Although I risk impinging on the territory of fellow Big Think blogger Marina Adshade of Dollars and Sex, I can’t help but comment on a recent report in The Guardian titled “When art breeds success in the bedroom: Does success as an artist bring you more sexual conquests? Well, yes and no, say researchers.” Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and chief organizer of the humorous and thought-provoking Ig Nobel prize, stumbled across an article in the Frontiers of Psychology titled “Status and Mating Success Amongst Visual Artists” written by UK researchers Helen Clegg, Daniel Nettle, and Dorothy Miell in which the trio argue that successful male artists have a lot of sex, whereas less successful male artists have less. When you talk about female artists, however, success means pretty much nothing at all when it came to their sex life. At the risk of going against their findings (and of sounding like Carrie from Sex and the City), is really true that great male artists have greater sex? Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Do Great Artists Have More Sex?"
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Sorry for any accidental repeats.
Clearly Klimt's art didn't suffer from his endless chasing of skirt. His portraits of women from great families were totally gorgeous at the time, and are still admired now.
Did he had more sexual adventures that any other unmarried man in Vienna? Probably, but at what cost? His reputation as the Rasputin of the art studio meant that no male patron would leave his wife alone in Klimt's presence, even when the artist was doing the portrait. And his fellow artists looked after their own wives, when Klimt was visiting
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