Rosa Bonheur and Franz Marc both had strong inclinations of this sort, although they gave them different expressions. For example, a man's attachment to the workplace, he writes in The Myth of Male Power , is not a sign of his greater privilege but of his obligation to perform, leading to greater stress and a shorter life. A brown wash made from soot, commonly used in the Renaissance. Absurdity, immorality and morbidity used for comic effect or to draw attention obliquely to some regrettable state of affairs that is too painful to confront directly. The Surrealists used it frequently, and Andr Breton even published an anthology of it.
Black humour raises questions about the autonomy of a work of art .
Cf autotelic . Paintings combining genre and still-life, often with a religious scene tucked into the background. Aertsen and Vel quez painted notable examples. In the later twentieth century, there are successful artists whose lifestyles are about as far from the marginal as one can get, yet their carefully cultivated cachet of Romantic genius still capitalizes on the bohemian myth. See also divine afflatus .