Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers review – eye-aching, heartbreaking and unmissable

National Gallery, London
Gathering together 61 of Vincent van Gogh’s masterpieces from around the world, the National Gallery’s once-in-a-lifetime show lets the art speak for itselfAt the National Gallery’s vast new Van Gogh exhibition, visitors will be able to see a painting of 1889 whose title, Undergrowth, speaks not of sunflowers, but of untrammelled weeds – and by extension, perhaps, of the dense scrub of the unconscious. Born of his fascination with the raggedy gard