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Originally Posted by Cantando  It could be argued that there is little correlation between living in the beautiful, present moment and being a great artist, in fact, quite the opposite. Many great artists (including rock musicians like Hendrix and Jim Morrison) resorted to alcohol or drugs because they couldn’t face being in the present moment. It was too painful for them |
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Artists have often used sufferings of the past as subject material for their work. Picasso painted an incredible, abstract painting of the bombing of the Spanish town, Guernica, by the Nazis in 1936. He was expressing the pain and suffering which he and others had felt at that time. So, no, being happy, happy, happy in the present moment, is not a prerequisite for producing great works of art.
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I didn't say anything about happiness. Not everyone on this forum is as airy-fairy as you think.
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Guernica:
From the beginning, Picasso chooses not to represent the horror of Guernica in realist or romantic terms. Key figures — a woman with outstretched arms, a bull, an agonized horse — are refined in sketch after sketch, then transferred to the capacious canvas, which he also reworks several times.
"A painting is not thought out and settled in advance," said Picasso. "While it is being done, it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it's finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it."