Langile bat gehiago

Abstract

Although we are in the twentieth century, the image of the bohemian artist is still alive. The present of this figure is not only the result of the eyes of those outside the field of art, but also of something that has been nurtured from within. This idealized artist figure remains attractive based on a double belief. On the one hand, it is thought that being an artist, is something like rejecting material needs, in order to self-realize, achieve certain individual freedom. On the other hand, it is thought that in a capitalist society, this figure, based on nonconformity and an antagonistic attitude, is able to build a separate life or place itself in a possible `'anti-world'. But this double belief is wrong. The myth of the bohemian artist is very far from the reality that the artist lives today.