We are thrilled to welcome Patrick Bade back to JW3 and he will take you on a virtual tour of The National Gallery's winter blockbuster "Van Gogh: Poets and lovers" containing some of the artists most beloved and famous pictures drawn from collections around the world.
This thrilling exhibition attempts to present a fresh view of Van Gogh and his art. He emerges as less the tormented and doomed figure of popular imagination but instead, in the words of the National Gallery "an artist of lucid intention, deliberation and great imagination." Few artists in the history of Western art pack the emotional impact of Van Gogh. From across the wide spaces of the National Gallery rooms his paintings have an almost visceral effect with their singing colours and bold brushwork.