A diffident look 🖼️ During July 1889, Vincent suffered a severe psychotic episode – and this portrait is the only one that he painted during a psychosis.
Van Gogh’s expression is lifeless and depressed, emphasized by the brown-green paint of the work. Van Gogh painted himself as a mentally ill person, characterized by his diffident, sideways glance, which is often seen in people suffering from depression or a psychosis.
Knowing the state Vincent was in when he painted this self-portrait, does it change the experience you have when looking at it?
‘Self-Portrait’, 1889. In the collection of Nasjonalmuseet
Starry Starry Night, by Don Mc Lean
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I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse.
As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my
desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven.
I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are
denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child.
I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power..
I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination..
Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative".
It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..
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