The question

Does art imply the existence 

of any kind of disorder

CULTURAL CONTEXT

There is always a gap between the individual and their reflection, between words and their echoes, between social life, made up of small-scale transactions and fleeting moments, and true life, as it can be, infinitely inventive over time.

Vladimir Nabokov

said it better than anyone:

"Today more than ever, the poet must be as free, wild, and solitary as Pushkin wanted a hundred years ago. Sometimes, perhaps, even the purest artist is tempted to speak out when the clamor of his century, the cries of those being slaughtered, or the growl of some brute reach him:

but it is a temptation to which he must not succumb. For he can be sure that if the endeavor is worthwhile, it will ripen and later bear unexpected fruit.

No, decidedly, so-called social life and all that stirs my fellow citizens has no place in my lamp's sphere: and if I do not claim my ivory tower, it is because I am content with my attic."

SUMMARY

A / Absence / A.I. / Ambitions / ARTS B / Belle de jour / Bovary C / Caldera / Confidences  / Consents D / Dreams E / Escapes / Ecstasies / Enjoyments / Exhibitions G / Glutony H / Hallucinations K / King Kong theory M / Madness / Magic N / NIGHT / Night meetings / North / Nothing O / Origines / Overlays R / Rebellions / Rendez-vous / Resentments S / Sirens T / Tourism V / Vices and virtues / Viewers W / Winds

TRIBUTES / Goya / Ingres / Manet / Marlene Dumas / Rops / Rodin /

STUDIES

ARCHIVES Museums / Showcases / Others