Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers

Two hundred years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery 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. Made in close collaboration with the National Gallery.

“Daring and dazzling.” The Times

"Extraordinary." The Guardian

“Mesmerising.” Time Out

“Astonishing... magnificent." The Independent

“Magical” Town & Country

“A once-in-a-lifetime exhibition” Forbes

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“This Van Gogh blockbuster is simply stellar... the exhibition of the year.” Evening Standard

“A riveting rollercoaster ride from Arles to the stars.” The Guardian

“This daring, dazzling exhibition gives us a thrilling sense of the artist’s transfiguring genius, showing how he remade the world around him with beauty, hope and searing colour." The Guardian

“This great show explores Van Gogh with moving and addictive aplomb.” The Guardian

“A magical journey through the artist’s mind.” Town and Country

“An astonishing testament to the quality and sustained rate of work he achieved while at Saint-Rémy, and the scale of ambition that continued to motivate him.” The Independent