Art is all around us; it’s in music, movies, paintings. It’s a way to communicate with the audience in a deeper level nonverbally. Art has evolved over the years and it encourages us to express ourselves individually. In the movie, Wasteland, by Vik Muniz, is about an artist who captured the lives of Rio de Janeiro. Psychiatric Tales, graphic novel, by Darryl Cunningham, is eleven stories about mental illness. Both of the authors disclose and engage the audience through their personal experience and interests. Vik, Muniz, who travels to Rio de Janeiro (the biggest landfill) to create art and give its profit back to the community. In the movie, Sebastian Carlos Dos Santos and Jardim Gramacho works to together by recycling these materials and …show more content…
Cunningham is upfront about how he began his journey to write this novel, help other people, and send a bigger message to his audience. Throughout the graphic novel, Cunningham tries to teach the different types of mental illness with examples and how crucial it is to get help. In his own way, he’s speaking on behalf of everyone with a mental illness that we should take it seriously, get people treated, and change how we perceive people. People with mental illness get misjudged all the time and it’s hard on this society. Society tells people with mental illness are trying to getting attention or tell them to move on/you’ll get better soon. I saw this post recently on Humans of New York, where a woman who was severely depressed, and she tried to get help. The places that she went to said that it doesn’t cover in her insurance. It says a lot about society and how our health system is caring more about money than someone asking for help. In some cultures, there’s gaps on the topics that you can talk about. Mental illness such as depression is one of things that you have to hide and hope that it goes away. This graphic novel made me think about my depression and get a glimpse of what others with mental illness go through on a daily basis. Some are so severe that you can’t survive without help of others on simple daily …show more content…
It supplies the reader with full insight and allows the reader to wander off into their thoughts (something personal), which enriches the information more. Not only is it providing information but allowing the reader connect with the piece making it universal. Readers want to be engaged not given the lecture also they’re highly likely not going to remember. Engagement and disclosure both release aesthetic emotion. In the Wasteland pieces, it’s semi-mimetic. Vik Muniz captured the image of the woman with the pot of recyclable items but symbolically. Without knowing the background context of each artwork, it wouldn’t be as much powerful. Bay Area is a diverse area, where we have dominant culture in somewhat ways. We learn about these pieces by connecting it to our lives, contexts from our study, and society. In some ways we’re have advantage because we can learn about these cultures by talking to others, searching the Internet, or travel. We learn through art, social media, books, etc. There’s various events that engages the audience with different
The short story “Virgo” in Jess Walter’s book We Live in Water is set in modern times which gives it a familiarity for the audience. For something that maybe unfamiliar is that he creates the protagonist to have a psychological problem. The author uses mental illness as an important part in his story, because the story is about the protagonists failing psychological health. This was caused from his parent’s lack of knowledge about mental disorders and his school’s fault for not educating him or his parents about mental illnesses. The protagonist has issues with his social skills, which are caused by the lack of treatment that he has never received from his schools and parents, then as a result attempts to commit suicide at the end of the story.
Art Spiegelman, the son of Holocaust survivors, is best known for authoring of the graphic novel Maus. In Spiegelman's Maus, he correlates the main characters to his father, mother, and deceased brother. This paper will analyze Spiegelman's motifs, symbolisms and overall motivation for such a work as Maus. Notably, experiences shape people mentally, emotionally, and physically, which then leads them to find coping mechanisms, whether consciously or subconsciously. Anja Spiegelman, the author's mother, sought release from her tormented memories of the Holocaust through suicide, which left Vladeck, the author's father, to bare the memories himself. Vladeck, who himself is a writer, battles through this tragedy by drawing for his son’s graphic
Throughout one’s life, he or she will encounter an opportunity that will likely impact his or her perspective on a given situation. In Waste Land, Vik Muniz embraced the opportunity to travel to Jardim Gramacho in Brazil in hopes of making a difference with the pickers by incorporating the pickers as assistants for the art projects. While at the landfill in Rio de Janeiro, he experiences the life of the pickers which helps him to create the art that will transform the lives of the workers; these experiences allow Muniz to develop as a person (Walker). Vik Muniz’s perspective regarding the landfill and the pickers evolved from expressing pity to embracing the pickers as a group of friends.
