Inspirational Artists : Art & Adversity

'Aye on the shores of darkness there is light'

From 'To Homer' by John Keats (1795-1821)

Physical Adversity

General sites

'Art and Arthritis: a Tale of Beauty and the Beast' (Rubens, Renoir and Klee) by Roderick Jamer, Arthritis News, Volume 12, Number 3 (1994) 

'Artists with rheumatoid arthritis create beauty amid pain'

by Alan Mozes (Personalmd.com re: Dufy, Rubens, Toulouse-Lautrec...)

'Great artists, their medical conditions, and how their work was affected' Corrine Wong (Student BMJ)

Sites about individual artists

'Paul Klee and Scleroderma' by E. Carwile LeRoy, M.D. and Richard M. Silver, M.D., Division of Rheumatology and Immunology (The Medical University of South Carolina)

Monticelli

Monet: his sight & his waterlily paintings (silcon.com)

Anna Mary Robertson aka 'Grandma Moses' : assorted sites

Renoir: Portrait Of Perseverance (arthritis.about.com)

Van Gogh: assorted sites

Circumstantial Adversity

Art in the Face of Adversity: The New Museum of Holocaust Art

Favourite Artists


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