This day in history: Vincent van Gogh shot himself on this day in 1890. This man was an over-rated nutjob alcoholic who previously cut off his own ear. His most famous piece was painted inside an insane asylum. Van Gogh was of course not the only crazy artist. His buddy, the suicidal Paul Gaugin suffered from severe bouts of depression, as did Michelangelo, Mark Rothko, and Nicolas de Staël. Richard Dadd believed his father was the devil and that he was taken hostage by the ancient Egyptian god Osiris. Georgia O’Keefe suffered a nervous breakdown, as did Edvard Munch.
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