Finding Optimism » adolf wolfli http://www.findingoptimism.com/blog A Positive Approach to Mental Health Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:14:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Art by the Mentally Ill http://www.findingoptimism.com/blog/reviews/art-by-the-famous-mentally-ill/ http://www.findingoptimism.com/blog/reviews/art-by-the-famous-mentally-ill/#comments Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:10:35 +0000 james http://www.findingoptimism.com/reviews/art-by-the-famous-mentally-ill/ This is a selection of art, from artists who happen to be famous and have a mental illness. I’ve selected the works based on my own taste, rather than what is most well-known.

I think you’ll agree that you can be mentally ill and fabulously talented at the same time.

Picasso's Weeping Woman
Pablo Picasso
Weeping Woman, 1937
(Schizophrenia)

Friedrich's Cloister Graveyard in the Snow
Caspar David Friedrich
Cloister Graveyard in the Snow, 1810
Destroyed during WWII
(Clinical Depression)


Jackson Pollock
Blue (Moby Dick), c. 1943
(Bipolar disorder)


Adolf Wolfli
Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910
(Schizophrenia)


Edward Dayes
The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1798
(Bipolar disorder)


Edvard Munch
Evening on Karl Johan, 1892
(Bipolar disorder)


Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
La Toilette, 1896
(Clinical Depression)


Claude Monet
Le dejeuner (The Lunch), 1873
(Clinical Depression)


Vincent Van Gogh
Bench in a Wood, 1882
(Bipolar disorder)


Mark Rothko
Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, 1944
(Bipolar disorder)


Claude Monet
Waterlillies, 1907
(Clinical Depression)


Pablo Picasso
Figures on a Beach, 1931
(Schizophrenia)

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