NL - 17th May, 2009 Sunday (Sunny, 10 ~ 20C) Van Gogh Village Nuenen: Buitenschilderdag (Outside Painter Day) & Levenspanorama (Life Panorama ) 2009

It is the 125 years old jubilees of Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) . The foundation wants to celebrate the Outside Painter Day (Buitenschilderdag ) with a particular project , that is the Levenspanorama (Life Panorama), which 51 (amateur) artists use the drawing or painting concepts, elements of Van Gogh to recreate 45 pieces big panorama painting. There were 200*120cm each.

The handbooks of the Lenenspanorama in Van Gogh Village

A Van Gogh memorial and his two famous paintings

The Burgemeester (burgomaster 市長) Nuenen c.a. - Willem Ligtvoet was invited to the opening ceremony of the Levenspanorama.

A speech was given by the Van Gogh Foundation representative

A greeting of the red hat society members with the burgomaster

The levenspanorama of the Starry Starry Night

Have you ever heard of the song "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)" in Dutch? Try the following video...or clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpzzDEGoBf0

Starry, starry night

Paint your palette blue and grey

Look out on a summer's day

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and daffodils

Catch the breeze and the winter chills

In colours on the snowy linen land

Now I understand

What you tried to say to me

And how you suffered for your sanity

And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen

They did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

Swirling clouds and violet haze

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colours changing hue

Morning fields of amber grain

Weathered faces lined in pain

Are soothed beneath the artists' loving hand

Now I understand

What you tried to say to me

And how you suffered for your sanity

And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen

They did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you

But still your love was true

And when no hope was left inside

On that starry, starry night

You took your life as lover's often do

But I could have told you Vincent

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night

Portraits hung in empty halls

Frameless heads on name less walls

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met

All the ragged men in ragged clothes

The silver thorn of bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know

What you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen

They're not listening still

Perhaps they never will...

By Don McLean, Vincent 1971.

One of the levenspanorama of Van Gogh

The entrance of the Levensparonama in Van Gogh Village

Some stalls that sold Van Gogh related products

We met a teacher from the RIS nursery class, who live in Nuenen. She is an amateur artist too.

The cities with Van Gogh memorials sites

Some smaller paintings drawn by the artists for sales to collect found for the foundation

A gentlemen group with beautiful and great songs, like Singing in the Rain, ...... Surf the video to feel the atmosphere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-vZwm3EJ0A

A friend from Maastrict who visited the levenspanorama

A photo with Van Gogh's model (On buitenschilderdagnuenen website http://www.buitenschilderdagnuenen.nl/bsd2009/index12.html )



Some photos with Red Hat Society members ( http://www.redhatsociety.com/)

The Red Hat Society (RHS) is a social organization founded in 1998 for women over age 50. As of October 2006 there are about 1.5 million registered members in over 40,000 chapters in the United States and 30 other countries. They wear decorated red hats and purple clothes.

We bought a paint from the artist who is one of the artists of the levenspanorama No.18

(the left)

A photo taken by http://www.buitenschilderdagnuenen.nl/bsd2009/index13.html when Syuan is drawing with the picture and colour pencils provided by the foundation.

The church that always drawn by Van Gogh was opened to public on the Levenspanorama day

The front view of the church

D.S.TH Van. GOGH. (Vincent Van Gogh's father) is the second 'FATHER' of the church