I've seen the paintings of Kurt Jackson in the flesh, of whom some of you will know, and can only admit that paintings onscreen just aren't the same: still good, of course, but there's no substitute for being there: it's the size, the texture, the brush-strokes, and much more.  
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Tony Auffret

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When looking at such pictures, it’s a bit unsettling to realise that if you sold all your assets and all of your children’s assets you would still not be able to afford a single one of them.

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