La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
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La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
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Posthumous psychiatric diagnoses surround Vincent like a cloud—or perhaps even a cloak of protection. In his own time, he was diagnosed with epilepsy, schizophrenia and substance abuse, topped with a hunch of borderline personality and bipolar disorder assigned long after his life had elapsed. Mania might have encouraged his urge to paint, but sadness and fear found their redemption in his warm colour studies. “[I]nstead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy,” Vincent wrote. 1 Toujours is ambiguous in French in that it can mean "forever" or "still": so another translation could be, "(In that case) the sadness will still exist".
a b Kane, Peter (August 1993). "Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against the Soul". Q. No.83. p.89. Archived from the original on 11 March 2002 . Retrieved 4 January 2013. Gilbert, Pat (August 2020). "Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against the Soul – Deluxe Edition". Mojo. No.321. p.102.
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Van Gogh’s death remains curious. Conspiracy theories twine around it like the diagnoses around Vincent’s heart. It is intuitive to assume that Vincent had shot himself, a lonely end to a lonely life, a final, desperate triumph over one’s own demons. The self-fulfilling prophecy that the archetype of the artist always seems to carry with him. This seems to be the answer he wanted the world to know, the confession he gave to the police, to Gustave and to Theo. But people argue that a number of details of van Gogh’s death do not add up to suicide, such as the angle from which he was shot. 12,13 van Gogh describes his fascination with the night time sky in a 1888 letter. 10It would not be unusual for patients suffering from mental health issues to seek refuge in the night sky’s poetry, and its many stars which seem to be sewn onto the richest of dark fabrics. Vincent had allegedly been more stable in Auvers-sur-Oise than he had been in previous years. “‘ I feel absolutely calm and in a normal state’. This is what he writes me six weeks before he’s dead. How does a man go from being absolutely calm to being suicidal in six weeks?” ponders Irish comedian Chris O’Dowd’s character, a postman, in 2017’s Loving Vincent. 12
to Willemien van Gogh, Date: Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888, 678 (681, W7): To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888. — Vincent van Gogh Letters Clarke, Allison (25 April 2016). "Manic Street Preachers: Anything but Everything Must Go". LouderSound . Retrieved 19 May 2020.
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But eventually, in 1890 van Gogh attempted to take his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a few miles north of Paris. Shortly after he confessed to his younger brother Theo that for him, “la tristesse durera toujours” (“ the sadness will last forever.”) 2Two days later, he surrendered to death. Simon Price of The Telegraph opined that the lyrics on Gold Against the Soul "switched from the political [of Generation Terrorists] to the personal". [5] The lyrical content is considerably less political than their previous album Generation Terrorists, and the album is more reflective of the despair and melancholy of their later work. [3] Carr, Paul (12 June 2020). "Manic Street Preachers Remaster 'Gold Against the Soul' with Deluxe Edition". PopMatters . Retrieved 3 July 2020. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.” 8
Stokes, Paul (12 May 2011). "Album A&E – Manic Street Preachers, 'Gold Against The Soul' ". NME . Retrieved 31 December 2014. I definitely want to paint a starry sky now. It often seems to me that the night is even more richly coloured than the day, coloured in the most intense violets, blues and greens.
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a b Price, Simon (24 October 2004). "Manic Street Preachers: Sublime and ridiculous". The Telegraph . Retrieved 1 November 2020.
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