Not all artists led tormented, tumultuous lives. Several, in fact, took perfectly ordinary paths, enjoyed successful careers, and, in the fullness of time, died. Yet many of the most famous artists staggered from one crisis to another. Rembrandt watched all his worldly possessions disappear in a humiliating bankruptcy. Jacques-Louis David nearly lost his head during the French Revolution. And Andy Warhol got himself shot by a radical feminist. Several developed serious addictions (yes, you, Dante Gabriel Rossetti), a few had criminal records (how do you plead, Henri Rousseau?), and at least one regularly beat up his wife. (Hey, Edward Hopper, it’s no excuse that she gave as good as she got.) Still, not all artists had it tough. Marc Chagall grew up in a close-knit family bound by love and faith unlike Leonardo da Vinci, who was illegitimate; Jackson Pollock, whose family took a head-first plunge into poverty; or Georgia O’Keeffe, who watched her father succumb to chronic alcoholism and her mother to tuberculosis. [download]
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