Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

The Flight and the Downfall of the Demon: Creativity and Illness in Vrubel's Life

2003; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/096777200301100313

1758-1087

Vladimir Lerner, Eliezer Wiztum,

Samuel Beckett and Modernism

The life of Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910), the Russian painter, combined remarkable artistic accomplishments with severe psychopathology. We have attempted to examine the influence of the changes in the artist's emotional state on the creative process. The contradictions that abound in the descriptions of Vrubel's character and conduct should, in all likelihood, be attributed not only to the complexity of his personality but also to the effect of psychopathology on his behaviour. We believe that Vrubel suffered from mood disorder, complicated by syphilis.