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by DieBruderBauer 1075 days ago
I would be surprised if they _didn't_ paint themselves into their work.

Example: Van Gogh _must have_ transferred his neuroses into his work. Without question.

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Wow... currently in Amsterdam, was just at the Van Gogh Museum a few hours ago. The article seems to be focusing on their own facial features being applied to other subjects in their works, and by doing so giving their own visage some sort of immortality.

Of course impressionistic art is going to filter reality by the internal state of the painter. That's sorta what it is by its very definition.