Edvard Munch during an epidemic of Spanish flu in the early twentieth century he contracted the disease. The author of “Scream” with his interest in all things painful could not pass their condition and drew a “self Portrait after Spanish flu” (1919). At that time Munch was already about 50 years, but a strong Constitution and strong immune system, apparently, helped him cope with the disease. Unlike their creative counterparts Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt who died from complications of the disease, Munch lived for about 25 years.
Frida Kahlo at the beginning of his life he suffered two serious illness, long chained her to her bed. At the age of six she was stricken with polio, which gave a complication in his leg, and after 12 years she damaged her spine and pelvis when the bus she was riding collided with a tram. Dreamed to devote himself to medicine, Frida during the long recovery and all your strength and energy directed to the work. Even when she spends her days could not get out of bed, continued to work, creating the special easel and a mirror.
American sculptor of Japanese origin Ruth Asawa is famous worldwide for its mysterious, almost mystical woven baskets, sculptures. Asawa was a supporter of arts education and one of the initiators of the school of the arts in San Francisco, which today bears her name. His career of 16-year-old Ruth began in a Japanese detention camps for internees during the Second world war. The first five months she spent at the Santa Anita race track, where people lived in the converted stables for horses and covered with tar barracks. There she met with artists of the Studio “Disney” as internees like she who taught the talented girl the basics of drawing. Later Ruth Asawa wrote: “I’m not mad at anyone for what happened and not blaming anyone. Sometimes good comes through adversity. I wouldn’t be who I am, if not for the internment, and I like who I’ve become.”
a Contemporary Turkish artist Gulsen Karamustafa is considered one of the most outspoken artists of Turkey who are not afraid to explore social and political problems. Their works she creates using collage, costumes, masks and props. In 1971, during the Turkish revolution, she was arrested for helping political dissidents. After his release and a ban on leaving the country for 16 years, she wrote her powerful series “prison art”: this 15 works depicting life in prison artist and her cellmates.
had to spend some time in prison and the Austrian painter and graphics Egon Schiele, whose work with explicit sexual overtones caused outrage and negadotion of many of his contemporaries. Due to the accusations of pornography he had been in prison for 24 days. After the liberation, Schiele created a series “the prison drawings”, in which he managed to Express all of his conflicting emotions and experiences. These works are still considered to be the most significant in his career.
Contemporary artist Tracy Emin in 1996, conducted an unusual experiment – for two weeks she locked herself alone in the Stockholm gallery, taking only white canvases and art supplies. For a bright and emotional creative process of the artist can be observed through a special lens, mounted in the walls of the gallery. The artist first imitated their idols, Schiele, Munch and Yves Klein, and then managed to find her own visual language. Thus was born one of the most important projects in her career called “the Exorcism of my last painting I ever made,” and that 12 large canvases, seven canvases in human growth and 79 drawings and sketches.
Finally, the American photographer and musician Barbara ESS was famous because of its dark and ghostly photos taken with the camera obscura. But in 2018 ESS was locked in his apartment with a heavy bronchitis. After spending a month locked up, she fixed her lens on the views from his apartment and the small details of everyday life. Thus was born her famous series of “Hermits” (“Shut In”).
