Hughes Chapter 9

Hughes states that, "physical illness may initiate, or at least accelerate, the creative pursuit of his or her vocation." I believe that to be true because if you look at Vincent Vang Gogh's art work you see how in his mind his visions are tranformened from his thoughts onto his work. He suffered from bodily illness that resulted in his different style of work. I really enjoyed the painting of "Shattered Column" by Frida Kahlo, because the way she felt in her illness state is the way she painted it to reflect the pain and how the pain feels. Maybe more artist should try to do that. To have a loss of sensory deprivation is difficult for one to live or makes it much harder. For instance Helen Keller was not only blind but deaf, and she had to learn by feelings and people showing her how to make signs with her hands to communicate. For some artists such as Edgar Allen Poe, we today may not be able to come up with mysterious yet abnormal forms of art without the ring leader himself. People now adays are allowed to go into other worlds to create different movies of oddness and may not even need to use drugs to find their visualizations. Each artist whether they be a psychotic, manic depressant, schizo, or epileptic, may experience different forms of creativity due to there disease. On the last page is dedicated to Alcoholism, alcohol is I guess consumed as a drug, anyone above the age of 21 can consume it , and its legal. But I don't necessarily believe that being "drunk" can influence you to become artistic. When your drunk your just out there and don't really remember anything let alone anyone.