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Imperator Fyron said:
So are you saying that the Dutch are insane alcoholics that die young?

Umm, hang on now. No offense, but I don't think Van Gogh should be described as an insane alcoholic http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

Troubled, yes. He did kill himself, so there's no disputing that he had some problems upstairs. On the other hand, he was an artist. If you look carefully, a majority of truly great artists were/are a little bit psychologically off center. I have no real personal insight here, because I am an engineer through and through; there is little or no poetry in my soul.

But I don't have to personally understand it in order to recognise the fact that artists, or great artists at any rate, tend to be a bit wacky.

And as far as an alcoholic...do you have any documentary evidence of that? I'm not saying it isn't true, just that I'd never heard it before http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Oh, and Pierre Auguste Renoir, (another Impressionist, and a rough contemporary of Van Gogh), was a notable exception to my point above. The man was apparently just obnoxiously normal, happy, and well-adjusted. His wife appears in many of his best paintings, for land's sake!

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Possum said:
Umm, hang on now. No offense, but I don't think Van Gogh should be described as an insane alcoholic http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

Troubled, yes. He did kill himself, so there's no disputing that he had some problems upstairs. On the other hand, he was an artist. If you look carefully, a majority of truly great artists were/are a little bit psychologically off center. I have no real personal insight here, because I am an engineer through and through; there is little or no poetry in my soul.

But I don't have to personally understand it in order to recognise the fact that artists, or great artists at any rate, tend to be a bit wacky.

And as far as an alcoholic...do you have any documentary evidence of that? I'm not saying it isn't true, just that I'd never heard it before http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Oh, and Pierre Auguste Renoir, (another Impressionist, and a rough contemporary of Van Gogh), was a notable exception to my point above. The man was apparently just obnoxiously normal, happy, and well-adjusted. His wife appears in many of his best paintings, for land's sake!

Well said! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif It's true that most Artists are slightly "wacky". Hell, some of the Artists I've studied in my work are just weird, if not "psychologically off-center" then slightly quirky. One you will all probably know was Salvidor Dali, strange strange man http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Imperator Fyron said:
So are you saying that the Dutch are insane alcoholics that die young?

Umm, hang on now. No offense, but I don't think Van Gogh should be described as an insane alcoholic http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

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Oh, and Pierre Auguste Renoir, (another Impressionist, and a rough contemporary of Van Gogh), was a notable exception to my point above. The man was apparently just obnoxiously normal, happy, and well-adjusted. His wife appears in many of his best paintings, for land's sake!

Not to kick dead lion, but maybe he was extremly succesful in his oddities concealment.