Painting psychosis: an empirical investigation of the self-portraits of Edvard Munch.
Frontiers in Psychiatry 2025 Eric C Bettelheim, Jingyi Liu, Paola Dazzan et al.
Substantial evidence demonstrates that the brain is more interested in faces than in other subjects and that self-related material, particularly self-images, have higher saliency than non-self-referential material. Studies of self-portraits have revealed correlations between stylistic elements and artists' states of mind. Edvard Munch, a founder of Expressionism and most famous for "The...