Self-Portrait: Between Normality and Psychosis

Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art

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Ioana Palamar¹ 

[1] Assist. Prof., ”George Enescu” National University of Arts of Iași, România.;

关键词: self-portrait;    painting;    Medieval period;    normality;    psychosis;    inner tension;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The article entitled ”Self-Portrait: Between Normality and Psychosis ” makes a comparison between specific international artists’ self-portraits (such as: Vincent van Gogh’s, Syd Barret’s, Maria Lassning’s etc.) and national artists’ self-portraits (such as: Ion Țuculescu’s, Aniela Firon’s etc.) with a proper education in the field of fine arts and specific patients’ self-portraits (diagnosed with schizophrenia and other mental disorders) with no artistic education, in order to highlight the therapeutic role of self-portrait in both cases. Regarding the first case there has been made a comparison between an interesting self-portrait belonging to the Romanian artist Ion Țuculescu called Self-portrait on yellow background and a medieval two handle cooking pot found in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen from Rotterdam which proves a natural connection of the modern period with the medieval one, asa proofthat human being’s origins cannot be denied, because they exist in our subconscious. Regarding the second case, there has also been made a comparison between a patient’s self-portrait with Paranoid Schizophrenia and the medieval iconic character Ioana d’Arc, as the patient identifies herself with this historical figure.The main purpose consisted in presenting the way a self-portrait betrays the existence of specific moral disorders through the elements ofvisual language, like a mirror which reflects a painter’s unseen reality.

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