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KMID : 1148220200160010189
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2020 Volume.16 No. 1 p.189 ~ p.218
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A Analytical Study of Vincent Van Gogh's Self-Portraits from a perspective of Self-Concept and Self-Healing
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Park Wan-Yong
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Abstract
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This study is aimed at exploring the changes of Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait and the meaning from a perspective of self-concept and self-healing. Gogh’s life was an endless chain of failures and setbacks. For him, Painting is salvation and especially, Self-portraits were both a reflection of his soul and a way of self-exploration and self-healing. Van Gogh sought to find himself through self-portraits and pursue inner expression without restraint to get inner energy and realize meaning of life. Therefore, Gogh's self-portrait changed from realistic self-portrait to internal self-portrait, and is consistently changing to not as an external description but as an expression of internal vitality. This study analyzed the process of change of his works by time and content of self-portrait of Van Gogh. The change by period changed according to the setting of self-concept, and the change by content changed from realistic self-portrait to subjective and internal self-portrait by color and touch. As a conclusion, first, Gogh produced his self-portrait as the process of recognizing and confirming self-concept. Secondly, Van Gogh produced the method of expressing internality and self-realization through continuous pictorial attempts of self-portrait. This attempt was his self-identification and self-realization to live a meaningful life. Finally, through self-portraits, he sublimated his life and experienced self-healing. From the conclusion of this study, it can be seen that self-portrait was able to be important meaning in self-concept and self-healing through the art.
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KEYWORD
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Vincent Van Gogh, Self-Portrait, Self-Concept, Self-Healing
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