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It gets dark before din\u00adner now in my part of the world, a recipe for sea\u00adson\u00adal depres\u00adsion. Vin\u00adcent van Gogh wrote about such low feel\u00adings with deep insight. \u201cOne feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bot\u00adtom of a deep dark well, utter\u00adly help\u00adless.\u201d Yet, when he looked up at the night sky he saw not dark\u00adness but blaz\u00ading light: a full moon shines yel\u00adlow from\u00a0White House at Night\u00a0like the sun, and peeks like a gold coin from behind blue moun\u00adtains in\u00a0Land\u00adscape with Wheat Sheaves and Ris\u00ading Moon. The stars in\u00a0Star\u00adry Night Over the Rh\u00f4ne\u00a0appear like fire\u00adworks. We are all famil\u00adiar with the blaz\u00ading night sky of its sequel,\u00a0The Star\u00adry Night<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been sug\u00adgest\u00aded that Van Gogh saw halos of light because of lead poi\u00adson\u00ading from his paint, and that the Dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adis\u00a0Dr. Gachet<\/a>\u00a0pre\u00adscribed for his tem\u00adpo\u00adral lobe epilep\u00adsy caused him to \u201csee in yel\u00adlow,\u201d the\u00a0Van Gogh Gallery Blog<\/a>\u00a0writes, \u201cor see yel\u00adlow spots which could explain van Gogh\u2019s con\u00adsis\u00adtent use of the col\u00ador yel\u00adlow in his lat\u00ader works.\u201d<\/p>\n His most bril\u00adliant works date from this lat\u00ader peri\u00adod, dur\u00ading his time at the hos\u00adpi\u00adtal at Arles, where he paint\u00aded his famous bed\u00adroom. All of these paint\u00adings, and hun\u00addreds more, can be found in high-res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion scans at the new van Gogh resource, Van Gogh World\u00adwide<\/a>, \u201ca\u00a0con\u00adsor\u00adtium of muse\u00adums<\/a>,\u201d notes\u00a0Madeleine Muz\u00addakis at My Mod\u00adern Met, \u201cdoing their part to bring the work of one of the world\u2019s most famous artists to the glob\u00adal mass\u00ades.\u201d<\/p>\n The muse\u00adums rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded here are all in the Nether\u00adlands and include the Van Gogh Muse\u00adum, Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Muse\u00adum, the Rijksmu\u00adse\u00adum, the Nether\u00adlands Insti\u00adtute for Art His\u00adto\u00adry, and the Muse\u00adum Boi\u00adj\u00admans Van Beunin\u00adgen. Van Gogh was not only a pro\u00adlif\u00adic painter, of shin\u00ading night scenes and oth\u00ader\u00adwise, but he was \u201calso a pro\u00adlif\u00adic sketch artist. His pen\u00adcil and paper draw\u00adings are worth explo\u00adration; they depict land\u00adscapes as well as emo\u00adtive fig\u00adures from Van Gogh\u2019s every\u00adday life.\u00a0Van Gogh World\u00adwide<\/a>\u00a0pro\u00advides insight into these works of art and the artist behind them. One can also find behind-the-scenes muse\u00adum infor\u00adma\u00adtion, such as details of restora\u00adtions, ver\u00adso (back) images, and oth\u00ader cura\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal notes.\u201d<\/p>\n Van Gogh World\u00adwide<\/a>\u00a0expands oth\u00ader dig\u00adi\u00adtal col\u00adlec\u00adtions like the Van Gogh Museum\u2019s almost 1,000 online works<\/a>. Where that resource includes short infor\u00adma\u00adtion\u00adal arti\u00adcles and links to lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture about the art\u00adworks, Van Gogh World\u00adwide<\/a> does not, as yet, fea\u00adture such addi\u00adtion\u00adal mate\u00adri\u00adals, but it does include links to Van Gogh\u2019s let\u00adters. In one of them, he\u00a0writes to his broth\u00ader, Theo<\/a>, about their par\u00adents: \u201cThey\u2019ll find it dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to under\u00adstand my state of mind, and not know what dri\u00adves me when they see me do things that seem strange and pecu\u00adliar to them\u2014will blame them on dis\u00adsat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion, indif\u00adfer\u00adence or non\u00adcha\u00adlance, while the cause lies else\u00adwhere, name\u00adly the desire, at all costs, to pur\u00adsue what I must have for my work.\u201d<\/p>\n Note: An ear\u00adli\u00ader ver\u00adsion of this post appeared on our site in 2020.<\/p>\n Relat\u00aded Con\u00adtent:\u00a0<\/p>\n Vin\u00adcent Van Gogh\u2019s \u201cThe Star\u00adry Night\u201d: Why It\u2019s a Great Paint\u00ading in 15 Min\u00adutes<\/a><\/p>\n Down\u00adload Hun\u00addreds of Van Gogh Paint\u00adings, Sketch\u00ades & Let\u00adters in High Res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion<\/a><\/p>\n Dis\u00adcov\u00ader the Only Paint\u00ading Van Gogh Ever Sold Dur\u00ading His Life\u00adtime<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/landscape-with-wheat-sheaves-and-rising-moon-vincent-van-gogh.jpg\")
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