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What does an ‘unforgettable, multi-sensory experience’ have to do with Vincent van Gogh? – The Conversation AU

The blasting of giant reproductions with surround sound is an experience that has little to do with the art it purports to honour.

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Review, Van Gogh Alive, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney.
In one of his many letters decrying modern art, Lionel Lindsay, my favourite aesthetic reactionary, wrote, Pauvre Vincent but he had his idea!
Vincent van Gogh, who changed forever our ways of seeing, was indeed an artist of ideas. Because of the intensity of his life his poverty, his sense of both the glory and judgement of God, the way he died more than any other artist, he seems to embody the abject.
It was only after his death th…

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