The Power of Art

‘The Kiss’ by Klimt is a masterpiece that survived Hitler and his master parasites that looted art all over the world. Many artists, suffered, and suffer from mental illness. If Hitler had won the war there would be a shortage of artists, and art, that the War Parasites titled “degenerate art”.

My late sister, Christine Rosamond Benton, was a world famous artist that suffered from mental illness.

Jon

Scientists have long studied the link between creativity and mental illness, and the lines between the two are often blurred. Studies suggest that creative people often share more personality traits with the mentally ill than “normal” people in less creative pursuits. One Stanford University study compared patients with bipolar disorder with a group of healthy people. They found that graduate students in creative disciplines shared more personality traits with the bipolar patients than with their healthy but less creative peers, according to…