![]() ![]() Matisse – famous for his intense, saturated colours that seem to blaze with life – initially studied law and had begun work as a court administrator when an attack of appendicitis forced him to take time out. For some artists, it led directly to a choice of career. Much has been made of the link between creativity and mental illness, but the link between physical illness and the creative life, though less discussed, is just as significant. Clearly, we’re in the realms of metaphor: Plath believed that a life lived by a false self or selves was both cowardly and senseless time and again her poems propound the wisdom of shedding false identities. But it is the old, yellow self that plays host to this gleaming other. Superior, it transpires, only inasmuch as the plaster self doesn’t need food to sustain it and is “whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints”.
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