About suffering, they were never wrong…
Is an understanding of suffering a necessity for creative art? Did the Old Masters painters understand the very nature of human suffering because they painted it, or because they experienced it? Dr Julian Singer reviews Djikic & Oatley, 'On the fragility of the artist: Art's precarious triad', a book chapter in J. C. Kaufman's Creativity and mental illness, Cambridge University Press, 2014.