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Migraine and Painting
Richard Benbrook, Art Attack, mixed media, 2002. © 2005 Richard Benbrook
Not everything which looks like a migraine aura - e.g. Pablo Picasso's Cubist paintings - actually must have been inspired by a migraine aura. Considering the neurological evidence available for painters from the history of art, a diagnosis of migraine is likely in some cases (for example Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico, who founded the metaphysical school) and doubtful in others (like the Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh). Luckily for reseachers of Migraine Art, there exists a considerable number of painters, sculptors and film-makers with a self-reported diagnosis of migraine, but the best data can be derived from the study of contemporary visual artists with a definite (or excluded) diagnosis of migraine, as established by their responses to a standardized Migraine Questionnaire (Tom et al., 1994).
Doubtful migraineurs
Possible migraineurs
Likely migraineurs
Self-reported migraineurs
Definite migraineurs
Non-sufferers
Doubtful migraineurs:
Joseph Mallord William Turner? [PENDING]
Georges Seurat? [PENDING]
Possible migraineurs
Natalya Andreeva
Kelly Campbell
Brenden Clenaghen
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Peni Hall
Peggy Hoffman
Juha
J. Pelletier
Talloula
Gabhor Utomo
Melanie Van Winkle
Gyula Várnai
Phil Whitehouse (a.k.a. Dill the Devil)
Likely migraineurs:
Patient of Walther Morgenthaler
Alberto Savinio [PENDING]
Self-reported migraineurs:
Maura Hallowell
William Harper
Peg Lattinville
Sue Macarthur
Serena Morrow
Rachel
Tami C. Ryan
Marlene Shuman
Definite migraineurs:
Dario Arcidiacono
Lisa Luree
Sally Trueman
Non-sufferers:
Mary Nell Jackson
References
Cadenhead KA. The art of migraine: An exploration of the alchemy of migraine headaches on the art and lives of artists/migraineurs. Thesis, Boston University School of Education, Boston 1985.
Chatterjee A. The neuropsychology of visual artistic expression. Neuropsychologia 2004: 42: 1568-1583.
Nicola U, Podoll K. L'aura di Giorgio de Chirico. Arte emicranica e pittura metafisica. Mimesis, Milano 2003.
Podoll K, Robinson D. Visual migraine aura as source of artistic inspiration in professional painters. Neurol Psychiat Brain Res 2001; 9: 81-93.
Podoll K, Robinson D, Nicola U. L'ipotesi di un'origine emicranica della pittura di Picasso: una rassegna critica. [The migraine hypothesis on Picasso's paintings: a critical reappraisal. In Italian.] Confinia Cephalalgica 2003; 12: 11-23.
Tom T, Brody M, Valabhji A, Turner L, Molgaard C, Rothrock J. Validation of a new instrument for determining migraine prevalence: the UCSD Migraine Questionnaire. Neurology 1994; 44: 925-928.
Author: Klaus Podoll
Last modification of this page: May 03, 2006
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