Because he was most likely bi polar and since he was mentally sick he could have done it to express himself and his illness, in addition maybe he was not happy because no one liked his artwork and he wanted to improve his impressionist paintings.

Who are the people in the background of the scream ?

How long was his state of depression?

The sunflower painting

Source- Vincent Van Gough Biography (book) he painted his bedroom in the asylum to show that he was still capable of painting and to show how lonely, (and cramped) he was in his room. - Gian

Yes, his paintings based on his romance, friends and other personal things

He was pressured and told by his brother to do something wortwhile in his life, he was also inspired by Paul Gauguin.

The sunflowers were originally called 'tournesols' which means sunflowers in French. He didn't paint one painting of sunflowers he painted more than 8 different paintings. The sunflowers were suppose to be decoration for the yellow house (the house he and Gauguin were living in) but Gauguin had acquired 2 of the Paris versions of the Sunflowers. Furthermore majority of his paintings were meant to be for the room Guagain stayed in ( guest room).

He studied with and was inspired by Cormon and Pissaro, Monet and Gaugin. It also went with his state of mind.

Answer: He was one of his good friend that he met

A-In 1886 Van Gogh relocated to Paris and was influenced by Impressionis and gained exposure to artists such as Gauguin, Pissarro, Monet, and Bernard.

Most of his paintings wher done in France because of the miners, some of them where also made in south of france

His did effect his work because in the ayslum he had a mental ill and could not stop painting. He often had attacks. In starry night, which he painted in the ayslum, has swirling lines to represent his illness. The same kind of look can be seen in his other work.

He suffered from mental illnesses which could not be controlled. Rayann: he tried to attack Gaugin but ended up chopping off part of his ear lobe off

-It was only one ear and he didn't cut all of it off

He painted for 10 years.

He got inspiration from Paul Gargin, a fellow artist and friend of his. He later attacked Gaugin and accidentally chopped of part his own ear lobe-Toby

Van Gogh suffered from various types of: epilepsy, psychotic attacks and delusions.- Catalina

Van Gogh produced more than 2000 pieces of art (including his drawings). He produced around 900 paintings and around 1100 drawings and sketches.

A- 900 paintings

A-(mostly)Paul Gauguin

They met in Paris 1887

He got it from Paul Gauguin also the Impressionists also the miners he knew

From his bedroom window from asylum