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Artist And Insanity. From Classical Antiquity To The Modern Age

Nowadays the meanings of the concepts ‘artist’ and ‘insanity’ are quite obscure. According to postmodernists, ‘the author is dead’; according to modern psychologists, there are no ‘normal’ people at all. What is more, it is not obvious what kind of person could be considered ‘normal’ and who could be referred to as ‘artist’. The article seeks to examine the correlation between such concepts as ‘artist’ (in broad terms), ‘creation’, and ‘insanity’. The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the evolution of the concepts ‘creation’ and ‘insanity’ in people’s minds from Antiquity to the Modern Age. In Antiquity, the process of creation was related to ecstasy. An artist created a piece in an ecstatic state of mind similar to a temporary frenzy. In the Middle Ages, people expected a divine insight from an ecstatic practice, but not from a creative work. In the Renaissance, a creative state of mind and insanity became absolutely different from each other. They could only have one touch-point: an artist could become insane if he sought help from the Devil. In the Modern Age, there was a slow transition from the faith in the omnipotence of human reason to the acknowledgment that its abilities are limited. In the 20th century, an artist and a madman were considered to have a lot of similarities. © 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK