Resource Tag: OCCUPATIONS. PAINTERS

This article discusses possible contributing factors for Van Gogh’s suicide. The author postulates that the artist suffered from glaucoma & the realization of his impending blindness motivated his suicidal act. This disease is described & applied to aspects of Van Gogh’s art, such as the halo effect in his paintings & his relocation to a […]

This report is part of a continuing investigation in which an evolution was noted in the way Western artists portrayed the subject of suicide in visual works of art. The trend was from heroic to stigmatized, to irrational and depressed with more recent examples stressing the ambivalent and call for help qualities. During the same […]