If Vincent Van Gogh wasn't taking acid, he was the inspiration for it

[Further]

[MoseySusan]

I was moved to tears by a painting of a pear orchard hanging in The Van Gogh in Amsterdam. His story is remarkable. It wasn’t acid, but longing that inspired his artwork. 

[late]

He was painting what he saw, which is to say, he was losing it.

It's not like anything I saw on any hallucinogen, but that's a different story.

[Page Turner]

Creativity and chronic disease Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

 

Because numerous disorders have been diagnosed posthumously in this artist, various theories have been proposed to explain how van Gogh's physical state may have influenced his work. Two theories center on why he used so much yellow.

First, he was fond of absinthe, a popular liqueur containing thujone. Excessive consumption of this liqueur may cause the consumer to see all objects with a yellow hue. Investigations conducted in 1991, however, showed that a person must drink 182 liters of absinthe to produce this visual effect, so we can discount this theory.

A second and more likely explanation involves overmedication with digitalis. People receiving large and repeated doses of this drug often see the world with a yellow-green tint. They complain of seeing yellow spots surrounded by coronas, much like those in “The Starry Night.” The artitists's physician, Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, may have treated van Gogh's epilepsy with digitalis, a common practice at that time. In one of van Gogh's three portraits of Gachet, the physician holds a stem of Digitalis purpurea, the purple foxglove from which the drug is extracted (see figure).

[Page Turner]

[maddmaxx ★]

The life of a stoner, or why is red red?

[Prophet Zacharia]

4 hours ago, No One said:

overmedication with digitalis.

The seizures themselves could have contributed to his visual perceptions, too.