There have been many theories from pdocs about what was wrong with Van Gogh. I have miagrines with aura and BP2. I'm also an artist. I paint what I "see" and some of my work is abstract or impressionist, sometimes even cubist. When I have a miagraine aura sometimes things look incredibly vivid with bright almost psychedelic colors. Sometimes everything is little squares almost like a pixelated picture.

I told my pdoc and neurologist about this and their answer was "some people just see things differently". That's an understatement! So was Van Gogh schizophrenic, who knows.? It's entirely possible that he was BP and just had a wild and crazy way of seeing things.