The mind of the artist : personality and the drive to create / William Todd Schultz.
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©[2022]Description: viii, 200 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780197611098
- 701/.15 23 S387
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-194) and index.
Traits, states, and stories -- Trait-based origins of creativity -- The unifying glue -- Chaos rainbows -- Two exemplary creators : Davie Bowie and Frida Kahlo -- The unhappiness muse -- The myth of the mentally ill artist -- Art and suicide.
"How does one get to be an artist? How does one get to be anything at all? It's not as if we come into the world with pre-set destinies, or do we? and if we do, what's actually baked in, what's learned, what's a product of circumstance? Jackson Pollock started by painting Jungian archetypes in what are called his psychoanalytic drawings. He moved on to Picassoesque figurative work, as in "Guardians of the Secret" and "Moon Woman Cuts the Circle." Then, one average day, he threw a canvas on the floor. He became, miraculously, Jack the Dripper. What he'd done was so unforeseen, so puzzling, legend has it he turned to his partner Lee Krasner (herself a painter) and asked, "Is this art?""--