2006-09-12 23:50:50 · 8 answers · asked by sir_alfred69 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
I never heard about him quarreling with another artist. I have read and my professors have told me that Van Gogh cut his ear off because he was 'crazy'. That he heard voices and they were making him go nuts, and he didn't like it. So he cut off his ear to get them to stop talking to him.
2006-09-12 23:54:59 · answer #1 · answered by Jessica 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gauguin.
They where friends, but quarrelled fiercely about art. Van Gogh felt an increasing fear that Gauguin was going to desert him, and what he described as a situation of "excessive tension" reached a crisis point on December 23, 1888, when Van Gogh stalked Gauguin with a razor and then cut off the lower part of his own left ear, which he wrapped in newspaper and gave to a prostitute called Rachel in the local brothel, asking her to "keep this object carefully".Gauguin left Arles and did not speak to Van Gogh again. Van Gogh was hospitalised and in a critical state for a few days
2006-09-13 07:01:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anria A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul Cezanne
2006-09-13 06:57:50 · answer #3 · answered by Kate G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His jealous friend, Paul Gaugin.
2006-09-13 10:21:17 · answer #4 · answered by Steve C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What? Do you think this is a game show or something? "I'll take Weird Crap for Five Hundred Bucks Alex"
2006-09-13 10:11:31 · answer #5 · answered by Mark 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Manet?
2006-09-13 06:59:40 · answer #6 · answered by kitty fresh & hissin' crew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i thought he cut it off after thinking it doesn't look good on him...
2006-09-13 06:53:18 · answer #7 · answered by Inquirer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was Gaugin who was his friend
2006-09-13 06:59:12 · answer #8 · answered by that b puss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