TORTURED ARTIST

The 'Tortured artist' is a stock character and stereotype, who is in constant ferment due to frustrations with art and other people. The tortured artist feels alienated and misunderstood due to what they perceive as the ignorance or neglect of others who do not understand them, and the things they feel are important. They sometimes smoke, experience sexual frustration, and appear overwhelmed by their own emotions and inner conflicts. The tortured artist is often mocked in popular culture for being attention seeking, narcissistic, unable or unwilling to make plans or just adverse to happiness and fun.

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Examples in culture

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Examples in culture

★ Schroeder_(Peanuts) of the ''Peanuts'' Gang

★ Max Minghella as Jerome Platz in 2006 movie ''Art School Confidential''

★ Keir O'Donnell as Todd Cleary in 2005 movie ''Wedding Crashers''

★ Ben Foster as Russell Corwin on TV show ''Six Feet Under''

★ Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman in 2002 movie ''Adaptation.''

★ Mark Heap as Brian Topp from the TV show ''Spaced''

★ Emma Thompson as Kay Eiffel in 2006 movie ''Stranger Than Fiction''

★ Mickey Rourke as Henry Chinaski in 1987 movie ''Barfly''

★ Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge in 1983 movie ''Tender Mercies''

See also

★ ''The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect'', a 1983 album by Todd Rundgren