van Gogh Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of van Gogh? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for van Gogh from Fategr& Order and what is the personality traits.
INFP (4w5)
van Gogh personality type is INFP, and I'm a strong believer that a true creative person is a creative person, regardless of the work they do.
As a result, I can't help but wonder if the creative process was indeed a bit too easy for him, and if it robbed Vincent Van Gogh of a sense of real achievement.
In my previous post about Vincent Van Gogh, I described how he established his creative process as a cycle of four days:
On the first day, he would "lay out" his ideas on paper, which he would then review on the next day. On the second day, he would draw the idea into a painting, and on the third day, he would critique and "fix" his paintings for the next day. On the fourth day, he would complete and deliver the paintings to his patron.
I described this creative process as ideal because it was very collaborative and mentally stimulating, but I also said that Vincent Van Gogh was "too good" at it.
Why? Because as an INFP, he tended to be "perfectionistic" and overly focused on getting things "right" (INTPs tend to be perfectionistic as well).
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits; they are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. Not commercially successful, he struggled with severe depression and poverty, eventually leading to his suicide at age thirty-seven. Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet, and thoughtful. As a young man, he worked as an art dealer, often traveling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium.
