Wen |@art Zhang Xiaoyu
There is a truth in the art world: if you are not crazy, you cannot live.
In this issue, Xiao Yu and everyone simply take stock of the crazy actions of those famous artists.
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Egon Schiller
Usually, artists go to jail for three reasons: debt, ZZ, or serious assault.
The famous Austrian painter Egon Schiller committed the third offense – in 1912 he was arrested and imprisoned for serious "depravity" crimes.
Egon Schiller painting
And such behavior, people even feel taken for granted. Because the painter's own work is filled with a strong atmosphere of restlessness.
His work falls into two categories, self-portraits and portraits. It can be said that he has painted a lot of entangled men and women, and the most fundamental emotional state of human nature is overflowing with paper, which has led to him being labeled "violated".
self-portrait
In 1911, Schiller and his 17-year-old girlfriend were evicted from the town by the residents of the town on the grounds that "the two had an overly uninhibited lifestyle" and "hired the town's underage girls as models."
The charge was not imposed on Schiller's head, because he actually hired a 13-year-old girl. Although the girl eventually returned home unscathed, a large number of works in the studio that were too individual were resented and accused, and were thrown into prison. More than a hundred paintings were also confiscated as "foul" items.
In prison, Schiller also expressed his resentment and dissatisfaction in his diary:
I saw a painting hanging in my bedroom... The judge solemnly burned it with a candle... False benevolence and false righteousness! That being the case, go to the museum and unload the greatest works of art there! People who deny desire are so inferior, just as their parents are making them, and they are doing it in the lowest way! Those who are not as miserable as I am, from now on you will have no place for yourself in front of Me!
Interestingly, Egon Schiller's prison scandal has helped his paintings to perform on the auction market.
Behind the artist's madness is a heroism of a fearless order. As Lu Xun said: "True warriors dare to face the bleak life and dare to face the dripping blood." ”
Egon Schiller's masterpiece "Death and the Maiden"
Especially in today's high degree of physical liberation, Schiller's paintings are frankly sought after by more buyers, because those uninhibited lines, colors and pictures have aroused people's yearning and admiration for freedom.
I can't imagine a painter who made himself into prison and resonated because of his "madness".
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If being thrown into prison is the punishment of the artist's madness from the outside world, then the trouble of "mental illness" is the artist's own internal torture of himself.
Although the statement that "artists are sick" is too simple and crude to make sense, creativity and delirium do have some connection.
Munch's "Scream"
In the history of art, in addition to the madman Van Gogh, who is familiar to the public, who "cut off his ears", there are many famous artists who behave strangely, mentally abnormally, or are depressed or bipolar.
For example, the Norwegian painter Munch who painted "The Scream". A member of the British royal family who visited Norway once asked the question with a puzzled face: "Is this friend (Munch) painting like this because he is a madman himself, or is it because he paints in this way that causes his madness?" ”
Munch painted vampire motifs
Arguably, this question speaks to the heart of the relationship between art and mental disorder.
In addition to Van Gogh and Munch, there are many artists on the list of "mental illness troubles", such as Pollock, Dade, Kunin, and Yayoi Kusama.
Yayoi Kusama
Hayden once described a certain stage of his mental illness in very graphic language: "The melancholy demon encroached on my heart, and grasped it tightly with its dark, sticky and skinny fingers, and then crushed its extremely restless beating." It wasn't until some sort of sanity reappeared in my fuzzy brain that I stopped imagining it! ”
In the next issue, we continue to talk about "Crazy Artists".