Vincent had a reputations of a crazy artist, but that is not the only “crazy thing he did”. He was in love with a maid named Rachel, and to show his love for her, he mutilated himself by cutting off his ear and dropped it off at a brothel, the house the woman stayed at. The next day he was sent to a mental asylum in Arles called, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The following night, he looked out his window at the village down below and started to paint the view. This is how The Starry Night came to be (Lego 2013). With the ear incident and him struggling with mental health his entire life, I feel like when he was staring at that window he saw a sign of hope as he painted the bright stars over the dark landscape of the village. The part that really
