L'art et la science sont-elles incompatibles?

0:00) I dance the black swan for you. (0:06) Leave me alone! (0:10) Slow motion, washed colors, twisted structures and some other are part of the rhetorical resources (0:17) commonly used by filmmakers, writers, painters and artists in general to express what it might (0:23) feel like to suffer of a mental disorder. But in art it is not only intended to (0:29) portray the other's illness, but also the own.

(0:34) Hi guys, I'm Carlos and today we're going to take a look on how can art and mental illness (0:39) be related. Please subscribe if you like to keep watching this and if you'd like to share something, (0:46) let me know at the comments below. (0:51) In an attempt to express what he was feeling in an episode of Shattered Nerves, (0:55) Edvard Munch created The Scream, one of the most important pictures to come out of the (1:01) history of expressionism and which he described in his diary like this.

(1:25) It seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds (1:30) as actual blood. The color shaked.

This became the scream. (1:38) Both film and literature have been affected by this issue too. (1:44) Near to the mid 20th century, the writer Virginia Woolf was struggling with a severe depression that (1:50) led her to commit suicide.

The film The Hours centers on Woolf's efforts to finish her novel, (1:57) Mrs. Dalloway, while battling with mental illness. The real Woolf suffered from an (2:11) affective disorder which modern critics now recognize as bipolar disorder. (2:15) If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, (2:22) in the deep dark, and that only I can know.

In the film, the other two main characters are (2:27) also dealing with this feeling transmitted by Virginia as she writes the plot and this (2:32) is beautifully portrayed through visual metaphors. Mental disorders are often entitled of stimulating, (2:48) creative expression by leading to surreal or oneiric images, but there are no relations (2:54) between mental illness and art. If the patient is gifted artistically, it can help, but it isn't (3:01) always the only way it is portrayed on the big screen.

Mentally ill people are often wrongly (3:08) portrayed as violent and that perpetuates the myths about all the majority of patients being (3:13) violent. In The Science of Lambs, for example, we have the portrayal of an unstable man who (3:20) is extremely violent. In Psycho you have the sense of violence too.

There is also danger (3:34) and violence in Halloween where the man escapes from an asylum. The National Institute of Mental (3:42) Health in its statement on schizophrenia notes that most violent crimes are not committed by (3:48) persons with schizophrenia and most persons with schizophrenia do not commit violent crimes. (3:57) Nevertheless, art remained as a good medium of expression for a patient with lack of expressive (4:02) communicative language, for what painting, for example, is highly recommended as part of a (4:08) treatment.

Van Gogh, to mention one, was diagnosed as manic-depressive and had most of his more (4:15) valuable pieces made while he was interned at the St. Paul Asylum. During his stay, Van Gogh (4:22) experienced periods of illness when he could not paint. When he was able to resume, painting (4:30) provided solace, leading him to create a collection

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