Radwa's Reviews > Artist's Journey: The travels that inspired the artistic greats

These aren't as interesting as I thought they would be, so I'm DNFing it.

I'm always intrigued by the creative journey, and though most of the artists here aren't ones I already know, I'm excited to learn kore about the journeys that led or helped their creative processes. But this book is proving to be disappointing, as feel like wikipedia entries with nothing to them, I would've prefered it if the artists were less and the details of their journeys were more concise and detailed. instead of listing a lot of artists in these snippets, as some of these journeys can't really be considered as much.

1- Jean Michel Basquiat: this artist really did it all, between music, art, and being a celebrity. and it's another story of artists dying by drugs overdose (the second I've read today, so this is scary). the article talks about his only trip to Africa in an attempt to go back to his roots, and this also led me to search for some of his paintings since I've never heard of him before, and being associated with Warhol is interesting. but his paintings weren't really to my taste.

2- Caravaggio: An italian renaissance artists who is forced to flee to Malta after murdering someone in Rome. It's interesting that despite being on the run, he continued to marke art somehow? I think that's the interesting thing about his journey, that he managed to produce some of his famous works while on the run from one city to another. after searching for his art, I found that I was already familiar with some of his works, like the Medusa & Narcissus paintings.

3- Mary Cassatt: An American who found her calling in France, I liked some of her pastel paintings when I searched for them, but her "journey story" wasn't all that weird as I was led to belive by this book, and I think I need to lower my expectations in regards to these "journeys".

4- Paul Cezanne: on the other hand, this artist is very local, not travelling outside of France much. but it proves the differences between living in the capital Paris and going back to his provence. his art didn't really appeal to me

5- Salvador Dali: really his ego knows no bounds, but you can't deny that even to those who really don't know much about art, know the works of Dali. It's also interesting to see the amounts of success he had in the US. I always thought it happened after his death.

6- Marcel Duchamp: okay, sure. I found nothing interesting in this one.