RE: ADSactly Culture - The Life of Tortured Artists #1 (Vincent Van Gogh)
I do not want to fall into clichés, but it is curious that many of the great universal artists tend to be depressed, manic, alcoholic or drug addicts ... I think much of his work is due to that parallel world and their lives disturbed. There is a kind of germ in the madness and in the overflow sensitivity an artist has. In particular, Sylvia Plath is a writer who echoes in me. His life, his disorders, his death always worry me. His head in the oven and children's breakfast prepared as if he were just going for a walk, he tells me about a woman who was very bad and very lonely. To all this, I see that there is a kind of morbid on the part of others, who idealize the madness of the artist only when they have died. This series is interesting, @honeydue. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, Sylvia was tragically plagued by sadness throughout her life. In an interesting coincidence, I wrote about Sylvia in the next installment of the series :) You might like that. But yeah, it's a terrible story. I got to feeling very down while writing about her. More so than any of the other figures in this series...
I've heard it said by some that Plath didn't really intend to kill herself, that it was a cry for help and she meant to be found (there was a man who called there everyday and she meant for him to find her while still alive), sadly, the evidence and the way she isolated her children's rooms suggests otherwise.
Anyway, yes, you're very right. Both Van Gogh and Plath (as well as many others, of course) only became admired artists and were considered geniuses after their suicides, which is a real shame.