However, not even a biographical film starring Kirk Douglas, obscene records sales by Don McLean, or a proliferation of Starry Night coffee mugs, shower curtains and umbrellas could dilute the wonder of seeing van Gogh’s art in the flesh.
Was there more to the man than the myth?
Of course there was; just as there’s more to a painting than a starry night blanketing a village punctuated by a lone, cypress tree reaching for the stars.
This is what I learned about the man.