Review article
https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.20.1.8
NEUROSCIENCE AND ART
Konstantinos Tsamakis
orcid.org/0000-0002-0063-8413
; Second Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, ‘Attikon’ University Hospital, Athens, Greece; King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK; Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education, St George’s, University of London, London, UK
Ioannis Karakis
; Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract
The objective of this article is to highlight the bidirectional relationship between neuroscience and art in the life and times of the most preeminent sculptor in modern Greek history, Yannoulis Chalepas. Analysis of biographical sources and testimonies on the life and works of Yannoulis Chalepas was performed. Findings are discussed in relation to the neuropsychiatric maladies that he faced in his lifespan and their impact on his art. Yannoulis Chalepas’ life and art are trichotomized in a charismatic, premorbid era (1851-1877), a prolonged, medieval, morbid period (1878-1917), and a transfigurative, post morbid era (1918-1938). The amalgamate of medical evidence suggests that Yannoulis Chalepas suffered from schizophrenia. That was reflected in his art through two distinct periods of artistic productivity and stylistic creativity. The bidirectional relationship between neuroscience and art in the history of humanity is also exemplified in the legacy of Yannoulis Chalepas. The borderland of artistic ingenuity with aberrant behavior, the misconceptions of neurocognitive disorders with psychosis along with their associated social stigma, the effect of artistic expression in the manifestation of psychiatric disease, as well as its healing and often transformative power are concepts that still tantalize equally scientists and artists around the globe.
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Publication date:
28.7.2022.
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