Migraine and Visual Arts
| Author: Klaus Podoll | 24. March 2005 |
| Edited by: Klaus Podoll |
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
Georgia O'Keeffe, Special Drawing No. 9, 1915. (see here) © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007
"Georgia O'Keeffe once used a headache as inspiration. O'Keeffe wrote, 'Drawing No. 9 is the drawing of a headache. It was a very bad headache. Well, I had the headache, why not do something with it?'"
(Cited from Meg Bartow, Pain for All to See, 1999. © Copyright 1999 Endeavors magazine)
Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Revised and updated edition
(October 1, 1997). © 2004 Washington Square Press, New York, NY (see here)
"Lisle... reported that Georgia O'Keeffe... had visualized the images of some of her abstract paintings during migraine attacks."
(Cited from Podoll and Robinson, Visual migraine aura as source of artistic inspiration in professional painters, Neurol Psychiat Brain Res 2001; 9: 81)
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.
Lisle L. Portrait of an artist: A biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Seaview Books, New York, 1980.
O'Keeffe G. Some Memories of Drawings. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1988.
Podoll K, Robinson D. Visual migraine aura as source of artistic inspiration in professional painters. Neurol Psychiat Brain Res 2001; 9: 81-94.
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