"Van Gogh: Brush With Genius" in IMAX May 26, 2010

Van Gogh’s signature brush strokes, vivid yellows and deep blues light up the five-story dome screen as you dive into the heart of his paintings. It’s enormously larger than life. On Van Gogh’s self portrait with a pale blue background a one inch brush stroke would be more than three feet long. The painting is 25 inches high and 21 inches wide. On the dome it is 3,000 square feet. In conservative terms it would have taken at least 15 gallons of paint to create an original the size of an IMAX® image.
For the first time in IMAX® discover the work of this great genius as it takes on a new life — watch as a sketch becomes a painting filled with color and texture. Share the painter’s joy at discovering how using complementary colors heightens the colors.
Van Gogh: Brush With Genius retraces the artist’s footsteps, from the Netherlands to Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise. Documentary filmmaker Peter Knapp portrays himself as he draws on Van Gogh’s personal letters to his brother to provide intimate insight into the work of one of the most celebrated artists in the world. Hélène Seuzaret portrays Ellen Bakhuys — a contemporary museum researcher, the only fictional character in the film, studying Van Gogh’s letters and notebooks.
Tickets for Van Gogh: Brush With Genius are $8.50.
Tickets for Van Gogh: Brush With Genius and Science Museum exhibits and demonstrations are $14 for ages 4-12, 60+ and active military and $15 for ages 13-59. Children 3 and under are free.
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