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Originally Posted by Vjo
Thanks for the link. How cool you can get all these paintings off Google. Never thought of that. The paintings of his boots.. shows ya there wasn't a hell of a lot to do for entertainment in what the 1600's.  Get high and paint.
Wonder what was his drug of choice was in those days. Hashish? Mushrooms? Alcohol? None? Yeah right There are so many strokes in a typical painting. It's pretty amazing. |
Mid to late nineteenth century.
Absinthe like most great artists of that and the proceeding period or 2 in Europe.
He also had a badass case of mental illness(anyone's guess which, probably schitzo, bipolar or something along those lines or combination therein) along with a possible case of syphilis(again, speculation).