Wednesday, April 22, 2009

What.

=p Fact of the day: Apparently, people with bipolar disorder really like opposing colours, in particular, blue and yellow (in that combination). Vincent van Gogh, whom one art historian mentioned (I can't remember who) really really liked yellow, and incidentally, his most most cherished works, in particular, Starry Night is painted in a splendid combination of vivid blues and yellows. Vincent van Gogh as history tells us, was also known for being intermittently in and out of hospitals and suffered from said disorder. This is rather fascinating. Is his art a sympton of his illness, or did his illness allow him to paint with such vibrancy? Which also goes to show why artists with neither eyesight issues or mental illnesses resort to artificial chemicals to produce the same effect...

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