Pokémon’s Van Gogh Museum collaboration looks extremely weird

Vincent Van Gogh endured great suffering during his life. The artist suffered psychotic attacks and was addicted to alcohol and smoking. Even though he achieved international fame following his death in the year 1890, the Dutch Painter failed to find success commercially despite the lasting influence he had on the art scene.

Had he lived to the ripe old age of 143, however, Van Gogh may have found joy in Pokémon —The following are some examples of how to get started: had he held out just a few years longer, he assuredly would’ve become a player of Pokémon Gold and Silver, in which Sunflora, the Sun Pokémon, made its debut.

At least, that was my initial, idiotic thought when viewing the teaser trailer for whatever The Pokémon Company and Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum have cooking up. It appears to be an exhibit featuring Van Gogh-ified versions of Pokémon, including a Sunflora inserted into one of the painter’s many studies of the flower. Van Gogh painted sunflowers “with the gusto of a Marseillais eating bouillabaisse,” he told his brother Theo in a letter sent in the years just before his death. The 1889 Still Life SunflowersThis is one of his best-known works.

One can only wonder what Van Gogh would have thought of other Grass-type Pokémon, such as Oddish, Tangela, and Bellsprout. This horrible thought exercise may be explored, however, by the Van Gogh Museum’s partnership with Pokémon.

Sunflora in Van Gogh’s style has already been created. Van Gogh’s ghost, who I assume frequents the museum, will assuredly be bewildered by this creation (and hopefully others) when the Pokémon × Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam will host a collaboration starting on September 28.