![]() ![]() At the peak of her exhilaration, when she is excessively motivated to do too many things: party, run, swim, party, run swim, draw, draw, draw, and plan, plan, plan her new shrink tells her that she is a textbook case of Bipolar Disorder.Ī word about Bipolar Disorder is in order. “Jazzed”, she says, “…everything was magical and intense and bursting with universal truth.” Scary happy. The titles of his paintings offer sufficient clue (‘Anxiety’, Melancholy’, ‘Despair’, ‘Jealousy’) – Munch was tormented by mental illness for much of his life.Īuthor Forney is happy when Marbles begins. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder…My sufferings are part of my self and my art. My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Of his life and work, Munch is reported to have said: I haven’t taken an art class in my life, but the angst erupting from Munch’s artwork is almost palpable. Many weeks ago, while I was still reading Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir (2012) by Ellen Forney, I visited an Edvard Munch exhibition at Princeton University. ![]()
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