Many things make people think artists
are weird-the odd hours, the nonconformity, the clove cigarettes. But the
weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they
choose to focus on the ones that feel lousy. Art today can give you anomie, no
problem. Bittersweetness You got it. Tristesse What size you want that in But
great art, as defined by those in the great-art-defining business, is almost
never about simple, unironic happiness. This wasn’t always so.
The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for
expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing
happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring-in Tolstoy’s words, "All
happy families are alike." We went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s
flowers of evil. In the 20th century A. Being miserable. B. Being eccentric. C. Being unironic. D. Being emotional.
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