Intensely lonely, van Gogh was also struck by Roulin's role as a devoted father of a large family. The artist called Roulin "a man more interesting than most" and was fascinated by his distinguishing characteristics: a short-nosed physiognomy, reminiscent of Socrates the flushed coloration of a heavy drinker and vehemently populist politics. Roulin was not a door-to-door letter carrier, but a brigadier who sorted mail at the Arles railway station. There he met Joseph Roulin (1841-1903), who became one of his closest companions. In the spring of 1888, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-90) left Paris for the provincial town of Arles in the south of France. Two of the extant drawings of Roulin, one from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the other from a private collection, were also included. MoMA's own portrait of Roulin, which was acquired by the Museum in 1989, was juxtaposed with paintings borrowed from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston the Detroit Institute of Arts the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Van Gogh's Postman contains five of the six paintings that the artist made of his friend and protector during 18.
VAN GOGH MAILMAN SERIES
With kind cooperation from the owners of the works and from the organizers of this exhibition, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, MoMA's visitors were able to see this remarkable series of paintings and drawings reunited. This exhibition became possible when six of the works were included in the exhibition Van Gogh: Face to Face, on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art until January 14, 2001. Our aim was that Armand should wherever possible, harmonise with the style of the painting he is invading.Vincent van Gogh's portraits of Joseph Roulin - the postman who helped and supported him during some of his darkest days - was the focus of a special exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art from February 1 to May 15, 2001. Vincent van Gogh experimented with a variety of painting styles and techniques, and our hero Armand often enters a scene painted in a different style to his own portrait in Loving Vincent. This live action footage was then used by the 125 painters who worked on Loving Vincent as a reference for the 65,000 oil paintings that were created and animated to produce the final film. Douglas Booth was cast as Armand, and the live action filming of his scenes took place in 2015 in London. We wanted the films audience to be able to see the real people underneath the paintings, and the emotions on their face, so we cast actors who had a physical resemblance to the paintings and who could bring that painting to life. Here are the two other paintings of Armand that Vincent made: The portrait sits in the Museum Folkwang in Essen - here’s Loving Vincent co-Director Hugh Welchman visiting it: However they all held strong views about Vincent, but we wanted a main character who started out rather indifferent to Vincent, and could be drawn into the mystery and magic of his world and the tragedy of his untimely death. At various points in the Loving Vincent script writing journey other characters were the central protagonists of the story. Armand Roulin didn’t have the significance in Vincent’s life that his father Joseph Roulin did. 'Portrait of Armand Roulin’ and our final keyframe.Īs a painting, the portrait of Armand Roulin is not one of Vincent’s most famous works. Vincent painted Armand three times, and his Portrait of Armand Roulin in a yellow jacket is the one from which we took a lead for Loving Vincent: Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Theo van Gogh. “I have done the portraits of a whole family, that of the postman whose head I did earlier – husband, wife, baby, the young boy and the 16-year-old son, all of them characters and very French, though they look Russian ”
His father Joseph was one of Vincent van Gogh’s closest friends when he lived there, and Vincent painted portraits of all the Roulin family. He is drawn into the mystery of Vincent’s death, as he finds out more about Vincent’s amazing life and seeks out the truth about his death.Īrmand Roulin lived just around the corner from the ‘Night Cafe’ and Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Yellow House’ in Arles, France. Armand arrives in Paris only to find that Theo is dead too. In the film Armand’s father sends him to deliver a letter to Vincent’s brother Theo, after hearing that Vincent shot himself. Loving Vincent follows the journey of Armand Roulin, son to Postman Joseph Roulin.
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