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Yehvon
04-14-2009, 03:06 PM
I know It exsists but I dont have any leads to where to look. I am actually combining what I know from my area of studies (psychology major) and what I am doing as an interest (art classes, aka fillers for credit hours).

So its come down to this:

In my art history class we have finished up post-modernism and now it is time for the big ass 10pg (you get the idea) presentation where we must compare two artists/pieces/periods/movements and debate about it. Basically it is a research paper but since its art we can either paint it, power point it, or write it.

I decided to pick something from psychology because as we got into the late 19th century and early 20th century I began to see that art was...different. Mood and expression became big factors and in art, mood usually means depression lol. As we hit the '60s with pop art it got all psychodelic and thats where the research into schizophrenic art came in. I remember an artist mentioned in my adnormal pysch book but cant recall a name.


If you had to bet money on it, what would be closely related to schizophrenia or who would you expect would express those same feelings?

((schizophrenic artists tend to be more intellectual and imaginative (lol?) in their art where as artists who are/were depressed/bi polar showed more feeling, expression and moodiness)) <---obviously being a research paper I need to compare and contrast. here is a valid contrast. Now i need a comparison lol


Im kinda thinking about looking at surreallism, expressionism, or maybe someone like Van Gogh (he was know to suffer from major depression and considered to be border-line bi polar or even schizophrenic with his bizzare behaivor)

Gorvena
04-14-2009, 03:24 PM
Magritte had issues that led to his surrealistic style. And VG is a good choice.

Yichimet
04-14-2009, 03:33 PM
Along with folks' suggestions here, go to your university's library, too--the reference librarians there are paid to help you do this kind of research.

Raziel
04-14-2009, 03:58 PM
You ever see that research done with the artist where they gave the guy PCP and told him to draw a portrait at different integrals pre- and post-dose?

crazy shit.

Yehvon
04-16-2009, 11:15 AM
Along with folks' suggestions here, go to your university's library, too--the reference librarians there are paid to help you do this kind of research.

duh, but I thought i'd get some feedback from you smart kind folk :P



I found an artist named Louis Wain the other night. He was said to have been dignosed with Schizophrenia at the age of ~56 but that seems bizarre. Then again, this was early 20th century, 1916 i think. Well, when he was inside the crazy house and even before he always did drawings of his cat, peter. But as he got crazier and crazier, so did his art. But I dont know If ill use him and compare him to someone from a period, like VG.

I found another as well, but no name. He had more of what i needed, less bizarre and more intellectual/abstract/imaginative which I can compare/contrast with an artist who expresses simular techniques or even related disorder in his art (major depression or bi polar).

Thats what I am trying to do. I know as early as cubism and as late as post-modernism artists were putting alot of feeling and mood into their abstract or surreal art. Schizophrenics do too and thats where I am stuck. If schizo bob did this and Mr. X from the [name here] period seemed to express his feelings onto the canvas ((and they relate in some way)) then what could be compared and contrasted between the two pieces and artists? could they share a relation in some way?

^just some of the questions I want to try and answer in the paper

Yichimet
04-16-2009, 12:22 PM
Hey, you'd be surprised by the number of people who go "librarians? Why would I ask them?"

Xiphus
04-16-2009, 12:45 PM
I don't know man, but I will obviously go to the library for information about these kind of things. I doubt that you are going to have alot of art experts in this forums. At most, it's only one, and that's pretty unlikely by my reckoning.

Learn to love your library. I know I love mine. Saved me from my lab reports and essays many times.