You don't need to know anything about art history to recognize Vincent Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night.'
Visitors will start out in an Introduction Hall, where Van Gogh's own words are used to introduce him. Fanny Curtat, art historian for the project, said Van Gogh is misunderstood by many art fans, who know him only from his painting and the infamous incident where he cut off part of his own left ear.
Visitors will then enter the Waterfall Room, where Curtat said people will walk against a current of projected images to set the tone for the main Immersive Room. There, the walls and floors are covered in projections of 300 of Van Gogh's most famous works, on a 35-minute loop. All told, there are 4 trillion content pixels involved in the show, bringing the artworks to life in a high-resolution, 360-degree moving spectacle.
Van Gogh's works are particularly well suited to a show like this, Curtat said, because many of his pieces have a sense of movement to them. At Beyond Van Gogh, they actually move."His paintings seem to be leaping off the wall," she said."People remember the movement of 'Starry Night' more than anything about the painting."
There are up to eight versions of the show on tour at any given time and about 3.5 million people have seen it in about a year and a half. It's running in Anchorage, Charleston, Hartford, Omaha and Reno, and opening soon in El Paso, Sacramento and McAllen, Texas. The shows are nearly identical, Curtat said, with a few adjustments based on the venue.
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