{"id":23398,"date":"2022-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleksawn.bget.ru\/top-7-psihodelicheskih-proizvedenij-iskusstva\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:20:45","slug":"top-7-psychedelic-works-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukvaved.top\/en\/top-7-psihodelicheskih-proizvedenij-iskusstva\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 7 Psychedelic Artworks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes, looking at a painting or reading a book, you want to ask the author what substances they used while composing their "masterpiece." But there are true masterpieces of art inspired by hallucinations. Here's a list.<\/p>\n

<\/span>7. Harlequin Carnival, Joan Mir\u00f3<\/span><\/h2>\n

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For the Catalan artist Joan Mir\u00f3, the expression "an artist must be hungry" was not an empty phrase, but a sad reality. Experiencing financial difficulties, he often went to bed without dinner.<\/p>\n

\u00abI tried to convey the hallucinations that hunger evoked. I didn't depict what I saw in dreams, as the surrealists often did, but what hunger evoked: (it's) a form of trance.<\/em>\u00bb,\u201d Miro said about himself.<\/p>\n

These hungry hallucinations are reflected in several paintings, including "Harlequin's Carnival." The apparent disorder of random objects is in fact the result of careful composition, as Mir\u00f3's preparatory sketches demonstrate.<\/p>\n

<\/span>6. Infinity Mirror Room, Yayoi Kusama<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The works of this Japanese artist are a mixture of abstract expressionism and conceptual art, characterized by graphic, colorful and somewhat futuristic images.<\/p>\n

One of Kusama's most famous works is her mirror rooms (there are over 20 of them). Each of these rooms allows the viewer to lose their identity and sense of self in the endless repetition of the image. It's no wonder that signs hang at the entrance warning that being in the mirror room may be harmful to people with epilepsy or mental disorders.<\/p>\n

As a child, Kusama suffered physical abuse from her mother, which led to hallucinations and suicidal thoughts. She perceived patterns that moved, multiplied, and finally consumed her\u2014a process Kusama called "self-destruction." She began painting her visions, and she credited art with helping her manage her anxiety and channel intense psychological trauma.<\/p>\n

\u00abIf it weren\u2019t for art, I would have committed suicide long ago,\u00bb <\/em>the artist likes to repeat.<\/p>\n

Kusama's art is highly sought after, with her paintings selling for millions of dollars. For example, her work "White No. 28" sold for $7.1 million.<\/p>\n

<\/span>5. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens<\/span><\/h2>\n

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English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1879) experienced hypnagogic hallucinations\u2014fleeting perceptual experiences during the transition from wakefulness to sleep. He also suffered from insomnia.<\/p>\n

His characters experience similar conditions, including insomnia, hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis, and nightmares. One example of such hallucinations can be found in "A Christmas Carol," when Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by ghosts, leaving him unsure whether it's a dream or reality.<\/p>\n

<\/span>4. Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre<\/span><\/h2>\n

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In 1935, French existentialist philosopher, writer, and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre decided to embark on a special journey. He persuaded his friend, physician Daniel Lagache, to administer the psychedelic mescaline, which was then used to treat alcoholism and depression.<\/p>\n

As a result, Sartre experienced a "bad trip." He began to be haunted by bizarre, frightening crustaceans, and ordinary objects transformed into animals\u2014for example, a watch turned into an owl, and an umbrella into a vulture.<\/p>\n

Sartre's adventure ended in a mental breakdown. Afterward, the writer realized that the crabs that had pursued him symbolized his fear of loneliness.<\/p>\n

Sartre's 1938 novel Nausea contains a scene in which the protagonist dreams that he is trapped in a garden full of insects and animals walking in a crab-like fashion.<\/p>\n

<\/span>3. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift<\/span><\/h2>\n

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In the last three years of his life, Swift (1667-1745) experienced symptoms similar to those of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, including cognitive changes, memory impairment, personality changes, language disorders, and facial paralysis.<\/p>\n

Some Swift scholars believe that the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag and the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput in the novel are based on Swift's own visual hallucinations.<\/p>\n

<\/span>2. The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Anyone who has seen The Garden of Earthly Delights has probably wondered what, other than Hieronymus Bosch's ardent religious beliefs, inspired him to create such a painting.<\/p>\n

To say that Bosch's creation is bizarre is an understatement. Bizarre architecture, part floral, part stone; hybrid creatures; naked men and women performing acrobatic or sexual acts; people riding horses, camels, mules, boars, bulls, and unicorns\u2014these are just some of the surreal images in the triptych's central panel, which depicts scenes of an earthly paradise filled with lust. They precede even more horrific depictions of hell on the right panel.<\/p>\n

Roger Blench, author of "Hallucinatory Hieronymus Bosch: Charles Bonnet Syndrome?" briefly assesses the possibility that Bosch's images are linked to episodes of Charles Bonnet syndrome, also known as "hallucinations of the sane.".<\/p>\n

According to Blench, there is reason to consider the artist's works as hallucinations transferred to canvas.<\/p>\n

<\/span>1. The Scream, Edvard Munch<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Edvard Munch (1863-1944) suffered from visual and auditory hallucinations and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in 1908.<\/p>\n

This is how Munch himself explains the origin of his famous, albeit disturbing, painting, The Scream (1893):\u00abI was walking along the road with two friends. Then the sun set. The sky suddenly turned blood red, and I felt something akin to melancholy. I stopped, leaning against the railing, dead tired. Clouds of dripping, gurgling blood hung over the inky-black fjord and the town. My friends continued on. I stood there, terrified, with an open wound in my chest. An endless scream pierced nature.<\/em>\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Munch creatively transformed a visual hallucination into a work of art. This work took 18 months.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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