Tortured artist
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The Tortured artist is a stock character and stereotype, who is in constant ferment due to frustrations with art and other people. The tortured artist feels alienated and misunderstood due to what they perceive as the ignorance or neglect of others who do not understand them, and the things they feel are important. They smoke most of the time, experience sexual frustration, and appear overwhelmed by their own emotions and inner conflicts. The tortured artist is often mocked in popular culture for being attention seeking, narcissistic, or just adverse to happiness.
Typical real-life artists include Jackson Pollock, Egon Schiele and Vincent van Gogh.
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Examples
- Pete Doherty
- Dante Alighieri
- Kurt Cobain
- Marilyn Monroe
- Ian Curtis
- Nick Drake
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Judy Garland
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Ernest Hemingway
- Daniel Johnston
- Franz Kafka
- Frida Kahlo
- John Lennon
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert Schumann
- Elliott Smith
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Hunter S. Thompson
- John Kennedy Toole
- Oscar Wilde
- Syd Barrett
- Virginia Woolf
- Jonathan Davis
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See also
- Creativity and mental illness
- Poète maudit
- Starving artist
- Unpopularity
- Byronic hero
- Tortured
- Artist
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