How the hell did he pull it off?
>>7883795He probably used a knife, as I heard he wanted to give it to his lover. Probably still hurt like hell though, but mentally ill people can do some crazy feats when the sperg out. He could probably only hear half as well after.
>>7883800>his loverhe gave it to a random prostitute
>>7883814What a passionate guy.
>>7883800No, I meant starting at 27 then proceeding to become /god/ tier
>>7883825He started it at that age? It took him that long? You'd think it'd start to get infected and hurt like mad.I would say he was particularly talented at tearing of ears, given that it took him so long, and he only did it once.
>>7883833Wouldn't that be the opposite of talent? I think a talented ear-tearer would be able to rip it off from the getgo.He was nearly a perma-/ear/.
>>7883825it was a different time back then and there weren't the kind of distractions we have today. he totally immersed himself into his craft and he got results. id imagine if you spent 6+ hours a day everyday for 10 years working on art you would become great too but it requires a buddhist monk tier discipline to actually achieve that type of workflow and sadly the vast majority of artists aren't that committed or capable of sacrificing that much of their free time to draw pictures. van gogh lived in poverty and if it weren't for his brother's allowance he would never of had the time to make it as far as he did
>>7883795I’ve read a lot about Van Gogh, with particular interest into his private letters. My opinion is that his achievement was mostly based on financial sponsorship from Theo, plus incredible mental instability that would push him into prolonged frenzies of painting. He was incredibly lonely and craved companionship, and used the painting as a way to soothe himself. He said that the colors spoke to him, good understanding of color theory was god tier because he would obsess about it constantly, even pausing his painting at times so he could write about the colors before going back to it. Anyway there’s a lot more but I’d recommend you just read his letters. I really feel like I understand him though. Through and through, when I first read his letters I couldn’t stop saying “he’s me”. From the mental instability to the manic rushes and the perpetual loneliness. Of all the greats he’s the only one I’ve ever seen as a real person. Everyone else is much more like a myth to me
>>7884635I read some of his letters. They were very interesting and personal. I really think that he just loved art. Even if his reasons for it weren't the healthiest.
>>7884660You’re right. I should have led with that. He really did love it. And I think maybe to reach that high, you can’t be thinking in terms of being healthy or mentally well. To fly high enough to reach the sun requires sacrifice
>>7883825He actually went outside and sketched from lifeAlso Bargue
>>7884620You obviously didn't read about his life.
>>7883795EXTREME mental illness and lots of money
>>7884802You are retarded. He lived in poverty barely scraping by on the patronage of his brother Theo for years.
>>7884830https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincent-van-gogh-faq/was-van-gogh-poorhe wasn't poor, he was a retard with moneyvermeer also bankrupted himself buying lapis lazuli
>>7883795He copied millet a lot especially at the start. Not even hiding it.
>>7884839>There’s another reason why Vincent was often hard up. Painting supplies are expensive and he usually used up most of his money buying what he needed, leaving little left for food and drink.i guess thats part of it as well, but wasnt he also buying whores a lot? i remember the one drawing i like a lot of that dilapidated whore.
>>7884845protip: whenever you see an artist with a "muse", it's a whore, regular women just weren't allowed to associate themselves with artists like thatthe guy caravaggio killed was a pimp for the lady in his paintings (some accounts say accidentally while castrating him)
>>7884845also, it's not really that supplies were expensive so much that van gogh went through them at retarded rates due to how he paintedhe shat put like 100 paintings per year whereas renoir, one of the most prolific painters in history, would paint like 70 in the same time span
>>788379527 was the age he was when he was commissioned to produce paintings for a gallery (a commission he failed on and had his work rejected btw). Not the age he was when he started drawing. His first industry job was actually selling art at a gallery. A position he landed at 16 by being a nepobaby (aka having his well connected uncle land him a job there). Presumably because he showed an interest in art already. A job he proceeded to fuck up by being an autistic sperg to the customers. He also tried to fuck the landlord's daughter and then ran away to join the church. Later he came back to painting and continued his art sperging and bad attempts at picking up women (including another landlady's daughter at some point, or maybe the landlady herself if I remember correctly?).Everyone likes to treat Van Gogh like some kind socially betrayed outsider with a wounded artistic soul, but he actually had a lot of help from friends and family with his work and had a lot of people around him continuing to support him even after he went off the rails. Despite being an unsuccessful painter he was able to live as an artist. He was just kind of a fucking retard in life. >In July 1869, Van Gogh's uncle, “Cent” Van Gogh, helped him obtain a position with the art dealer Goupil & Cie in The Hague. After his training, in June 1873, Goupil transferred him to London, where he lodged at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton,[1] and worked at Messrs. Goupil & Co., 17 Southampton Street.[2] This was a happy time for him; he was successful at work and was, at 20, earning more than his father. He fell in love with his landlady's daughter, Eugénie Loyer, who rejected him. He was increasingly isolated and fervent about religion. His father and uncle sent him to Paris to work in a dealership. However, he became resentful at how art was treated as a commodity, a fact apparent to customers. On 1 April 1876, his employment was terminated.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_works_of_Vincent_van_Gogh
>>7885485So he was a weird loser that had plenty of support from his family, was rejected by women, and failed financially anyway?He’s me
>>7885599can i have your ear when you make it big, anon?
>>7885604>when you make it bigWell I hope you don't need that ear anytime soon, yuck yuck yuck.
>>7885485>he became resentful at how art was treated as a commoditybased
>>7884848lol lmao
