Van Gogh’s Haunted Mind: Alcohol, Absinthe, and the Madness That Consumed Him The colors swirled and pulsed before his eyes: electric blues, starburst yellows, deep, bottomless blacks. The world did ...
On May 8, 1889, painter Vincent van Gogh checked himself into a psychiatric hospital near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, during a major mental health crisis. The hospital director, Théophile Peyron, ...