Art is generally fueled from the artists need to get some emotion out into the world and out of their head’s. I am an amateur painter and probably an amateur writer. But, I still have the desire to put my art out there. Usually, this is euphoric, to release whatever feeling or ideas, that you have and see it created by our hands in a physical manifestation. Artists can be neurotic about their work because it can be lethargic or demonstrative of their personas. The best art is usually derived from pain or longing. Some of the most prolific and admired authors and artists were drugged, drunk, or depressed when writing our great classics.
So what happens when life seems to go your way. It is hard to be artistic. Do I feel like harping on Trump’s disastrous campaign, yes, but right now, I do not want anything to burst my bubble. Many people have very strong opinions about Yoko Ono because they blame her for John Lennon separating the Beetles and focusing on himself, and his wife. Well, it was his life and was happy. So the music changed, and he focused more on politics and social reform, but he did what artists do and express themselves. Van Gogh starved a lot and was institutionalized and just kept painting. The Bronte sisters each felt restrained by society and wrote to express themselves. More likely they wrote during long boring days locked up in the house listening to the clock chime.
That’s when artistic blocks happen when everything is great and focus is not so deeply on your feelings that bring that rawness that speaks from the soul, but more the shift is toward the brightness of our day and prospects. Sometimes I have noticed that I will not sketch for months and then when I feel that specific need to release the negativity, sadness, happiness, any other emotional state. I am frenzied to finish by art by whatever medium I want and those passions are released.
Then, the lull of happiness contorts and deadlines are made and stress manifests into writers block, artistic stagnancy, and that creates a complex. A destructive one. Countless Hollywood stories abound about the personal trials and tribulations of artist’s lives. Now that is an emotion that is contrary to a peaceful existence. It is taught that Arthur Miller”s play, The Crucible, which is said to be an allegory to McCarthyism period of the 1950’s. If McCarthy hadn’t attacked so many artists and had not blacklisted and investigated Hollywood lives then it is my opinion that Arthur Murray probably wouldn’t have written the play and The Crucible, which I think is mandatory reading ,or at least it was for me would exist. So that brings out back to having an artistic block can be a respite for you. Understanding was your artistic stems from is a major point of reflection. So for your own sanity accept that it might just mean that you are happy and that is something that artists have to realize and live in the moment.
