If aspiring artists know that artists suffer for their work there is a likelihood they will see suffering as a gateway toward being a ‘real’ artist. The problem however is that once the aspiring artist knows that suffering will get them what they want it is probable that the suffering is no longer suffering at […]
I have never actually seen The Shining but I have watched the documentary Room 237 which explores the different subtexts of the film many times. The ability to have an insight into something is then more important than actually seeing the work itself. Here I mean seeing the work itself in a Heideggerian sense. Not […]
David Mitchell and Stephen Fry, just to pick a few names out of a large number, are intelligent people who appear on British television regularly. It is not unfair to suggest that they themselves probably do not watch much television which will account for their higher-than-average intellect. (Their intellect my actually be why they do […]
Can artists only make two albums that can be held up as masterpieces or great works of music? Two classics. If we look at those who are heralded as geniuses within music there is a trend of those who died young. They are those who have had short careers and have released few albums. Their […]
Earlier this year Christine and the Queens released an EP called La Vita Nuova. In conjunction with the five-song project (six songs if you count the English version of ‘Je disparais dans tes bras’ ‘I disappear in your arms’ which plays over the credits) a film was also released. When I saw the fifteen-minute short […]
Outsider artists aren’t merely shown along side high art, they are high art. They simply have a label attached designating them as outsiders. They are still being defined as outsiders even now, even though outsider art has reached the point of at least being known by the late majority, if not by the ‘laggards’ as […]
There is room for the argument that dead artists impede more on there art than those who are alive. A lot of artists that are alive keep their process, sketchbooks and behind the scenes details private, whereas when people die these private collections and workspaces and houses are bought to the forefront as the last […]
Come Back To Earth 