Vincent van Gogh: Breakthrough (1887)

By Lida Prypchan
The year 1887 seems to have been a banner year for Vincent van Gogh. That spring, after moving from his brother, Theo’s, apartment to his own room in Asnieres, Paris, Vincent became acquainted with French neo-impressionist painter, Paul Victor Jules Signac. Signac developed the pointillist style of...

Vincent van Gogh: Recognition

By Lida Prypchan
Despite being housed in a mental hospital for a year, Vincent appears to have never lost his ability and desire to produce art. Even during his time at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, he turned out many of his most famous works. However, this period was not without its turmoil. It...

Vincent van Gogh: The Hold of Mental Illness

By Lida Prypchan
Although it appears that the two months between the arrival of Paul Gauguin at Arles and his time with Vincent van Gogh were largely two of the happiest months of van Gogh’s life, by December 23, 1888, it had ended in disaster. Whether precipitated by an argument with Gauguin, his feelings of inadequacy...

Freud and Art

By Lida Prypchan
The genesis and content of a number of disciplines or activities outside the scope of medicine has repeatedly been psychoanalyzed. In this regard, the attention of psychoanalysts has addressed the history of religions, prehistory, mythology, and especially, literature and art. In this task, what psychoanalysts...