6/20/2023 0 Comments Sarat chandra srikantaAnd, in Rilke’s view the city of Paris was not the belle époque, capital steeped in luxury and eroticism but, it was indeed a city of abysmal, dehumanizing misery, of the faceless and the dispossessed, and of the aged, sick, and dying. Accordingly, his world-view became uniquely skewed. Rainer Rilke said one cannot be a good poet unless one loves poverty, indifference and wretchedness. Who can forget Van Gogh who was driven to insanity by punishing poverty, cruel neglect and suffocating loneliness? Somehow, a view has gained ground that the artist is given to sense more keenly than others only while placed in the cauldron of poverty, prison, or illness. In some cases, the artist might seek it, because poverty is the great reality but, in most other cases poverty is the only reality that artist is familiar with. There appears to be a stubborn bond between art, artists and poverty. He also referred to the colossus of Indian cinema, Satyajit Ray and, his Apu trilogy. He said, “I find nothing wrong in the approach”. One of my friends wrote lucidly about poverty displayed in arts and cinema.
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