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Van Gogh himself thought that he might have epilepsy [29] and his doctor Dr. Félix Rey at the Old Hospital in Arles made the same general diagnosis, [30] as did Dr. Peyron at St Rémy. [31] A diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy was originally put forward in 1928 by Leroy and Doiteau [ 32 ] and has received much support. [ 33 ]
The most comprehensive primary source on Van Gogh is his correspondence with his younger brother, Theo.Their lifelong friendship, and most of what is known of Vincent's thoughts and theories of art, are recorded in the hundreds of letters they exchanged from 1872 until 1890. [8]
Van Gogh, who struggled with poverty and mental illness for most of his life, is regarded as a famous example of the tortured artist. A tortured artist is a stock character and stereotype who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art , other people, or the world in general.
Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous painters in history. His death, from alleged suicide, has been brought into question as potentially being an accidental homicide. Pulitzer-prize winning ...
Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh is widely theorised to have had bipolar disorder. Other notable creative people with bipolar disorder include Carrie Fisher , Demi Lovato , Kanye West , Stephen Fry (who has cyclothymia , a milder and more chronic form of bipolar disorder), [ 35 ] Mariah Carey , Jaco Pastorius , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Jean-Claude ...
Jan Hulsker, Vincent and Theo van Gogh: A Dual Biography, Fuller Publications, 1990, ISBN 0-940537-05-2. Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith: Van Gogh: The Life, Random House, 2011, 976 pages. ISBN 978-0-375-50748-9; Ronald Pickvance: Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers (exhibition catalog Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York: Abrams, 1986.
An immersive art installation featuring hundreds of artworks by post-Impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh is coming to New Mexico in March for a two month stay.
At least four contemporary novelists have focused on the women Van Gogh knew and painted in his final days at Auvers-sur-Oise. Alyson Richman in The Last Van Gogh (2006) has Marguerite Gachet, daughter of the doctor, recount her love affair with the artist in his last three months. Three others use the fictional diary form.