The heroic image of Beethoven as one who had overcome every possible personal and artistic difficulty to achieve the highest aims of the art assumed well-nigh traumatic proportions among 19th-century musicians.
(Is that "e" meant to be a Liverpudlian pronunciation?) This bum note proved symptomatic of a deeper issue which, I think, is to do with the artistic difficulty of inhabiting and portraying Lennon's deep consciousness.
The poem's focus on aging and death connects to the movie's exploration of artistic difficulty.
Philosopher Stephen Mulhall has remarked that the four Alien films represent an artistic rendering of the difficulties faced by the woman's "voice" to have itself heard in a masculinist society, as Ripley continually encounters males who try to silence her and to force her to submit to their desires.
The performance is scored by judges on the basis of artistic impression and technical difficulty.
As the saying goes, the organization fell apart gradually, then all at once — Fred Cohn's fine piece in Opera News, from January of 2012, laid out the company's long history of artistic triumph and financial difficulty, and virtually predicted its end.
As the saying goes, the organization fell apart gradually, then all at once—Fred Cohn's fine piece in Opera News, from January of 2012, laid out the company's long history of artistic triumph and financial difficulty, and virtually predicted its end.
Maybe this, as much as an appetite for power, explains the difficulty some artistic directors have letting go of a permanent base (remember the protracted hand-over period between Max Stafford-Clark and Stephen Daldry at the Royal Court in 1993?) But artistic directors - even the great ones - run the risk of stifling the thing they love if they stay in the same place for too long.
Ed Hawkins, a teacher and librarian in Sydney, Australia, wrote to us praising Weschler's Profile as "a tremendously witty piece about the difficulty of artistic expression and an inspired piece of ventriloquism, given that a large portion of the piece is Salzman talking, right off the page".
Surrealist, Romantic, official artist in both world wars, photographer and writer (and sometime art critic), Paul Nash was the greatest English modernist, whose art was a synthesis both of artistic conflict and personal difficulty, and borne out of the horrors of the century itself, with its shell-cratered landscapes and acres of twisted airplane wreckage, seen under a gibbous moon.
