Van Gogh’s “Almond Blossom” is projected onto the walls during a press preview of “Imagine Van Gogh” at the SoWa Power Station in the South End. That was the infamous Rolling Stone cover tag line on Jim Morrison in 1981, a decade after the Doors singer drunkenly drowned in a Paris bathtub.
But, Mauger says, “Jim Morrison’s life was different from Vincent van Gogh’s. [Morrison] knew success all over the world. Vincent was an unknown painter when he died. Painting was his life, but he couldn’t live off his work. It’s a sad story. This guy was was so poor during his life and now the paintings cost so much. The only common points I see between both of them is how they both had such difficulties in life.
The promotional language for “Imagine Van Gogh” bills the Dutch painter as “the ultimate cult artist.” While he was prolific — almost 900 paintings, some 1,100 drawings and sketches — he was unknown, unable even to trade a wheelbarrow full of his paintings to pay off a debt. During his lifetime, the impressionist sold exactly one painting, “Red Vineyard,” which went for 400 francs in Belgium.
Projections of Vincent van Gogh’s "The Starry Night" flood the walls and floor and surround members of the media as they experience the press preview of “Imagine Van Gogh” at the SoWa Power Station in the South End.
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