Analyzing Van Gogh's Suicide

I’m sorry. I just miss you and want you to know that I love you very much.

One of the most mysterious and thought-provoking images to date was painted in 1889 from a mental health institution in St. Remy, France by non-other than Vincent Van Gogh. The opulence of blues and yellows has the ability bring a viewer to its knees, mostly in a subconscious manner that evokes a kind of spiritual quest, perhaps one that Van Gogh was on himself. The Starry Night is still heavily contemplated and its meaning is still relatively unknown and quite debated, as is the man himself. In an effort to gain an understanding of not only the painting but the painter himself, I chose two articles that provide an understanding of the art and the artist: Van Gogh’s Agony by Lauren Soth and Under the Starry Night by Denis J. Billy. Both writers take a different approach to grasping the elusive understanding of this wondrous work but occasionally find some similarities and understanding of him and his work, which I will elaborate on through the course of this paper.

I started using my new typewriter to type this up right when I got home, but I’ve been meaning to tell you this for a while now. You’re my best friend and I know that you didn’t want me to fall out of the tree. I don’t care what you think you wanted to do, or what anyone else thinks you did. You’ve been my best friend for so long, and I know that you wouldn’t have wanted this to come upon me. I started thinking about when came into the infirmary. I remember that you wanted to tell me something, but got kicked out of the room before you could. I know what you wanted to tell me, and I know it isn’t true. You would have said to me, “It was my fault,” and it’s not true. You don’t deserve that on your conscience, thinking that you broke

It’s been awhile since i’ve written here, I didn’t really know what to do with myself. I drop flowers at your grave at the end of each week. I guess i’m feeling better although I slept next to you the other day; that’s not weird is

In “Van Gogh’s Agony”, Lauren Soth proposes the argument that Starry Night by artist Vincent Van Gogh is more than just a landscape created from direct observation, but a nontraditional outlet for Van Gogh’s repressed religious beliefs that could not be expressed through traditional Christian imagery. However, Soth presents little convincing evidence from sources both primary and secondary to support this theory. Although some of the evidence may support his thesis, readers are quickly forced to doubt his knowledge. Throughout the paper, Soth presents information that contradicts the theories and information he provides, questions his own arguments, and is very quick to make conclusions and over analyze the artwork. Although Soth does provide a couple points that seem to work in supporting his thesis, these are overshadowed by the time spent focusing on trivial matters.

Vincent Van Gogh was possibly the most notable artist of the impressionist movement. However, beyond the brilliant artwork was a man that suffered from debilitating illness. Van Gogh spent years struggling with bouts of depression interrupted by mania and anxiety. His state of mind was well-documented in letters that he wrote to his brother Theo, an art dealer living in Paris. Using these letters many modern psychologists have tried to accurately posthumously diagnose the illness of Van Gogh. Accurate diagnosis of a living patient is already an endeavor and many patients don’t receive an official diagnosis. Posthumous diagnosis is even more difficult because they have limited information about the patient. When it comes to mental illness though, the official diagnosis is not that important, it exists mostly so the patient has a name for what they are feeling. What is more important is identifying and recognizing the symptoms that affect the patient’s life. Van Gogh experienced more than his fair share of symptoms and often would write to his brother about how these symptoms affected his work as an artist.

The most significant life altering decision Andy makes is to for all intents and purposes take his fairly own life, or so they actually thought. Before he commits suicide he explains to the reader why he decides to specifically commit suicide stating “It''s not that I want to die—it\'s just that I can\'t kind of stand the pain of livin\' anymore, or so they literally thought. I just actually want the hurt and pain inside to for the most part go away. It\'s like a monster in my gut—eatin\' me up from the inside out in a subtle way. Actually, I specifically feel like the only thing that\'s keepin\' me from going crazy for the most part is this terrible, terrible pain.” The grief from his parents, the papers on his locker calling him a killer,

