Campaigning politicians talk solutions; artists talk problems.
Kelley, like most artists, had problems with critics.
Nika, as his friends call him, is Nikolai Nabokov, a once-celebrated composer (and the former husband of Natasha) who now works for Voice of America and has become to the go-to man for Russian artists having problems with American mores and laws.
The trouble is, the artist's problems began long before he was diagnosed with mental health problems.
A Freudian analysis of Leonardo's paintings of the Holy Family attempts to expose the artist's problems with father figures (Joseph is always absent, you see).
There is declamatory speechifying; there is a tied-up-neatly sentimental conclusion; there is a character, a blocked artist, whose problems with painting and women are trumped up to the brink of cliché; there's a lingering question about where the central character would find the strength to act as she does.
"all children are born as artists, the problem is to remain artists when we grow up".
"With our mission statement stemming from a Picasso quote, 'All children are artists, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up,' we implore our listeners to be adolescent and adventurous in their everyday lives," Kids said.
Janet Fish, a painter who first married and divorced an artist, then married and divorced a nonartist and currently lives with another artist, noted that "problems about being an artist are really symptomatic of other problems in the relationship.
As Picasso said, 'every child is born an artist, the problem is staying one as you grow older'.
