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The Human Condition. The Human Condition (La condition humaine) is the title of four paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. One was completed in 1933 and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. [1] Another one was completed in 1935 and is part of the Simon Spierer Collection in Geneva, Switzerland. [2]
Monomaniac of Envy. Monomaniac of Envy (Monomane de l’envie), [1]: 4 also known by the name of Hyena of Salpêtrière,[2] Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy,[2] and Manic Envy,[3] is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Romantic artist Théodore Géricault. Painted as part of his series of ten portraits on the mentally ill ...
The Madhouse (Spanish: Casa de locos) or Asylum (Spanish: Manicomio) is an oil on panel painting by Francisco Goya. 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.
For many people, creativity serves to overcome psychic crises, traumatic events and depression. [ 62][page needed] Creativity can also have an incredible impact on mental health and well-being by not only helping people find meaning and significance, but providing an increased sense of purpose.
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.
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 73.7 cm × 92.1 cm (29.01 in × 36.26 in) Location. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Accession. 472.1941. The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889. It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de ...
prinzhorn.ukl-hd.de. Location of Prinzhorn Collection. [edit on Wikidata] The Prinzhorn Collection is a German collection of art made by mental health patients, housed at the Heidelberg University Hospital. [1] The collection comprises over 20,000 works, including works by Emma Hauck, Agnes Richter and August Natterer. [1][2][3]
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of ...