Reflection of the Year 2023 (Part 1) - Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience

 

Felt so surreal

                            

With my delightful and lovely friend, Raani. She's a great company! 

         We spent an hour immersing ourselves to the visual & audio in a 360° multi-sensorial experience where art meets VR, surrounded with artworks by Vincent Van Gogh, Felt so surreal yet overwhelmed with emotions.

        

The famous "Starry Night" artwork being brought to life

The Sunflower Series, which is one of my favourites. And reason being also its one of my favourite flowers! 🌻🌻🌻😊

People enjoying and immersing themselves in the Van Gogh experience.

 Sunflowers! I was so excited and couldn't miss the chance to take Instragramable photos. 🥰

Van Gogh merchandise. No, I did not buy, though I was so tempted to get it especially the cute sunflower Teddy Bear and Sunflower fisherman hat! 😄🌻🌻🧸

Today is the last day of 2023! Time flies indeed!  Looking back and recap, this has been an eventful year. One of the events & experiences has got to be going to the Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience. It was interesting and surreal seated on the beach chair watching Van Gogh's masterpieces come alive. At the same time, I came to know more about the great artist and genius' life and became fascinated- He was such very talented painter but yet struggled with depression and emotional/mental issues. As a young man, he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion, and spent time as a missionary in southern Belgium. Later he drifted in ill-health and solitude. He was keenly aware of trends in art and, while back with his parents in 1881, took up painting. His younger brother, Theo, supported him financially and the two of them kept up a long correspondence by letter. It was sad that his life ended when he was at his prime age at 37. 

He likes to be in nature and several of his paintings reflected on that. I especially like the Sunflower series and the famous Starry Night. It was hard to believe that "Starry Night" was painted when he was in the psychotic hospital. He had such vivid imagination to paint in such detail. 

I wasn't really interested in the Arts previously. I reckon 3 persons introduced me to it and influenced me - My friends, Violet and Ranni....and my ❤️, Robby.