A visitor takes a video of an autoportrait by Vincent Van Gogh during the press preview of the exhibition "Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise, last months" at Orsay Museum in Paris on September 29, 2023.An AI bot based on the painter Van Gogh responded to questions asked by users.The exhibition is dedicated to the final weeks of his life.
As the 40 or so paintings at the Orsay exhibition make clear, his final weeks were extraordinarily prolific, full of masterpieces, includingAll the more surprising is that this period has never been given a dedicated showcase, said Christophe Leribault, Musée d'Orsay president. As well as the Van Gogh chatbot, visitors can also don a virtual reality headset to enter the kitchen of Dr Gachet, where Van Gogh spent time in his final weeks, take a surreal trip around an enormous version of his paint palette and plunge into the tree roots of his final painting.