Impact of Mental Illness on Creativity in Visual Art

DOI

10.2991/sschd-19.2019.13How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mental illness, Creativity, Visual Art.

Abstract

Mental illness, creativity, and visual art are often influenced by each other. Medical science proved that highly creative people are suffering from a different kind of mental illness or disorder. Mental illness and creativity is a comprehensive process and influenced by internal and external factor. The purpose of this research was to analyze the influences of the mental illness on creativity in visual art such as schizophrenia disorder, mood disorder, alcoholism, bipolar disorder, hereditary psychosis, manic depression, etc. The study investigated the mental illnesses impact on the perception of the artist and their artwork. This paper argues that what and how mental disorder are positively associated with creativity and evolutionary perspective in between madness behavior and creativity through visual art. The study aim was to bring up the latest literature as well as the epidemiologic and hypothetical argument of this subject matter.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Dhaneshwar Shah
AU  - Sunanda Rani
AU  - Meiyan Wang
AU  - Jining Dong
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - Impact of Mental Illness on Creativity in Visual Art
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 694
EP  - 698
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sschd-19.2019.13
DO  - 10.2991/sschd-19.2019.13
ID  - Shah2019/12
ER  -