What is the relationship between controversy and success?
Why are so many of the world’s great artists vilified and sniped at? It seems that when anyone sticks his head above the parapet, others will try to shoot it off.
It has been said that you only know you are making an impact on the world when someone is having a go at you and it does seem sometimes as if the more positive and noble your impact, the more snipers and vipers will come slithering towards you through the undergrowth.
And those very snipers are always people who can muster no impact upon the world, except to lay snares in an effort to bring down its true giants.
As more and more people are now collecting Ted Stourton's work, I thought that collectors and fans of Ted Stourton alike might find of interest an article by the newspaper baron John Mappin.
Stourton’s friend and mentor and “King of Camelot,” Mappin gives you his take on the role of controversy in the role of art.
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