Inside The Artist's Mind

  • Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night

    After suffering from occasional hallucinations and bouts of paranoia, he was diagnosed with the early stages of schizophrenia. But it wasn't long before his mental health took a turn for the worse. His symptoms worsened dramatically as he slipped into deep depressive episodes. A major shift in his work occurred around that time as he abandoned the bright colors of the beginning and returned to using darker hues and more muted tones.