People often think of art as sacred. Artists' works often make people marvel at their perspective and understanding of life. However, artists are a special group. Some people even think that you cannot be an artist without being a psychopath, and that artists must have quirks. Although this is too absolute, the author found in reading that many art celebrities have some sexual quirks, to name a few. This excerpt is not intended to prove anything, but through some of their habits, it may be possible to humanize them from the sacred position and step down from the altar. It can also be seen from the side that art and artists cannot be simple. Equivalent, thereby having a more thorough understanding of the artist or at least closer to his original appearance.
Among the painters, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, etc. all have unique views on love and sex.
In his early years, Van Gogh proposed to Laura Loyle, the daughter of his landlord, but was rejected. Later, he suffered many love failures. He complained: "I must have a woman, otherwise I will become rigid and turn into a stone." As a result, he often visited brothels, contracted sexually transmitted diseases from time to time, and often complained that his sexual function was getting worse and worse. He was jealous of his friend Gauguin who was very good at having fun with prostitutes. During a quarrel, he cut off a piece of his ear skin, put it in an envelope and gave it to a man who did not want to reconcile with him but had a fierce fight with Gauguin. When the prostitute opened the envelope and saw the bloody ear skin, she fainted on the spot. After a series of failures, he himself concluded: "Painting and making love are incompatible; making love will make people dizzy... If you want your works to truly have masculine vitality, you must always remind yourself not to waste too much on women." Many.
Gauguin, a friend of Van Gogh, boldly depicted the primitive and simple life on the Polynesian Islands in the South Pacific with his colorful and unique brushes, opening up a new artistic world for the West. There was a period of exotic wildness on the Pacific island of Shivawa. He rented a hut there, filled it with pornographic photos, and began to live the most bohemian life in the world for any local woman, young or old. Regardless of whether he was beautiful or ugly, he could sleep in his bed anyway. For this reason, he soon contracted syphilis. He did not wait for syphilis to end his life, but died suddenly of a heart attack in 1909. Regarding women and sex, he once said: "In Europe, sexual intercourse between men and women is the result of love. In the South Pacific, love is the result of sexual intercourse. Which one is right? We Europeans always think that it is a sin for men and women to have sexual relations before falling in love. In fact, this is very problematic... The real sin is that men and women sell their bodies for money... Women want to be free. This is their right, but Only when a woman no longer puts her reputation under her belly button, will she be free - and perhaps healthier..."
This view is shocking, but when you think about it carefully, it is also thought-provoking. .
The romantic relationship of the abstract painter Picasso is better known to the world than the above two. Generally speaking, Picasso liked young and beautiful women throughout his life, before and after he had sex with a woman. This woman is often his model, as are his wives and many mistresses. He said: "Dogs in the world are all alike, and so are women. "Pierre Capon, an authoritative scholar who studied Picasso, once pointed out: "The pursuit of sexual excitement was the basic motivation for his love of women; in his view, desire is violence, venting, turmoil, resentment and unrestrainedness. Capone felt that a passage in "The Diary of Anneis Nin" provided clues to Picasso's attitude towards women: "Alice Palen, the wife of the Surrealist painter Wolfgang Palen, was Picasso's mistress." . She said that Picasso always took pleasure in preventing women from reaching orgasm. As Erold said in 1942, quoting an analysis of Picasso's handwriting: "Love so intensely that you destroy something, that's what he loved to do." ’”
Picasso himself said: “When we love a woman, we don’t start by measuring her thighs. In my opinion, there are only two kinds of women in the world "—the noble goddess and the lowly maid."
Literature is largely emotional, and many writers pursue sex appeal, including many famous writers. , such as Byron, Hugo, Tolstoy, Hemingway, etc.
The talented British poet Sir Byron can be said to be the incarnation and symbol of romanticism in the 19th century. He has won world reputation as a lonely and painful so-called "Byronic hero". However, his private life was full of absurdities.
When Byron was 9 years old, their young nanny, May Gray, aroused his great sexual curiosity. After Byron entered Harrow School, an aristocratic school in England, he was easily involved in some sexual activities at school because of his desire to continue to have sexual stimulation. In 1805, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, and later studied in London on and off for three years. During this period, he lived a dissolute life, became addicted to alcohol, and almost died. He smoked opium, visited prostitutes, and had two mistresses. One of them he even made her wear men's clothes, saying that it was his cousin who was covering up. But it was later exposed, because on one occasion, "the young 'gentleman' had a miscarriage in a private hotel in Bond Street, leaving the maids stunned."
Byron had affairs with multiple women throughout his life. In 1813 he was even accused of seducing his half-sister Augusta Leigh.
Byron once estimated that almost half of his annual expenses were "sex expenses", which were paid to more than two hundred women. "Perhaps more than half," he once wrote, "because I didn't keep my accounts carefully." Not only did he spend a lot of money, but he also paid the price. He had suffered from gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease known as the "Curse of Venus," which was said to have been transmitted to him by his mistress.
Byron’s romance and debauchery are evident.
Victor Hugo was both a towering figure in 19th-century French literature and a political driving force in that turbulent period. He was a genius, a tall, strong and energetic man, and a great writer with a lifelong "sexual interest".
