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During the pandemic, I started exploring more about the connection between art and mental health and went down a rabbit hole, so to speak. Art can help convey a concept in a beautifully intimate way.
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]
The Portraits of the Insane depict patients from the Paris mental hospitals La Salpêtrière and Bicêtre. [4]: 14 [3] Art historians have described the portraits as significant for their "unprecedented objective sobriety,” [5] observing that they "have a powerful realism that is entirely unaffected by romantic sentiment or artistic dramatization.” [3]
Project Semicolon – stylized as Project ; – is an American nonprofit organization known for its advocacy of mental health wellness and its focus as an anti-suicide initiative. Founded in 2013, the movement's aim is "presenting hope and love to those who are struggling with depression, suicide, addiction and self-injury". [1]
British psychotherapist Paul Newham using Expressive Therapy with a client. The expressive therapies are the use of the creative arts as a form of therapy, including the distinct disciplines expressive arts therapy and the creative arts therapies (art therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, writing therapy, poetry therapy, and psychodrama).
Emma Hauck (14 August 1878 – 1 April 1920) was a German outsider artist known for her artistic, handwritten letters to her husband while she was institutionalized in a mental hospital. Though these letters were never delivered, they have since come to be regarded as works of art due to their abstraction and repetitive content.
Kusama has continued to create art in various museums around the world, from the 1950s through the 2020s. [8] Kusama has been open about her mental health and has resided since the 1970s in a mental health facility. She says that art has become her way to express her mental problems. [9] "I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only ...
The Living Museum in Queens, New York City, United States, is an art studio dedicated to presenting the art produced by patients at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, the largest state psychiatric care institution in New York City. It is the first museum of its kind in the United States.