Vincent Van Gogh And The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh, the painter of such works as Irises, Wheat Field with Cypresses, and The Starry Night is one of the most influential and famous artists of all time. However, he suffered greatly with mental illness, including bipolar disorder, depression, and alcoholism. Throughout his life enigmatic life, van Gogh suffered with bipolar disorder. He was known to have “horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.…and at times have attacks of melancholy and of atrocious remorse” (Blumer). Perhaps his most famous incident occurred during a manic episode, in which, after an argument with a colleague, van Gogh “cut off part of his left earlobe, which he then