Van Gogh, Between Seizures and Death.

Van Gogh, Between Seizures and Death.


Vincent Van Gogh.


A great artist who painted the twinkling stars of Arles, sunflowers brighter than the sun, cypress trees burning with green flames, and the sky that shook like the sea.


 

He burned his hand in front of her parents asking for permission to meet the woman he loved, cut off his left ear after a conflict with Gauguin, a painter he was living with, admitted to a psychiatric hospital for multiple seizures, and later committed suicide by shooting himself in the stomach.


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The madness of life flashing next to the genius of painting, scary seizures wriggling under a passionate touch. There are many people who want to draw like Van Gogh, but how many people really want to live like Van Gogh?


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It is not known whether Van Gogh committed suicide or whether he was killed in a gun accident.


Even if it was a gun accident, if it were Van Gogh's nature, he would have gladly accepted it as suicide, that is, as his own destiny.


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When someone is unable to lead a so-called normal life in society, it should be possible to reflect through Van Gogh that his body or his mind should not directly lead to 'infirmity leading to death'.


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Just as common sense and conventional wisdom cannot be indicators of health, madness itself cannot be equated with disease or death.


Nietzsche said that madness and sickness are different, and that the opposite of 'madness' is not health but a 'tamed brain'. Just because you feel pain cannot be said to be the result of 'weakness'.


In Nietzsche's terms, illness is often due to excessive delicacy, and sometimes excessive health to push boundaries.


As such, there is a huge gap between Van Gogh's seizures and death.


As an interpretive fact rather than a historical fact, Van Gogh's death comes as a clear sign. There is no death in the minority, whether called madness or whatever. It is said that the suffering of minorities comes from their powerful rebellion rather than their physical and mental infirmities, and even when they have to end their lives with their own hands, it is only a surrender and defeat to external forces. Stories like this can often be the 'murder threat' of a minority's 'seizure'.

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