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In the 1998 film “What Dreams May Come,” a pediatrician played by Robin Williams is transported to the afterlife after a car crash. There, he reunites with long-lost loved ones, and heaven — at least his idea of it — is a series of landscapes that recall his wife’s paintings.
The doctor reaches out to touch a blue flower, possibly an iris. Then, when he wraps his hand around it, the petals dissolve into a thick coat of indigo paint.
Organizers of the “Immersive Van Gogh” exhibition coming to L.A. promise an art encounter that is almost as stunning. The exhibit, slated to open here May 27, projects some of the Dutch painter’s most famous works onto half a million cubic feet of wall and floor space. Like heaven in “What Dreams May Come,” the massive projections of Van Gogh’s thick brush strokes on canvas tempt viewers to touch as they walk through.