The painting was created in a February, while he had been very overworked and ill, maybe because of his excessive smoking. It was a self-portrait, depicted himself as a dead man. He felt like he was dead while in his state of sickness.
The painting was created in a city called Antwerp, where he moved to in November of 1885. He had rented a small room where he devoted his time to paint more. With little money that he had received from his brother, he spent it on painting materials instead of food. Becoming more and more sick from lack of nutrition (his staple foods being bread, coffee and tobacco). In a letter he had written to his brother before he began his painting, he told him that he'd only had six hot meals since the previous May.
Comparing and Contrasting: A Starry Night
In May of 1889, Van Gogh moved, once again, out of Arles, France and into Saint-Rémy, where he checked in to a mental hospital, which formerly had been a monastery.
I'm obviously not finished yet, but I will do this and my powerpoint this weekend.
Stay tuned for more about the original painting...
Great work! Are you going to use another impressionist artist for your second comparison contrast piece?
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