(Milner, 1991)This Japanese inspiration is clearly recognized in The Night Café, as many of the figures in the middle ground are delineated in dark lines. Although the piece has perspective, there is a flat quality to the entire painting. Gauguin also preached painting from both dream and memory. (Milner, 1991) Circumstance and personality are two elements that intertwine and vastly affect the mind of a master. Freudian theories claim that deep within the subconscious exists every bad memory that one has suppressed for a lifetime. Freud discovered that expressing your feelings allowed for all of these memories to surface and become a part of the individual's underlying personality. Artists constantly have to stay in touch with their emotions so that their work can be infused with feeling. (Cash, 2002)Vincent would go through incredible surges of intense creativity and emotion followed by a destructive act. His high emotional levels whilst painting caused surges in his level of anger upon remembering all of the ills that have befallen him. Vincent, plagued with mental anguish in his memories, and influenced by alcohol consumption would paint in an erratic fashion that illuminated the emotion of the scene he was referencing. The Starry Night, completed during the time of his institutionalization is a classic example of his emotions being passed through the brush and onto the canvas. It is an image shrouded in mystery and anxiety with nothing but an ominous moon to observe the landscape.(Shoham, 2002) Many scholars believe it to be a portrait of the violent mistral winds that plagued the French countryside as a reflection to the anguish in his soul. (Satterfeild, 2000).
"The Starry Night at St. Remy undulates in a demonic dance, whirling within a devastating tornado. Still, working on the verge of madness enabled Vincent to reach new heights of revelatory insight, and deeper internal anxieties and pain were sublimated into unique art- (Shoham, 2002).
Van Gogh was the son of Theodorus van Gogh, a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. ... He continued to suffer mentally and emotionally. ... He continued to battle with his mental illness and created more paintings. ... Van Gogh's varying mental stability, depression, and nomadic lifestyle influenced his work. ... Van Gogh's work was not valued in his lifetime. ...
Who was the man called Vincent Van Gogh? Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 to Theodorus Van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. ... Gauguin loved to mock Van Gogh. Van Gogh seen this as a threat to his work, and his hidden illness erupted in a terrible crisis. ... The visit distressed Van Gogh even more. ...
Vincent van Gogh born near Brabant in 1853 and Pablo Picasso born in Spain in 1881 were to be two of the most influential artists that have ever existed. ... Agostina Segatori sitting in Cafe du Tambourin, is one of Van Gogh's works painted in 1887 in Paris, and Les Demoiselles d"Avignon painted by Picasso are two paintings that although similar are different in that Van Gogh's has more realism and Picassos's is cubist in style. Van Gogh tries to change the image of women in those days by painting them smoking and drinking beer. ... Van Gogh his mental illness and his inf...
Van Gogh suffered from a severe mental illness that cut his life and his artistic prime violently short. ... This painting, Houses at Auvers, was one of van Gogh's last. ... Here, Van Gogh depicted the street not far from Dr. ... Vincent Van Gogh seemed to live a tragic life. Throughout most of his life he suffered from a mental illness and was mainly supported economically by his family and friends. ...
One important way that creativity can positively affect lives is by helping treat mental illness in art therapy, by affecting the brain (neuroscience) in creative process and how that would be beneficial to patients having mental disorder, by providing patients an emotional outlet and by promoting self-esteem thus aid patients going back to society. ... Mercola's article Mental Health Disorders Now Leading Cause of Non-Fatal Illness Worldwide, he indicated '' according to a recent study published in The Lancet, mental disorders and substance abuse combined were the leading c...
The following examples will show some of the problems that four different artists have suffered in the past century.Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter who lived from March 30, 1853 to July 29, 1890. ... (Sweetman 294) Vincent van Gogh began having nervous attacks in 1888, and his doctor diagnosed him with having some sort of epilepsy. ... On July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh attempted suicide- but he didn't die. ... Vincent van Gogh died at 1:30 in the morning, July 29, 1890 (Sweetman 343). ... It gave her a strange mental illness, and she began to hear voices. ...
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter who lived from March 30, 1853 to July 29, 1890. ... (Sweetman 294) Vincent van Gogh began having nervous attacks in 1888, and his doctor diagnosed him with having some sort of epilepsy. ... On July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh attempted suicide- but he didn't die. ... Vincent van Gogh died at 1:30 in the morning, July 29, 1890 (Sweetman 343). ... It gave her a strange mental illness, and she began to hear voices. ...
People with bi-polar disorder actually experience four types of mental states which are depression, hypomania, mania and mixed-state. ... The illness is genetic. ... Vincent Van Gogh, who produced all of his artistic works in a 10 year period, was hospitalized numerous times for the illness and eventually shot himself to death at the age of 37. During one of his manic episodes, Van Gogh cut off his ear. ... Ludwig concluded that "members of the artistic professions or creative arts as a whole suffer from more types of mental difficulties and do so over longer periods of their lives than member...
