Neuroaesthetics, Neurological Disorders and Creativity
The contemporary neurology about arts renews some fields yet opened before, like study of painted representation of neurological disorders, or diagnosis of neurological disorders of artists. But it opens also new fields as, at first, the study of how a neurological disorder can alter productivity in recognized artists and other creative people, which is a largely unexplored field.
This new neurology on arts, one of the currents of neuroesthetics, consists of the analysis of neurological and neuro-pathological processes of decay in the cognitive and creative abilities, of the clinical analysis of disease-related changes in the work : for example, Alzheimer‘disease in the case of Carolus Horn, supposed dementia in De Koonings’late paintings, impact of the subcortical infarction with right-sided paralysis in Caspar David Friedrich, unilateral left negligence after stroke in Fellini’s drawings.
Furthermore, a collaboration between clinicians and artists suffering neurological disorders begun, like in the case of the painter William Utermohlen who agreed to participate to studies on the decay of his artistic abilities during his Alzheimer’disease until his death. This collaboration between clinician and artists suffering neurological declines is a field in full expansion with the clinical study of effects of neurological deficits on artistic production. The comparison between them and the effects on people without artistic habits contributes to the knowledge of these diseases and the neurology of perception. It clearly shows also the influence of artistic and creative habits in the decrease of symptoms.
By the side of this research on cognitive deficiencies and artistic creation, neurological disorders which used to be obstacles to creation, such as epilepsy, migraine, stroke, became subjects of artistic production by the people suffering of it. In the case of epilepsy, the artist Jennifer Hall represented the imagery of hallucinations and flourishing visions she perceived during her epileptic seizures, aims also of other artists like Juliane Ahrems and Kellyann Geurts. Hall organized in the Do While Studio in Boston an exhibition about epileptic arts, called From the Storm, and exhibited in Canadian, American and Australian neurological conventions.
Visions created by the migrainous visual aura which seem to have affected Hildegard of Bingen, Chirico and Picasso, became a subject of inspiration with artistic manifestations like in UK ‘the migraine art” and the exhibition in San Francisco of this art, Mosaic vision.
This new neurology on arts, one of the currents of neuroesthetics, consists of the analysis of neurological and neuro-pathological processes of decay in the cognitive and creative abilities, of the clinical analysis of disease-related changes in the work : for example, Alzheimer‘disease in the case of Carolus Horn, supposed dementia in De Koonings’late paintings, impact of the subcortical infarction with right-sided paralysis in Caspar David Friedrich, unilateral left negligence after stroke in Fellini’s drawings.
Furthermore, a collaboration between clinicians and artists suffering neurological disorders begun, like in the case of the painter William Utermohlen who agreed to participate to studies on the decay of his artistic abilities during his Alzheimer’disease until his death. This collaboration between clinician and artists suffering neurological declines is a field in full expansion with the clinical study of effects of neurological deficits on artistic production. The comparison between them and the effects on people without artistic habits contributes to the knowledge of these diseases and the neurology of perception. It clearly shows also the influence of artistic and creative habits in the decrease of symptoms.
By the side of this research on cognitive deficiencies and artistic creation, neurological disorders which used to be obstacles to creation, such as epilepsy, migraine, stroke, became subjects of artistic production by the people suffering of it. In the case of epilepsy, the artist Jennifer Hall represented the imagery of hallucinations and flourishing visions she perceived during her epileptic seizures, aims also of other artists like Juliane Ahrems and Kellyann Geurts. Hall organized in the Do While Studio in Boston an exhibition about epileptic arts, called From the Storm, and exhibited in Canadian, American and Australian neurological conventions.
Visions created by the migrainous visual aura which seem to have affected Hildegard of Bingen, Chirico and Picasso, became a subject of inspiration with artistic manifestations like in UK ‘the migraine art” and the exhibition in San Francisco of this art, Mosaic vision.
This article aims at presenting the new relations between neurology and arts about effects of neurological diseases: stroke, epilepsy, brain trauma, Alzheimer, bipolar disorders, on creativity. The relations changed with the new collaboration of artists suffering them, and contribute to the new studies of how a neurological disorder can alter productivity in recognized artists and other creative people. But also, this new relation consists of the transformation of the traditional neurological obstacles into a subject of creativity and artistic productions.
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