Brief post, since it’s finals week! But I owe many more posts during winter break, before I go off to Italy (!)– it’s been quite an exciting semester, full of awesome art seen, tours given, and people I’ve met (Arthur Wheelock! Possibly the coolest art-historian-AND-museum-person ever born? Yes, I’d say that’s no exagerration). So all that to come, but for now…
I just found this interesting article about the links between phsyical ailments and/or psychological disorders and artists and their output. I think that a lot of this information has been floating around the edges of art historical research for a while, but it’s interesting that this doctor takes the study to a distinctly scientific level, discussing Cassat’s cataracts, Degas’ arthritis, and van Gogh’s many issues, as they relate to the artists’ work. Cool study!