Review: Interesting Insights into Van Gogh's Inner Struggles
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2013
I have always appreciated Van Gogh as an artist and wondered about his legendary personal problems.  I am grateful that a friend suggested Van Gogh's Inner Struggle.  I did not realize how much his religious faith had on his outlook on life and how it both helped him cope and also held him back from success at times.  It is easy to see how his melancholy personality affected his life and his art, but his mental illness was something he could not control and yet he fought it quite bravely.  The advantage in looking at his inner struggles is that he wrote so many letters (like a modern day blogger), and wrote about his own feelings without the inhibitions that most of us have.  It seems like the art and the writing together were both good therapy for him.