Imposter syndrome or the autodidact complex in the artist-painter Tahar Ben Jelloun.

Abstract

The autodidact complex often persists in the artist who composes his life in a skin that of his artistic creation. The pictorial sensitivity of Tahar Ben Jelloun perfectly illustrates the case of the one invaded by doubt. She has already experienced this penalizing feeling of inferiority with regard to his expression which also refers us to contemporary abstract art. So what to do? Stay in the shadows and let himself be taken by this feeling of impostor ship which inevitably leads to failure? The perseverance of our writer is stronger than the judgments which seek to destroy his artistic expression. This study, intended to be a methodological approach, aims to clarify this phenomenon and artistic and social through the case of Tahar Ben Jelloune, relying on his work Poèmes Peintures. To successfully complete our contribution, we have chosen, firstly, to focus our attention on the particularity of contemporary abstract painting and, secondly, to focus on the notion of imposture, not only as a lasting feeling that marks the life of our writer but as an aesthetic that internalizes sensitivity. Our interest will focus, thirdly, on the approaches, both discursive (the word as a link between oneself and others) and institutional (galleries) followed by our self-taught painter to avoid this feeling of strangeness, to feel recognized and consequently to appropriate a creative identity.