Was Vincent Van Gogh's only inspiration his diseased, yet brilliant mind? Or did other artists influence his

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work?

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Answer 1

He was enormously influenced by Jean-Francais Millet. Van Gogh started doing studies of Millet's work as early as 1880 and, while he was at Saint-Remy, he did 21 copies of Millet's works during a 3 month spell from 1889 to 1890.

Anton Mauve was also an early influence. He was married to van Gogh's cousin.

Possibly the greatest influence on van Gogh was Paul Gauguin.

Answer 2

Dont be fooled, van gogh got his early inspiration from his brother who just happoened to work in an art gallery. Not that Vincent was outwardly interested in art but he was interested in the world around him. it is assumed that he had some kind of temporal lobe epilepsy and he had days where he was simply imobilized from headaches. I have an opinion that states that vincent was terribly imporessed by the effects of wind and how it could move thingsd, even in the night sky, of course thats just my own opinion. but inspiration by other artists is a certainty as he did visit his brother on occasion and admired the artwirks in the gallery where his briother worked....I cant say as I know who he was inspired by but I'm sure any artist is insoired by other artists they see, even myself, alot of other artists inspire me but now I'm a bit too old to be changing my style just because I'm in a new state and so I sopend my time painting in Oregon and shipping all my stuff back to Texas....but I'm inspired by other artists indeed. If you take into account Vincent van gogh's early drug and alcohol problem, his mental illness "assumed or real" and then the toll his drinking of absynthe took on him, it;'s a wonder he could paint at all......by the way, there was a point in his life where he was committed for s short period so doctors could try a new remedy on him called "cabamezapine",,,,,,,,,it is a drug still in use today in many antidepressants. the fact that he cut off his ear as a tribute to the prositute he believed he loved may have been a side effect of that drug and the absynthe.

Answer 3

I am so glad to see a question of relevence to an area which I studied. In college English I did a few papers on Vincent Van Gogh, his works of art, and the mentality of external and internal influences that may have driven him to produce odd yet brilliant masterpieces. His background is of utmost research and phenomenon. I believe he was slightly epileptic which caused his psychological disturbances. Furthermore, he is believed to have been Schizophrenic. During his latter end, his paintings illustrated the severity of his psychological state, inadvertantely they were some of the greatest. I speculate, due to the complexity of his mental illness that Van Gogh worked alone and in isolation - typical of Schizophrenics. Today, his paintings sell for millions, a rare glimpse into the mind of a man who only had pennies to the dollar.

Answer 4

Although me may have suffered form some psychological problems I don't think that had much to do with the look of his artwork. The two years Van Gogh spent in Paris, exposed to the recent trends of the French avant-garde, were crucial to his artistic development. Van Gogh's discovery of impressionism and postimpressionism, and the friendships he formed with artists such as Gauguin and Signac, led to a dramatic change in his palette and brushwork. Interested in color theories, Van Gogh began experimenting with the use of bright, pure colors to heighten the expressiveness of his work. By 1887 he had also adopted the broken brush strokes of the impressionists in several views of Paris and the hill of Montmartre, where he lived. He learned to juxtapose complementary hues -- yellow and purple, blue and orange, green and red -- throughout his paintings, applying the principle that a color looks more intense when placed next to its complementary. In addition, he made the colors vibrate by combining the loose, spontaneous brush strokes of the impressionists with the more regular hatchings and dots of Seurat's pointillism.

Another major source of inspiration that Van Gogh explored in Paris, where japonism was then fashionable, was Japanese woodblock prints. He admired their bold designs, intense hues, and flat areas of unmodulated color. In 1887, he made paintings directly copied from Japanese prints, accentuating their color contrasts. The Japanese influence would remain strong throughout Van Gogh's work, finding its way in his use of daring perspectives and in the flat decorative patterns he often added to the background of his later portraits.

Answer 5

Great question. I wish I knew the answer. All I can say for sure that a lot of geniuses, whether brilliant minds in science, (Galileo) math, etc or creative such as artists, musicians, authors (Poe comes to mind) were a little "different". They seem to think on a different plane from the rest of us. That doesn't make them wrong. They may be more evolved than the rest of us which makes their existence more difficult for them.

Answer 6

i think his mind lead him to other artist.