Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter who was known for his interesting use of colour to express emotions and feelings into his paintings. It was estimated that over his thirty-seven years of life he produced over 2000 pieces of art. He was born on the 30 March 1853 in the Netherlands. After his family was struggling financially, he decided to take his first job at the age of 16 where he began working in his uncle's art firm. His job at the art firm took him to places like London and Paris but he soon grew tired of his job at the art firm and was dismissed from his job in 1876. He soon became extremely interested in Christianity and became a preacher in Belgium for the mining community in the south. Four years later, Van Gogh had eventually decided to become an artist where he taught himself how to paint and draw whilst receiving money from his brother Theo to keep him afloat. In 1886, Van Gogh had moved in with his brother Theo to Paris where he had met many artists which can include Gauguin and Pissarro of which he became good friends with them. His style significantly changed from impressionism to become a lot brighter and lighter where he started to paint a substantial number of self-portraits. Two years later he moved to Southern France where he painted one of his most famous series to date; Sunflowers. During this time had had invited Gauguin to unite with him but soon after they began to argue where one nigh Van Gogh pulled out a razor and threatened Gauguin with it. He then became extremely remorseful of which he reacted with this by cutting off his own ear. This was one of the first signs of his mental health problems that were soon to affect Van Gogh for many more years to come. He began to spend time in hospital for his psychiatric illnesses where he had periods of depression, paranoia and inactivity. His time in hospital had influenced his own artistic voice leaving his art to become a lot brighter with more strong colours which reflected the countryside around him. Sadly in 1890, he suffered another period of depression and shot himself in the chest, of which he was rushed to hospital and sadly passed away two days later. Louis Wain Another painter which is thought to have had some mental illness was Louis Wain. Louis Wain was born in England in the August of 1860. Wain's mother was a carpet and embroidery designer, and his father was a traveller for a firm to do with textiles. Louis Wain started his career drawing animals and countryside's of which he had his own work then published in multiple journals that were made in the time. In 1884, one of Wains drawings of a cat was sold to The Illustrated London News. At this time, the Louis Wain Cat was popular which appeared in many prints, books post cards and many other materials. His cats are shown doing the same things that humans do for example, riding bicycles, playing cricket and engaging in school. Throughout all his fame, Wain was never financially wealthy where during the way, he became poor. Despite being known as been quite out there, he had developed signs of mental illness. He was a gentle man while at this time he became suspicious, angry and abusive. Later on in 1924, he was diagnosed as insane and was then committed to Surrey County Asylum. This was where he was discovered the following year and a campaign was made to allow him to be transferred to Bethlem Hospital, the better hospital at the time. Five years later Wain was transferred to Napsbury Hospital where he continued drawing until his life ended. He sadly suffered a stroke in November 1936 where he became bedridden in 1939 and was unable to speak. He then passed away on 4th July 1939 when he was 78 years old. He was then buried alongside his sisters Caroline and Josephine and his father.
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