Vincent Van Gogh: The Mulberry Tree. Van Gogh Painted The Mulberry Tree In October Of 1889 Less Than A Year Before He Would Die. Like Most Of His Art, It Was Done During A Period Of Highs And Lows Painted During A Time Of Great Self-Awareness And Yet Surrounded By Chaos.following A Fight With His Fellow Artist Gauguin, During Which The Famous Ear Incident Occurred, Van Gogh Went To Stay At The Saint Paul Asylum In Saint-Remy. He Was There For About A Year, From May 1889 To May 1890. After The Incident In Arles, His Mental State Declined. He Became Paranoid Thinking People Were Trying To Poison Him. While At Saint-Remy He Wrote To His Brother Theo About His State Of Mind, His New Works, And The People Around Him. In The Letters He Acknowledges That He Has Been In A Bad Place Mentally, But That He Feels He Is Getting Better. Seeing All The Other Patients With Similar Issues Made Him Feel Like He Was Not Alone

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painted mulberry tree october year van gogh like art period highs lows time great self-awareness surrounded chaos following fight fellow artist gauguin famous ear incident occurred stay saint paul asylum saint-remy year may 1890 arles mental state declined paranoid thinking people poison saint-remy wrote brother theo mind works letters acknowledges bad place mentally feels patients issues feel alone