Vincent Van Gogh: A Depressive Life of an Artist

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and frustration are visibly rendered through colors, tone, and stroke; Van Gogh vividly tells his personality, life, and tragic consciousness from the first piece of self-portrait to the last piece, showing that his depression grows chronologically through his whole life.
People argue that Impressionist painting only includes movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles, which is not enough for Van Gogh, as an Impressionist, to express his feeling through painting. According to Richard Kendall's VAN GOGH's Van Goghs, Van Gogh once declared to a journalist: "I paint what I see, I paint what I remember and paint what I feel" (67). Impressionists have the same desire, which is to paint what they feel-what they see with their inner eye-this is a key to their innovative technique. People regard Van Gogh as an Impressionist; in fact, he considers it only a first step of stepping into the field of expressionism at the time in ...

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Eugenie Loyer, is rejected. In a letter to a friend, a year after the rejection, Van Gogh recalls: "it remains a wound which carry with me; it lies deep and cannot be healed. After years it will be the same as the first day" (vxiii), which shows that the rejection leads him to a long period of despair and depression.
Van Gogh depicts himself as a depressed man, a decadent. In his altogether thirty-seven self-portraits, most of them are drawing his faces self three-quarter to the audiences. Each of the self-portraits displays the same intensity in the eyes, focusing intently outward, with some degree of unspoken emotion. Van Gogh usually leaves his beard scruffy; his lips ...

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