Even in the pantheon of troubled artists, poets tend to be perceived as singularly despairing and subject to bad ends.
The narrator, Leverett, is a lawyer from the South, but the story is primarily told through the recollections of its protagonist, a troubled artist named Cass.
In the black-and-white short The Image (1969), he played a ghostly boy who emerges from a troubled artist's painting to haunt him.
The other troubled artist was said to have "sinned against his talent."
But it's worth seeing, if only to reacquaint yourself with the talents of this charismatic but troubled artist.
One of his first subjects, a postal worker named Joseph Roulin, became a deeply important friend to the lonely and troubled artist.
Allan later recalled his experiences with Chaino: "He was a troubled artist, but it was what made him a great artist.
The brilliant and troubled artist won five awards in 2008, including Record and Song of the Year for "Rehab."
A troubled artist and a grief-stricken woman are brought together by her 11-year-old daughter.
Shannon, accompanied by her new boyfriend - Ian Warfield, a brilliant but troubled artist - obligingly agrees to help out.