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  2. The Madhouse - Wikipedia

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    He produced it between 1812 and 1819 based on a scene he had witnessed at the then-renowned Zaragoza mental asylum. [1] It depicts a mental asylum and the inhabitants in various states of madness. The creation came after a tumultuous period of Goya's life in which he suffered from serious illness and experienced hardships within his family.

  3. Tortured artist - Wikipedia

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    Van Gogh, who struggled with poverty and mental illness for most of his life, is regarded as a famous example of the tortured artist. A tortured artist is a stock character and stereotype who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art, other people, or the world in general. The trope is often associated with mental illness. [1]

  4. The Human Condition (Magritte) - Wikipedia

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    Paintings within paintings appear frequently in Magritte works. Euclidean Walks (1955) is a work perhaps most like The Human Condition. It places a canvas in front of a high window depicting the tower of a close building and a street below. In The Fair Captive (1947), there is a beach scene with an easel set up. As in the previous cases it ...

  5. Edvard Munch - Wikipedia

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    Due in part to the mental health struggles and incarceration in an institution of his sister, Laura Catherine, and in part to then-prevailing beliefs in hereditary insanity, Edvard Munch often expressed his fear that he would become insane. [10] Critics of his art also accused him of insanity, deploying this term in a purely abusive sense.

  6. Mental disorders in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Many other characters are also suffering from mental illnesses including bipolar, anxiety, PTSD, and also depression. Saint Jude, 2011 [1] novel by Dawn Wilson. Suffering from manic-depressive illness, Taylor spends her senior year of high school at a place called Saint Jude's—essentially a group home for teenagers with mental illnesses. [2]

  7. Art show, auction to benefit Mental Health Foundation ... - AOL

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    Organizers say artists will get 51% of the proceeds from the artwork that is sold, while the rest will go toward mental health programming. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 24. To learn more and ...

  8. Yard with Lunatics - Wikipedia

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    The work stands as a horrifying and imaginary vision of loneliness, fear and social alienation, a departure from the rather more superficial treatment of mental illness in the works of earlier artists such as Hogarth. John J. Ciofalo writes that "there is a virtual vacuum of unreason inhabited and realized by those confined, and most especially ...

  9. List of fictional characters with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    One of the most famous artists of the Marvel universe and is known as a brilliant sculptor. [citation needed] 1963 Dr. Curt Connors AKA Lizard: Spiderman: Marvel Comics: Limb difference. Lost his left arm and usually functions even without a prosthesis [citation needed] 1963 Professor X: X-Men: Marvel Comics: Wheelchair-bound. [220] 1963 Dr Strange