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In the paintings of Vincent van Gogh, intense color and passionate brush strokes are the key influential elements. His influence in the art world during his lifetime however, did not have a great impact; he is reported to have sold only one painting while he was alive!
From the Van Gogh Gallery web site:
Van Gogh’s finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line.
Van Gogh’s inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.
This great genius suffered from anxiety, depression and bouts of mental illness. He died at the young age of thirty-seven from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
What exactly drove poor Van Gogh to madness and eventual suicide is a matter of some speculation. In this rendition of his work The Bedroom, 1888, we can perhaps find some clues.
Perhaps it was paralysis by analysis?
