[Artistic expression and Psychiatry in Greece: Prominence highlights (1950-2011)].

[Artistic expression and Psychiatry in Greece: Prominence highlights (1950-2011)]. Psychiatriki. 2018 Oct-Dec;29(4):349-358 Authors: Rossiou E, Orologas A Abstract The art of the confined began to be studied by psychiatrists in the late 19th century for diagnostic purposes, while the first studies of aesthetic interest were found in the first decades of the 20th century, when psychiatrists as the Swiss W. Morgenthaler and the Austrian H. Prinzhorn published studies on mentally ill artworks, having mainly aesthetic approach. The artworks of the mentally ill belong to the field of Art found in the international literature by the term of Art Brut. The term "Brut" was introduced in 1945 by J. Dubuffet to describe the production of art by authors who were not taught academic art, did not belong to any artistic movement and were indifferent to a potential identification with the viewer or the collector. This French painter and sculptor named Art Brut the founded movement, whose main field was the works of mental patients. Dubuffet was particularly affected, in terms of artistic expression, like so many other creators of expressionism and surrealism, by the art of the mentally ill. Regarding the Greek scene, the relationship between our country and this category of Art began in 1950, at the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica "Dromokaitio", when Professor G. Pampoukis and Dr N. Drakoulidis sent patients' works to the Exposition Internationale d'...
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