Was Van Gogh a mad genius?
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His brief, turbulent, and tragic life is thought to epitomize the mad genius legend. The great majority of the works by which he is remembered were produced in 29 months of frenzied activity and intermittent bouts with epileptoid seizures and profound despair that finally ended in suicide. At Arles he was joined by Gauguin for a brief period fraught with tension, during which he mutilated his left ear in the course of his first attack of dementia. He despaired and shot himself, dying two days later in the arms of his brother.
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