There are many ways to bring children closer to art and to encourage them to experiment, create and discover. One of the artists who “hypnotize” the children, even the youngest ones, is usually Vincent Van Gogh.
This is one of those projects that you may not have heard about yet but surely when you discover it, "Loving Vincent" will love small artists They are at home and you too, of course.
"Loving Vincent" It is a film in which a team of more than one hundred people has been working for more than a year. At the moment we can only see the trailer and it is a visual delight for original and creative.
Van Gogh's paintings come to life almost by magic, the magic of the brushes of the over a hundred artists who have been recreating the particular way of painting of the Dutch artist, until showing this magic at the rate of twelve oils per second. Yes, an animated film painted in oil, I already told you it was an almost magical project, right?
Leading this innovative and ambitious project and this numerous multidisciplinary team are artists and directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, who won the Oscar in 2008 as producer of another animation story, that of "Pedro and the Wolf."
Oils in each frame
Hence the peculiarity of the project, as I said before. They have been taken as a reference more than 120 paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, from the best known by the general public such as Los Girasoles or La Noche Estrellada to many other less recognizable ones, and to the paintings, the tremendous compilation of more than 800 letters written by the painter in order to structure a coherent script about his own life. Life and work through their hands, when writing and painting.
I remember that my children, when they were in kindergarten, had in their class, replicas of Starry Night, Taj Majhal, Discobolo and I loved how they recognized those works right away and how their curiosity around painters awoke, to the countries, to the cultures and to the stories that hid the paintings for them, that did not always coincide with reality but that is not that this was the most important thing.
Wanting to see the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh as soon as possible on the big screen, although for now I tell you that we have to settle for opening our mouths with the trailer, with which we can play with our children to see who knows more works of This special painter and perhaps even encourage us to reproduce some of them, who knows where inspiration can come from!
