Irate Wanderer

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Van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889

• Created a year before his death, after he had checked himself into St. Pauls Sanitarium in France; he had very high hopes to create an artist’s colony in the south of France where they could support each other, and share ideas/resources 
• His good friend, Paul Gauguin, came to visit him and tried to help him, but they ended up fighting and Gauguin left, leaving Vincent’s dream crushed and spirals into a depression. After Gauguin left, Vincent cut off part of his earlobe, walked it to a brothel, and presented it to a prostitute he wanted to help. Of course, he was rejected since he had no money.  
• This is a combination of the view from his window and the memories of his homeland; Dutch baroque landscapes usually featured the sky as 2/3rds of the composition, which Van Gogh seems to channel  
• There was a contemporary theory that when you die, your soul goes into star; he could be thinking about death.  
• In 1890, after being cared for by his doctor, he walked out into a field and shot himself. However, he shot incorrectly, and it took around three days for him to bleed to death.

rawbdz:

An extremely talented local artist here in Indianapolis named Lobyn Hamilton creates these pieces from broken vinyl records. Some stellar work you should check out here http://vinylrecordartist.com/