Loving Vincent - © 2017 Good Deed Entertainment

Get ready for the newest Polk Museum of Art series: Cinéma Art Historique! This free-admission film series is designed to explore the connections between art history and cinema. After each screening, enjoy a Q&A and discussion with Dr. Alex Rich, Executive Director and Chief Curator, about how the evening's film aligns with the histories and stories it strives to tell.

First in the series: Loving Vincent (2017). This film, created in oil paint animation, tells the troubled story of Vincent Van Gogh through the investigative eyes of a young man sent to deliver the artist’s final letter.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Art History and Museum Studies at Florida Southern College.

Registration is required, and space is limited. All attendees must wear face masks throughout the program per FSC guidelines. The film screening and Q&A will be held in the Polk Museum of Art's Auditorium.

Registration for this event is closed. If you have additional questions, please call 863.688.7743 ex. 249 or email tnobbe@polkmuseumofart.org.

About the Film

Loving Vincent brings the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil painting, hand-painted by 125 professional oil painters who travelled across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent's brilliant paintings is his passionate and ill-fated life, and mysterious death. Loving Vincent was first shot as a live action film with actors, and then hand-painted over frame-by-frame in oils. The final effect is the interaction of the performance of the actors playing Vincent's famous portraits, and the performance of the painting animators, bringing these characters into the medium of paint.