Why does the artist community seems to attract the mentally ill? - It's rare to see a skilled artist who's also mentally well

[Tenshi Eating A Corn Dog!]

Also, since art is a pretty solitary activity,

It doesn't even have to be. Lovecraft probably only had friends due to the people he met through his writing circles. I think drawing and painting would benefit from groups of real life people coming together for the actual process rather than just to show off in galleries. Honestly, however, I think a lot of the Internet artist types care more about the finished product and the attention that comes with it than enjoyment of the process itself.

 

[Ruined by the Rain]

I think a lot of the Internet artist types care more about the finished product and the attention that comes with it than enjoyment of the process itself.

I hate drawing but if I don't draw it I would have to pay others to do it and I don't want to do that

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

I think excess of the attention is definitely a part of it
it is very pleasant to get compliments about your art, and thats can get to people's head, especially when you spend a lot of time to create something.
it builds ego, and it takes emotional maturity to control. so it works as force multiplier, and even much more if you start drawing and posting young
i am not completely immune to it, but i would like to think i am at least resistant to it

 

[Masturbator]

the art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

The most mentally ill people aren't the most skilled. Like, all-out degenerates are almost always mediocre at best, because to them art is about inserting their fetish into it first and foremost. True artists focus on creating beauty, then apply personal touches.

 

[NoCockatrice]

1. Escapism.
2. The bar of being an "artist" today is very low, you don't have to do much like you would've needed in the old days. And no one can call your creations shit 'cause that would be hurting feeweengs, while you can consider yourself "a person of art" and pretend you're important. Personally, I wouldn't consider anyone who labels themselves as an artist an actual artist.
3. Fucked up people are often emotional. Hysterical even (as in they can't control their emotional impulses). They crave a lot of emotional outlet and attention. Art/theatre/cosplay is an easy way to express one's emotions and get an audience.
4. Fucked up people are often infantile. And art can be colorful and cartoony and furry which resonates with them.
5.

the biggest bpd artist

you develop an ego

Did Van Gogh have a big ego though? As far as I'm aware, he hated himself his entire life (and ended it himself). Partially do to his insane mother who lost a child before Vincent and was constantly telling him he'll never be as good as that dead son (even the name Vincent was supposed to be given to the deceased boy). Definitely, she wasn't the only factor that played a role in his mental state, but still worth mentioning.
Van Gogh learned art by himself and did it because he genuinely liked it (he was almost always broke). Vincent was often expressing his feelings about depressing experiences through it (the "Starry Night" is a view from a hospital he was treated in). He wasn't a scarring 13 year old, he had a lot of genuinely depressing and interesting stories to tell. I wouldn't say comparing Vincent Van Gogh to modern slop "ahmanartists" is fair. He was ill, but he didn't wallow in it and he wasn't a dick (as far as I'm informed at least).

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

The relationship between creativity and mood disorders

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Mood disorders and patterns of creativity in British writers and artists

Apologies in advance if you weren't looking for an actual answer but just wanted to bitch and moan and feel superior like a woman complaining about her coworkers.

 

[jertzog]

I feel only in in ten thousand of the faggots considering themselves "artists" are even capable of moving a normal person with at least one thing they'll produce in their lifetime.
For instance, I could fill a jar with my urine, suspend a menorah inside, and try to undignifiedly present it under the title "PISS DREIDEL", but I wouldn't be moving anyone in any meaningful way.
Exhibitionists are drawn to this because it's a way for them to make "statements" by being a braying jackass.

 

[Colon capital V]

the art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

But don't you EVER FUCKING SAY THE N WORD YOU FUCKING CHUDCEL!!!

 

[Myron]

...and people believe this unironically

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand STEM. The learning material are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of effective studying most of the courses will go over a typical students head.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

I don’t know of any community that self-polices itself properly, tbh.

 

[Foghotten]

It's always made sense to me that people far removed from sanity or common sense would attempt to express themselves in more abstract ways, as they'd eventually get tired of being "misunderstood". Art inherently fills that niche: those people get to express their piece however they wish.

Unfortunately, those pieces in question end up being weird shit nearly all the time nowadays. I blame the internet breaking and twisting millions of minds daily for that.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

In order to dedicate years of skill grinding and a lot of money to spill the contents of your head on the preferred media properly, one has to possess the ability to perceive impulses from the world around and interactions with people much stronger and be more deeply impacted, than those who don't do that.
This hypersensitivity comes with negative impacts on one's mental health. Or the other way, all I can say is, that it's somehow interconnected. And, of course, sometimes it makes them extremely easy to be offended by everything, sometimes even preemptively.

Sometimes I find artists a bit unsettling, because I can't read situations and people well and what was an ordinary interaction, where mostly only the words and the tone were important, they were watching me in much more details and depth than I could ever do.

 

[That Summer Feeling]

Most talented artists that I know about are just normal people. With like, wife and children and stuff. I'm talking about the employable ones, the ArtStation level.

Now, the ~quirky~ ones are midwits who are attracted to the hobby because it's an ego stroke, a pressure release valve for their psychoses and it's also a solitary activity.

 

[TheNazgulKing]

Being a lab technician requires a higher IQ and more technical knowledge than drawing tittyfur art for Lou Gagliardi. Of course, so does scrubbing toilets or shoveling horse shit out of stables.

 

[Lovely Kin]

The obsession over making one's creation perfect, but some of these mentally ill ones are the most creative. However what we currently have is mediocre mentally ill who just scribble and call it a day before putting it on patreon.

 

[somevan712]

Drawing is gay. Mental illness is gay. Gays gather in groups. Groups of gay, mentally ill artists form.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand STEM. The learning material are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of effective studying most of the courses will go over a typical students head.

Yeah, to trully be in STEM you gotta have at least somewhat higher than average IQ. But in the last decade or so many mids or even lows have flooded the sectors like IT and other related stuff.
It's no longer a playing field of semi-rogue semi-geniuses, it's office work for office drones.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

The arts need to start romanticizing David Lynch's philosophy that artistic greatness is in spite of suffering and mental issues and not because of it.

It's both. Most well-adjusted people don't decide to become artists. Art is a method of self-expression; normal people can typically express themselves fine in some way (in the normal ways) and don't look for alternate methods of doing so. If you feel you can't express yourself in the normalfag ways, you try to do so by playing an instrument or drawing or whatever.

Being a lab technician requires a higher IQ and more technical knowledge than drawing tittyfur art for Lou Gagliardi.

No it doesn't, especially nowadays where it's all so heavily-regulated and the math is done for you. There is a reason lab technicians get paid less than toll booth workers.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

I feel only in in ten thousand of the faggots considering themselves "artists" are even capable of moving a normal person with at least one thing they'll produce in their lifetime.
For instance, I could fill a jar with my urine, suspend a menorah inside, and try to undignifiedly present it under the title "PISS DREIDEL", but I wouldn't be moving anyone in any meaningful way.
Exhibitionists are drawn to this because it's a way for them to make "statements" by being a braying jackass.

Outrage and disgust are the easiest feelings to invoke in others, and as such I consider artists who can only do this to be intellectually lazy.