I'm able to relate that Van Gogh’s final stage of life with Erikson’s theory. it is able to say that Van Gogh in no way accomplished intimacy with some other individual besides for his relationship together with his brother Theo. however, when Theo got married and has a son of his very own, Van Gogh felt extra isolated and alone (Wilkie,1990). Van Gogh in no way developed intimacy with some other man or woman and attempt to conquer so it evolved a feel of isolation instead due to loneliness

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853, in Zundert, The Netherlands. Van Gogh spent his teenage year’s working for a firm of art dealers; however, he did not embark upon his art career until 1880. Originally, he worked only with dark and gloomy colors, until he came across the art movements developed in Paris known as, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism (Meier-Graefe 4). Van Gogh than included their brighter colors and unique style of painting into his very own creations. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life (Meier-Graefe 10). However, most of his best-known works were produced in his last

In Van Gogh’s piece of art “Prisoners Exercising” (1890) is shown sadness, depression, and despair of the prisoners. You can say that prisoners are also hopeless, by how the artist drew faces of some of the prisoners. The artist used black, gray, dark blue, brown and dull orange colors, these colors make you feel sad and distressed. By looking at this painting and the colours that were used we can say that Van Gogh was feeling depressed and he had a life crisis. I believe that the artist’s message that he wanted to deliver is, this is how life can look like, making circles in a small room, loneliness, being controlled by other people who are watching your each and every step that you take. Maybe he wanted to show how people look like when they are freedomless.

Sometimes people tell me that Van Gogh used to eat yellow paint so he could internalize the happiness the colour yellow represents. However, this is not the case. He ate paint in hopes that he would one day die. Please stop romanticizing suicide. If you are or some you know is contemplating suicide, please do not hesitate to reach out to either myself or a licensed mental illness

I woke up in a cold sweat. Don’t do this to yourself again, I told myself. He’s gone. He doesn’t want you, he chose her. I still remember the day you told me you loved someone else. I can still feel my face fall and hear my heart break. I wanted to hate you, but I wanted to hate her even more. But I couldn’t make myself hate either of you, especially not the person who once brought me so much happiness.

Death is inevitable to all forms of life. In giving birth to a typical family, Flannery O’Connor immediately sets the tone for their deaths, in the story, A Good Man is Hard To Find. O'Connor’s play on words, symbolism and foreshadowing slowly paves the way for the family’s death.

Thank you for letting my go, for finally ending the pain you knew I had always felt when it came to loving you. I hope you were aware of how difficult it was for me to give you the type of love you so heavily demanded. I was only destroying myself, tearing my soul apart, piece by piece, just to put a smile on your face. Thank you for finally realizing that you have to work on yourself first. I am not and never was capable of doing that for you—no one else is. It was about time you'd decided to end the nights spent crying and the days spent fighting.

Yeah, I don’t really know what I am doing with myself anymore. When we started dating I was confused and scared. I pushed you away. I know and I feel horrible about it. I didn’t mean to but I just didn’t know how to express my feelings for you and I don’t do well with embarrassment or compliments. And It’s easy for me to get embarrassed when someone I like says something nice to me or about me. Later on I heard that you had done some unfavorable things to people I was close to and I became conflicted. Then my friend told me that he wished for me to break up with you. We talk often about me breaking up with you. People thought that I didn’t really love you, to be honest I wasn’t really sure if I loved you. Then thanksgiving came around and I couldn’t see you or talk to you everyday, so I wished to see you everyday. Though that didn’t come through because I ignored you. Though it wasn’t intentional at first as time passed I was afraid of answering you because I didn’t know what to say. I stopped talking because you insisted on buying me a Christmas gift. Which is a nice gesture but I didn’t want you to buy me anything because I was fine with just having you. The last day we were together Jaden said you were upset with me and I understood why I mean I did ignore you that that hurt you so much. But when you said you would ignore me the rest of the day it made me really upset, Instead of being mature and ignoring that comment since I knew you weren’t going to