Seeing Terry's work always makes me wonder whether delusional mania was the drive behind the creation of other "big works" in religious history that are hard to comprehend in sheer scope/detail, like the Sistene Chapel.
This is a really interesting (and not a little disquieting) thought. In the case of the Sistene Chapel ceiling - the scale and artistry of which really is difficult to comprehend if you haven't seen it firsthand (truly, pictures do not in any way do it justice) - it was, at least, a commissioned piece of work, which I believe Michelangelo was initially reluctant to accept.
He rejected it because he was a sculptor and not a painter. Eventually he gave in and had to teach himself how to paint.
A lot of artists were mentally ill, and took up painting as a form of therapy.
In the USA they used to put the stupid with the smart in special schools and asylums for people with a mental illness. Once they changed that there are more disabled people now in society with a mental illness.
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Seeing Terry's work always makes me wonder whether delusional mania was the drive behind the creation of other "big works" in religious history that are hard to comprehend in sheer scope/detail, like the Sistene Chapel.
It also reminds me of the story of Bolero's dementia, a bit: http://www.radiolab.org/story/217340-unraveling-bolero/
This is a really interesting (and not a little disquieting) thought. In the case of the Sistene Chapel ceiling - the scale and artistry of which really is difficult to comprehend if you haven't seen it firsthand (truly, pictures do not in any way do it justice) - it was, at least, a commissioned piece of work, which I believe Michelangelo was initially reluctant to accept.
He rejected it because he was a sculptor and not a painter. Eventually he gave in and had to teach himself how to paint.
A lot of artists were mentally ill, and took up painting as a form of therapy.
In the USA they used to put the stupid with the smart in special schools and asylums for people with a mental illness. Once they changed that there are more disabled people now in society with a mental illness.
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