ROCKLAND — A presentation of Exhibition On Screen’s Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers will be screened on Saturday, June 14, at 5:30 p.m., at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. A second screening will take place Tuesday, June 24, at 1 p.m. 

Working with top international museums and galleries, Exhibition on Screen creates films which offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from leading historians and arts critics. 

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery in London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition.

"Vincent Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood," said the Strand, in a news release.

This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist. Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionized his style. Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealized spaces and symbolic characters. 

Poets and lovers filled his imagination; everything he did in the south of France served this new obsession. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it didn’t hold back his creativity as he created masterpiece after masterpiece, said the release. 

Tickets are $15/General Admission, $12/Strand Members. Tickets are available online at www.RocklandStrand.com, by calling the box office at (207) 594-0070, or at the walk-up box office when the theater is open for shows and 30 minutes prior to showtime. For more information, visit www.RocklandStrand.com. 

The Strand Theatre is located at 345 Main Street, Rockland