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Derek Robinson's Migraine Art Concept
In the 1970s, the Migraine Art concept was developed by the late Derek Robinson (1928-2001) as the rationale for a number of public competitions in the 1980s which encouraged artists, both amateur and professional, to illustrate the pain, the visual disturbances and the effect migraine had on their lives.
Derek Robinson, 1984.
According to Derek Robinson, Migraine Art denotes the idea that techniques of pictorial representational art may provide an adequate and sometimes the best suited medium to express and communicate those experiences which occur as signs and symptoms of migraine or as reactions of the migraine sufferer to the said manifestations of the disease.
Rebecca J. Gill, Migraine Induced Art, 2003. © 2004 Rebecca J. Gill [more]
(http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/j/a/janyth/weirded.gif.html, November 6, 2003)
The term 'art' is here employed in its most inclusive sense with no implication of aesthetic evaluation. It is not intended to imply by the concept of Migraine Art that there is an art of migraineurs which is characterized by a unique nature of artistic creation determined by the causative effects of the migraine condition, because it is assumed that, in this sense, an art of migraineurs does not exist, confirming a conclusion of the painter Jean Dubuffet who stated, for different clinical fields, that "there is no art of the insane any more than the art of the dyspeptics or an art of people with knee complaints".
A Migraine Art JokeRonnie goes to her first show at an art gallery and is looking at the paintings. One is a huge canvas that has black with yellow blobs of paint splattered all over it. The next painting is a murky gray color that has drips of purple paint streaked across it. Ronnie walks over to the artist and says, "I don't understand your paintings." "I paint what I feel inside me," explains the artist. "Have you ever tried Alka-Seltzer?" (Joe Seagull, Newsgroups: alt.support.headaches.migraine, Subject: OT Humor: the art gallery, April 18, 2003) |
References
Bollig G, Undall E, Mørland T, Podoll K. Migrene og kunst. [Migraine and art. In Norwegian] Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen 2005; 125: 777-778.
Nicola U, Podoll K. L'arte emicranica come strumento di studio dell'ispirazione artistica. [Migraine Art as a tool for studying artistic inspiration. In Italian] Confinia Cephalalgica 2001; 10: 137-144.
Podoll K. Derek Robinson's audiovisual programme 'In the picture − A personal view of migraine': The cradle of the Migraine Art concept. Neurol Psychiat Brain Res 2001; 9: 17-22.
Podoll K, Robinson D. Migraine Art - The migraine experience from within. Neurol Psychiat Brain Res 2002; 10: 29-34.
Wilkinson M, Robinson D. Migraine art. Cephalalgia 1985; 5: 151-157.
Author: Klaus Podoll
Last modification of this page: Sun. Aug. 8 2004
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