ARTISTA SANITY (GOYA)

Today has been such an arty day(if thats even a word). We've discussed how most of the famous artists and writers (for that matter anyone extremely creative) has toward the end either gone crazy, dark, or killed themselves so involved with their work that they've lost all connections with the real world and sanity(relative) Its fantastic to be a great artist and all but I wouldn't go that far. I think my sanity is far more important, thank u very much. Now lets talk about Goya for instance(coz I just bought his book) his work was all godly and frolicy(k I know thats not a word but u get the point) at first, then it revolved around the dutchess of Alba(who he is said to have had an affair with.) and her enemies. Towards the end it got all dark with Saturn, craziness, death, blood........ Somewhere in between his work had embedded in it a lot of satire. And he was one of the rare artists who painted the female nude(naked maja). But for all the naked maja's overt sexuality, the clothed maja was more erotic. They were both confiscated by the inquisition in 1815. He was damn good at what he did but I guess he crossed the line of sanity and then there was no going back....