When the Artist Becomes the Art
We like to think we can separate the art from the artist, but can we, really?
Art is born from the same place as sin. It mainly emerges from conflict: between what is felt and what is permitted, between the self that is lived and the self that must be hidden. No figure embodies this tension more vividly than Oscar Wilde: a man who transformed his own contradictions into style, wit, and devastating clarity. His novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is not merely a tale of aesthetic decadence but the battleground on which this question is fought.
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