Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia

After years of anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died aged 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The extent to which his mental health affected his painting has been widely debated by art historians. Despite a widespread tendency to romanticize his ill health, modern critics see an artist deeply frustrated by the inactivity and incoherence wrought through illness. His late paintings show an artist at the height of his abilities, completely in control, and according to art critic Robert Hughes, “longing for concision and grace”

I saw Vincent Van Gogh’s doppleganger on the G train in Brooklyn. (It was on the Today Show, NBC). Made me think of him so I googled and couldn’t help but think of artists I know who suffer. Some not so silently.

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