Changes in artistic style after minor posterior stroke

Annoni, Jean‐Marie; Devuyst, G.; Carota, Antonio; Bruggimann, Laure; Bogousslavsky, Julien

doi:10.1136/jnnp.2004.045492

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“…Some of the located articles, books and book chapters were excluded because they described the ways in which stroke affects the artistic style of visual artists (e.g. Annoni et al 2005;Bäzner & Hennerici, 2006;Bäzner & Hennerici, 2007) or the use of art assessments with stroke patients to identify perceptual or other cognitive deficits (e.g. Sandburg, Silver & Vilstrup, 1984;Silver 1975) or to identify emotional disturbances (Silver 2002).…”

Section: Art Therapy and Strokementioning

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Art therapy after stroke: Evidence and a need for further research

Reynolds

2012

The Arts in Psychotherapy

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Section: Art Therapy and Strokementioning

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Art therapy after stroke: Evidence and a need for further research

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2012

The Arts in Psychotherapy

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“…However, in painters, a special emphasis may be put on posterior circulation stroke, probably because of the common involvement of visual systems [28]. …”

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Artistic Creativity, Style and Brain Disorders

Bogousslavsky¹

2005

Eur Neurol

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The production of novel, motivated or useful material defines creativity, which appears to be one of the higher, specific, human brain functions. While creativity can express itself in virtually any domain, art might particularly well illustrate how creativity may be modulated by the normal or pathological brain. Evidence emphasizes global brain functioning in artistic creativity and output, but critical steps which link perception processing to execution of a work, such as extraction-abstraction, as well as major developments of non-esthetic values attached to art also underline complex activation and inhibition processes mainly localized in the frontal lobe. Neurological diseases in artists provide a unique opportunity to study brain-creativity relationships, in particular through the stylistic changes which may develop after brain lesion.

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“…There have been several case reports that showed how stroke influenced professional artists. 5,6 However, mood change after stroke was not essential for a change in the artistic style. Particularly, some painters had difficulty painting landscapes and large figures because the right-hemisphere stroke commonly results in visuospatial neglect.…”

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Changes in Painting Style by Poststroke Mania

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Letter to the EditorDear Sir:Post stroke neuropsychiatric syndrome is common.1 Many patients after stroke experience depression, cognitive impairment, personality change, psychosis, apathy, and anxiety. Mania can also be a consequence of stroke but is not common.2 "Mania" is described as a distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, lasting at least 1 week in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder-V.3 Mania seems to be observed more frequently with the right side brain lesions. 4 Here, we report a professional artist whose painting style dramatically changed with manic illness from a recent stroke. Informed consent for this report was obtained.A 58-year-old Korean man who had worked in Russia as a professional painter visited the emergency room due to a sudden onset of dysarthria and left side weakness, which were noted when he woke up in the morning. He did not have any other vascular risk factors except for smoking. On neurologic examination, dysarthria, left facial palsy and left hemiparesis (motor grade IV/IV) were observed. Left side sensory change and sensory extinction were noted, but prosopagnosia was not observed. With ophthalmologic examination, corrected visual acuity was 0.8/0.8 on near card test, visual field defect was not observed on manual test and achromatognosia was not noted. The brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed a territorial ischemic lesion with proximal occlusion of the inferior division of the right middle cerebral artery ( Figure 1A). Cardioembolic source was not found on the transthoracic echocardiogram, transesophageal echocardiogram and holter monitoring. An antiplatelet drug and statin were prescribed.When he visited our outpatient clinic 2 weeks after the symptom onset, although his neurological deficits were much improved, he became very erratic, aggressive, talkative, hyperenergetic, and lost the desire to sleep with an increased goal directed activities such as staying up all night and continuously drawing art pieces consisting of a human face. Furthermore, his wife noted that his style of painting was absolutely transformed. We compared the paintings he drew after his stroke with some of his paintings from Russia on his website before the stroke ( Figure 1B, C). His previous artwork showed complementary and subtle color schemes, with well-defined heads and figures using sharp lines. The paintings were ordered with an austere simplicity. On the other hands, his new artwork showed a drastic change in the artistic style. The drawings are complex, disrupted and disorganized with splattering of words and phrases (in more than one language). Use of color became broader and more overt.After starting carbamazepine 100 mg twice daily as a mood stabilizer, his mood slightly improved; however, he was still talkative, and his paintings were still awkward, complex and disorganized.Here, we reported the case of a professional painter who showed changes in his artistic style and behavior after an ischemic stroke. There have be...

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Changes in artistic style after minor posterior stroke

Cited by 54 publications

References 33 publications

Art therapy after stroke: Evidence and a need for further research

Art therapy after stroke: Evidence and a need for further research

Artistic Creativity, Style and Brain Disorders

Changes in Painting Style by Poststroke Mania

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