But Elkins also heard from people who cried because the paintings were so beautiful that they could hardly bear it they were moved by a positive emotional response to extraordinary human creations. She had recently made a painting of their bed, empty and unmade, and one day when the professor was alone in the house, he looked at the painting and thought about what it meant, and he began to cry. Elkins heard from an English professor whose wife had had an affair.
Sometimes they have painful associations. Sometimes the paintings depict awful events that might make you cry if you saw them in real life, such as the death of a child. It’s by the art critic James Elkins and it’s all about paintings that make people cry. One of my favorite books is Pictures and Tears. Weddings and funerals the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.Ĭrying is mysterious. You might cry on the worst day of your life and on the best. And I sniffled along with him, though it’s hard to put into words precisely what was squeezing the tears from us.Ĭrying is also triggered by opposites. I have a friend who sees himself as a bit of a tough guy, but I watched him tear up at a sappy commercial made for the Olympics about how our mothers help us when we fall down. Weddings and funerals the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Have you seen the videos of fangirls in the sixties in the presence of the Beatles? They positively shriek.Ĭrying is also triggered by opposites. But, weirdly, we also scream for the opposite of pain-intense pleasure, joyous surprise, great excitement.
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