Art Talk


Loving Vincent

Loving Vincent
Loving Vincent, the world's first, fully hand-painted feature film will be released in cinemas soon. Directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman and a team of 125 artists used Van Gogh oil colours from Dutch paint producer Royal Talens to bring Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces to life. Every second of the film is made up of 12 separate oil paintings, resulting in no fewer than 65,000 hand-painted frames. It took the makers six years to create this film about Vincent van Gogh's life and his mysterious death. We needed an excellent paint, given that 125 artists would be working with it and this paint was the only thing spectators were going to see, said Welchman (Oscar winner in 2008 for Peter and the Wolf). That's why we tested the quality, colour palette and price of nine different brands of paint. Van Gogh oil colours emerged as the winner. The fact that the brand name is Van Gogh was purely coincidental, but is quite remarkable indeed!



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