Art & Film: Van Gogh/Kurosawa

From the canvas to the cinema.

David Liu | 22 October 2011

The Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing (Vincent van Gogh, 1888; watercolor)

Wheatfield with Crows (Vincent van Gogh, 1890; oil on canvas)

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Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990)

In Kurosawa’s third-to-last film, a collection of vignettes based on actual dreams of the Japanese director, magical realism becomes inseparable from the realms of art and human history. The segment titled “Crows” follows an art student wearing Kurosawa’s trademark hat — credited only as “I” — who finds himself entering the vivid world of Vincent van Gogh through an exhibit of the Dutch master’s paintings.

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