The Connection Between Mental Illness and Artistic Creativity
In my UNV Let’s Go Arts class we are beginning to learn how to research and use the library so we can become better writers for papers such as these. For the class, we had to pick a topic and then try to write a rough outline of what we think the paper would sound and look like with quotes from articles and citations. I was having trouble trying to pick out a topic because of the many general ideas I had, mental illness and modern art, for example. I only discovered what I absolutely would love writing about through research about those few general topics. How mental illness can influence art and creativity. I love this topic because it is something I can get deep with and relate to in my personal life. Both me and my brother suffer from depression and we are both artists; I’m a visual artist and he is a piano player and singer, so this topic hit close to home for me instantly. I thoroughly enjoyed the outline creating process as it helped bring all my thoughts together for my topic. There is a romanticized stigmatism going around that if you are …show more content…
“Countless painters, composers, writers and musicians have suffered from depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, prompting people to ask the question, are artists more likely to suffer from mental illness?” (Berman) They had done research in 2012 to prove this exact question. During this study, they followed 1.2 million patients and their relatives, finding that bpd, or bipolar disorder, is more common in individuals with artistic professions including dancers, photographers and authors (Berman). Some of these neurodivergent creators include Ludwig van Beethoven, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, and Georgia O 'Keeffe. Saying that they created magnificent pieces would be an understatement, these people were creatively
In my UNV Let’s Go Arts class we are beginning to learn how to research and use the library so we can become better writers for papers such as these. For the class, we had to pick a topic and then try to write a rough outline of what we think the paper would sound and look like with quotes from articles and citations. I was having trouble trying to pick out a topic because of the many general ideas I had, mental illness and modern art, for example. I only discovered what I absolutely would love writing about through research about those few general topics. How mental illness can influence art and creativity. I love this topic because it is something I can get deep with and relate to in my personal life. Both me and my brother suffer from depression and we are both artists; I’m a visual artist and he is a piano player and singer, so this topic hit close to home for me instantly. I thoroughly enjoyed the outline creating process as it helped bring all my thoughts together for my topic. There is a romanticized stigmatism going around that if you are …show more content…
“Countless painters, composers, writers and musicians have suffered from depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, prompting people to ask the question, are artists more likely to suffer from mental illness?” (Berman) They had done research in 2012 to prove this exact question. During this study, they followed 1.2 million patients and their relatives, finding that bpd, or bipolar disorder, is more common in individuals with artistic professions including dancers, photographers and authors (Berman). Some of these neurodivergent creators include Ludwig van Beethoven, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, and Georgia O 'Keeffe. Saying that they created magnificent pieces would be an understatement, these people were creatively