'Like looking into Van Gogh's soul': National Gallery hosts spectacular show of Dutch painter's work

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London's National Gallery is hosting a stunning Van Gogh exhibition, featuring his iconic Sunflowers painting, which has left the United States for the first time since 1935.

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00:00This is actually the first Van Gogh exhibition that takes place at the National Gallery in

00:24London, which is quite extraordinary.

00:26It is also a moment when there are extraordinary works of art that have never left its museum's

00:33walls.

00:34The Sunflowers from Philadelphia, the interior courtyard of the hospital in Arles is a work

00:40that has never been shown outside of its museum, and there are several others like that that

00:46make this exhibition quite extraordinary.

00:53The exhibition focuses exclusively on the time Van Gogh spent in the south of France,

00:59which was a moment in which he not only created his greatest works of art, but also for him

01:04a very, very essential time in which he intended to craft his oeuvre, to develop his identity

01:11as a modern artist, and also to create a position for him among the avant-garde that he knew

01:19from Paris.

01:26This is such an extraordinary, unique experience, both for the Gallery, but for the visitors

01:34as well.

01:35I mean, I've never before felt my heart beating as much as I have walking around these.

01:41I don't feel like I'm just looking at a Van Gogh painting, I feel as though I'm looking

01:45into Van Gogh's soul, and that at the same time he's looking back at me.

01:50It's quite amazing.

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