After his relationship with his wife broke down, he pursued Juliette Drouet and nicknamed her "Ruru". Their love lasted for fifty years.
Although he cannot live without "Ruru", Hugo still wants to "see everywhere". There is a long list of women who were "conquered" by Hugo. In 1841, Hugo met Aune's wife, Léonie Biard, who was 20 years younger than him. On July 2, 1845, Hugo and Leoni were caught red-handed. At that time, he had been a member of the House of Lords for two months. The Communist Party and party newspapers openly ridiculed Hugo, saying: "A successful and famous man was found to have committed adultery with the wife of a painter. This is simply a farce."
In addition, Hugo also Other lovers: the actress Alice Ozzie (sought from his son Charles), the tragic actress Mademoiselle Rachel, the upper-class Madame Genette, and the poet Louis Collet. Later, when he was exiled to Hauteville, Hugo asked someone to arrange for the maid to live on the same floor as him. He possessed them during breaks in writing.
The older Hugo gets, the more he needs women. Juliet once said sadly: "He is crazy about chasing fresh flesh." The doctor told him not to keep looking for "young women", but he still went his own way. It was not until 1885 that death brought an end to Hugo's crazy "sexual interest."
Like most men in the 19th century, Leo Tolstoy lost his virginity in a brothel when he was only 16 years old. Regarding this incident, he later recalled: "The first time my brother dragged me into a brothel, I did it. After doing it, I sat at the foot of the woman's bed and cried."
Tolstoy was in the alternation between erotic impulse and conscience condemnation throughout his life. "Having fun with women," he wrote in his diary, "must be a social evil, so avoid women as much as possible." But he did not follow his own admonition, as he later admitted to Chekhov, He is "insatiable."
When he lived in his manor in 1849, he seduced a maid, a dark-eyed girl named Gaza.
Tolstoy later talked to Gorky about his regrets about his sexual life. He said: "People can endure earthquakes, plagues, fatal diseases and various forms of mental torture; but when it comes to death, The most terrible tragedy in the world will always be the tragedy in the bedroom."
Tolstoy struggled with lust throughout his life.
Regarding how a man deals with his lust, he once made this summary in his diary: "The best way to deal with sexual desire is: (1) to completely destroy it in your heart; secondly (2) to be with a person who is kind-hearted. And live with a loyal woman, have children with her, help and love each other; (3) go to a brothel when you are horny and unbearable; (4) have short-term affairs with various women None of the relationships lasted; (5) having sex with a young girl and then abandoning her; (6) committing adultery with a married woman; and worst of all, (6) having sex with an unfaithful, immoral man Women live together."
In addition, Mark Twain liked to write some erotic articles and poems, and sometimes took them to his favorite woods to read, and laughed wildly while reading; Dosto Jevsky’s sexual fantasies and foot fetishes. At the age of 57, he also said: "My sexual fantasies and sexual ecstasies are endless."; "Ulysses" author Joyce's obscene fetishes—— He likes women's used bras and underwear; Hemingway's weird theories about sex, such as his belief that there is a fixed number of orgasms in a man's life, so we should take them seriously and it is best to use them separately. These actions and remarks of the writer make us feel that they are different from the previous image in our minds.
Among the writers, Gide and Wilde were both homosexuals. Wilde was also sentenced to two years of hard labor for homosexual behavior, which became a sensational scandal. As for D. H. Lawrence, his friend and biographer Richard Eddington said: "I think D. H. Lawrence was 85% heterosexual and 15% homosexual."
These all illustrate from the side that the group of writers is a special and complex group, and it is often difficult for us to get a full picture of them from their works.
Music makes people intoxicated and elegant. Some of the remarks made by the musicians I admire, Mozart and Chopin, also surprised me.
Mozart, considered a typical example of "pure genius" in history, was the greatest master of musical technique in any era and one of the most creative artists in the world. When he was young, he wrote many letters to his cousin. From these letters, we can see that he had a certain degree of coprophilia, that is, he liked to mix his sex and excretion. For example, in one letter he wrote: "Oh, my ass is on fire! ... Maybe there's shit coming out! ... What is that? - Maybe... Oh, my God! ... …How can I believe my ears? Yes, it is so—what a long, sad sound!…I put my piss on your nose, and it goes down and down. Into your mouth... Do you still love me?"
However, since he fell in love with Constanze, such obscene words no longer appear in his letters,
Chopin is the founder of the romantic piano playing style. In addition, he also enjoys a high reputation for composing many bitter and sweet piano music, and is known as the "piano poet".
It is said that he once wrote a sexually explicit letter to his first female student, saying something like this: "I really want something to fall into your little hole, like D major, one of the two white keys, one black key..."
Whether this is true is unknown.
The above is a glimpse of the sexual quirks of art celebrities. Artists are a talented group, which are often more attractive to women, and their many weird personalities may cause them disharmony in love, marriage, etc. This There may be a certain connection with the formation of these quirks, and other reasons are mostly related to one's own growth experience, or physiological or psychological, to name a few. It may be used as a topic for research, but this article is only a record. It is also a collection of thoughts that I came across occasionally while reading. It is a collection of some thoughts at the beginning of the text.