This painting was done when Vincent was ill. He severed his own ear lobe when he attempted to lash out at Gauguin with it. Gauguin was a french impressionist painter who studied the tihitan people and their way of life. Vincent was diagnosed with epilepsy and uncontrolible, erational behavior. He was comitted to an insane asylum. Afterwards he was sent home. His doctor Mr. Gachet cared for him for two months and then found him dead from a gunshot wound that Vincent did to himself. The paint on this painting, “The Mulberry Tree”, was so thick and swirly. He used alot of paint and just squeezed it on heavy. it was vey grooved and rigid. I liked the painting. It caught my interest.
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