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Today was another day well spent at Texas.
Oindrila wanted to watch this movie called “Loving Vincent” which was being screened this week at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She had asked me whether I would be interested in accompanying her to the show. I read about the movie and the proposition seemed appealing – “The World’s First Fully Painted Feature Film” and she is a lover of art as well. A nice road trip and a movie, what could go wrong?
Well, how do we go there? We don’t have a car. I still don’t have a US Driver’s Licence. And public transport is non-existent here (compared to where we were born and brought up). She came up with the idea of posting on ZimRide (a carpool service) and fortunately, some nice guy replied and agreed to take us to Houston.
Today morning
She woke up early. I woke up late. Anyway, we both got ready by 10 am. We also packed food for our trip. The guy who was supposed to take us came at around 11. His name was Pulkit and we had another person riding with us, an Iranian girl named Hediya (I guess I spelled it correctly)!
The trip was nice. Oindrila dozed off as she usually does when on the back seat of a fast-moving car.
We reached there by 1 pm. Also, we did some research on Vincent Van Gogh on our way.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Movie
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The movie was about the circumstances surrounding Vincent Van Gogh’s death and the most interesting part – all of the 65,000 frames of the movie are oil painted on canvas by 125 artists from all over the world. The movie was shot in a studio in Poland. The thing which was surprising is that the theater was almost full. There were elderly people mostly who had come to watch the film.
Short Museum Tour
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| Johanna Calle (Colombia) Obra Negra [Black Opus] Galvanized wire, copper, and India ink on cardboard (Looks pretty weird. House headed people.) |
Leon Ferrari (Argentina)
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| Beds (Looks like a blueprint of a house with lots of beds and the bedsheets are folded in a particular fashion.) |
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| Two Streets (Again, a blueprint of houses where two streets intersect in the middle of the frame.) |
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| Crossing (Two groups of men crossing causing a lot commotion in the middle.)
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Trip Back
