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Posthumous psychiatric diagnoses surround Vincent like a cloud—or perhaps even a cloak of protection. In his own time, he was diagnosed with epilepsy, schizophrenia and substance abuse, topped with a hunch of borderline personality and bipolar disorder assigned long after his life had elapsed. Mania might have encouraged his urge to paint, but sadness and fear found their redemption in his warm colour studies. “[I]nstead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy,” Vincent wrote. 1 Van Gogh’s death remains curious. Conspiracy theories twine around it like the diagnoses around Vincent’s heart. It is intuitive to assume that Vincent had shot himself, a lonely end to a lonely life, a final, desperate triumph over one’s own demons. The self-fulfilling prophecy that the archetype of the artist always seems to carry with him. This seems to be the answer he wanted the world to know, the confession he gave to the police, to Gustave and to Theo. But people argue that a number of details of van Gogh’s death do not add up to suicide, such as the angle from which he was shot. 12,13 The sadness will last forever” Theo van Gogh. Letter to Elisabeth van Gogh. Written 5 August 1890 in Paris. Translated and edited by Robert Harrison.
to Willemien van Gogh, Date: Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888, 678 (681, W7): To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888. — Vincent van Gogh LettersGourlay, Dom (22 June 2020). "Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against the Soul – Deluxe Edition (Columbia/Sony)". Under the Radar . Retrieved 3 July 2020. Doyle, Tom (June 1996). "Manic Street Preachers: Everything Must Go". Q. EMAP. p.116. Archived from the original on 21 April 2001 . Retrieved 23 August 2020. Tangari, Joe (17 January 2005). "Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible". Pitchfork . Retrieved 9 January 2012. Stokes, Paul (12 May 2011). "Album A&E – Manic Street Preachers, 'Gold Against The Soul' ". NME . Retrieved 31 December 2014. Ewing, Tom (26 November 1999). "19. Manic Street Preachers – "Motorcycle Emptiness" ". Freaky Trigger . Retrieved 2 June 2019.
Other interpretationsread into Vincent’s Starry Nighta sense of restlessness, a very nervous and strained state of mind fleshed out by the play of light and darkness. In those readings, the village below represents the calm he sought, with the house’s lit windows representing a guiding hope towards the future. Clarke, Allison (25 April 2016). "Manic Street Preachers: Anything but Everything Must Go". LouderSound . Retrieved 19 May 2020.Gold Against the Soul saw the band experiment with styles including funk and grunge. [1] [2] The album's lyrical themes owed little to the political and social commentaries of its predecessor, and instead explored more personal themes of depression, melancholy and nostalgia. [3] Recording [ edit ] a b Wilding, Philip (12 December 2017). "The Manic Street Preachers: Their best songs in their own words". Louder . Retrieved 19 August 2021. a b c de Sylvia, Dave (20 August 2005). "Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul". Sputnikmusic . Retrieved 27 November 2012.
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