Bleeding talent from every pore

On her BBC page Julia Kite gnashes her teeth at the glamorous element of angst in artwork be it written, auditory, painted or expressed.

“It seems like unless you’ve got a significant chemical imbalance you can’t tell a good story,” and realises that suffering is a lot like sex. It sells quite a bit. What she calls ‘the mystique of mental illness,’ has been phenomenally inspiring to some of the world’s greatest artists.

Sensational

As of 2005 however eBay took down any blood art sold online. It will not participate in the sale of body parts be they liquefied or otherwise.

This was more so about works of art inspired by the thinking after 9/11. The blood was meant to symbolise the “victims, violators and voyeurs observed by the impartial artist, traumatised by the passionate religious/extremist acts of violence since 9/11.”

Sensational to say the least; enough to intensify not just the media interest but the general public’s as well. Perhaps if Van Gogh had unleashed several rusty shades of copper on his easel and declared them a result of his bleeding ear, who knows. He and the rest of the art connoisseurs might just be a few millions richer.