• 200ok@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    What’s the saying about learning the rules and then learning how to break them?

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      There’s some discussion that the weird morphing of his style was caused by undiagnosed mental illness progressing to advanced stages when he got older.

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      While not as stark a difference as Picasso I think Van Gogh is another good example of this, looking at some of his earlier works he was clearly a competent artist, but he really came into his own style later on.