Nijinsky and the Parable of Life as a Work of Art

The celebrity of Vaclav Nijinsky has walked a parable representing the evolution of a style . He has felt on himself -in unison- the collapse of both experimentalism and vital spirit. Being a full icon of the World of Art , Nijinsky quickly experienced the sensation of a blazing apogee and a dreadful decline; his life has, indeed, emblematized an allegorical image in many ways: first of all, it appeared as the triumph of an artist from the province to international fame, and later his ruinous end; secondly, it expressed an example of a deep interpenetration between patronage of the arts and personal feelings, twisted up unto a downfall; thirdly, it produced the apex of a mental creativity and its decay, in the folds of mental schizophrenia .