Artists can often be great originals, and their behaviors and phobias only cause bewilderment. In this article we will talk about how famous artists freak out, which clearly proves that genius and mental health are often incompatible.
Leonardo da Vinci. Self-portrait.
Leonardo da Vinci believed that you should not sleep too long, because then there will be little time for creativity and in general for life, which, in his opinion, is very interesting. Therefore, he slept no more than 4 hours, just to avoid collapsing from fatigue.
St. John the Baptist
And he was also a real fan of all sorts of ciphers and secret messages, like a real spy. He even wrote letters in a mirror way, and you can read them only if you hold them up to a mirror. He encrypted almost all the notes about his inventions, which were many, you can remember, for example, the parachute and the helicopter. Perhaps he was just afraid that they would fall into the wrong hands and be used to harm, and humanity itself is not yet ready for his innovative ideas. And here it is hard to disagree with the great Leonardo.
Lady with an ermine
By the way, many of Leonardo's paintings remain unfinished, because until the final touch is made, the picture lives.
Salvador Dalí during a creative experiment
Salvador Dalí was a true genius of epatage, which he elevated into a cult. He walked with an anteater, spoke in front of an audience in a diver's suit, because it is easier to “swim in the ocean of subconsciousness”, and for the sake of one interview was not lazy to climb a tree.
Perhaps this is all a consequence of some childhood resentment - Salvador's parents were very grieving over the death of their firstborn and their next son gave his name, as if he was a version 2.0 of their first child. And Dali had to prove that he was an independent person, with his own oddities and quirks, and that there was no other like him anywhere in the world.
Salvador Dali. Soft self-portrait
On his relationship with the public thoroughly influenced his beloved and muse Gala: she managed to turn the oddities and eccentricities of Dali into part of the attractive image of “mad genius”, which he so diligently presented in front of everyone. And this was part of a well-thought-out marketing policy: all newspapers wrote about any of Dali's quirks, his name was always on the rumor, which inevitably affected the prices for paintings and the income received - they were very high.
Elephants
And there was something to write about: once settled in the fashionable Parisian hotel Le Meurice Dali ordered the employees to provide him with a flock of sheep in the royal suite, ostensibly for another creative experiment, and began shooting at them with a gun. At least it was loaded with blank cartridges, so the room was stained only with dung.
Sleep
He also ordered the hotel staff to catch flies, promising to pay as much as 5 francs for each one. The amount was decent, and soon all the hotel staff were engaged in catching flies “for the creative experiment of the great Dali.
The truth is that they did not get the money - Dali said that for the first time he saw so many gullible simpletons who are engaged in all sorts of nonsense, and even demanded for this unthinkable money. So any epatage was beneficial first of all to Dali himself, and all the other unwilling participants often found themselves fools.
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