In the 1950’s, it was common so see people with frightened, uneasy, rejecting, and even arrogant attitudes towards people with mental illnesses. They considered those who were mentally ill as psychotic, violent and frightening. In the today, people are more accepting and understanding when it comes to mental illness, but some people are still ignorant with their responses, just like back then. In the 1950’s mental health treatment was typically provided in large state hospitals and other intuitions. Back then, topics like mental health were kept hush hush; people much rather putting those who were mentally in away in a state facility where someone else could monitor them. Today, people are more understanding.
“HE’S GOT THE WORLD ON TWO STRINGS”(pg21). Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers go through a lot since Steve met Nathaniel a homeless man whole plays the violin in downtown Los Angeles. Nathaniel is a homeless man who has paranoid schizophrenia travels downtown Los Angeles pushing his cart with his violin in it. Steve is a writer works for the Los Angeles Times and is always looking for a story for he can write for his column. Both Nathaniel and Steve create a friendship even though with all the challenges but in the book The Soloist it shows how they created a friendship. Even though in The Soloist they talk about how mental illness is a choice, force medication to treat the illness, and the way people treat you.
There are so many types of mental illnesses that affect people every day. When some people think of mental illnesses they think of the ones that would cause people to have physical symptoms as well, but that’s untrue, there are many more that you would never know anyone has if you were to see them on the street. As defined by the 2008 encyclopedia “a mental illness is any disease of the mind or brain that seriously affects a person’s ability or behavior. Symptoms of a mental illness may include extreme moods, such as excessive sadness or anxiety, or a decreased ability to think clearly or remember well.” A mentally ill person has severe symptoms that damage the person’s ability to function in everyday activities and situations. Every nation and every economic level can be affected by a mental illness. In the United States alone about 3% of the population has severe mental illness and to add to that number about 40% of people will experience a type of mental illness at least once in their lives. Some cases of mental illnesses can go away on their own, but some cases are so severe that they require professional treatment. There is so much more available to help people recover from their symptoms than in the past.
Released in 1996, Sling Blade is a movie that focuses on mental illness. The movies follows the main character, Karl as he is released from a mental hospital. Karl was first admitted to the mental hospital because she killed his mother and her significant other when he was very young. He spent his whole life at the mental hospital. Years later, the mental hospital decided that he was cured and he was free to leave. After Karl is released he is given a job and a place to stay. He also befriends a young boy named Frank. Frank and Karl share a special relationship. Frank’s mother, Linda allows Karl to stay in her garage. At Frank’s home, his mother’s abusive boyfriend, Doyle also lives with them. Doyle is abusive to everyone in the household
Frank Coraci’s, also known for his movies Zookeeper and Click, 1998 film, The Waterboy, stars Adam Sadler who plays the main character Bobby Boucher who suffers from a mental disorder. Bobby is an outcast due to his disability and I constantly picked on and taken advantage of by everyone in his life. This includes his mother, coaches, teachers, and his peers. This occurs up until and even after he discovers his true calling as a linebacker. He leads his team to many victories after not winning game in over 40 consecutive games and becomes loved by his whole school. Many people find this movie to be funny or even amusing, but I do due to its type of humor, the way it mocks child abuse and mental illness, and its inaccuracies.
Redfield Jamison explores the compelling connection between mental disorders and artistic creativity. Artists have long been considered different from the general population, and one often hears tales of authors, painters, and composers who both struggle with and are inspired by their "madness". Jamison's text explores these stereotypes in a medical context, attributing some artists' irrational behaviors to mental disorders, particularly manic-depressive illness. In order to establish this link, Jamison presents an impressive collection of artists who have suffered from mental illness, whether diagnosed correctly during their lifetime or discovered in hindsight. Well organized and interesting, Jamison provides an ideal introduction to this still
There are many movies that portray mental and psychological disorders, from these I chose the award winning movie: Rain Man. Rain Man was released on December 14, 1988. In the beginning of this movie, a car dealer, Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), learns that his father has died and returns home to Cincinnati to attend his funeral. Charlie and his father had a falling out with each other starting when Charlie was sixteen years old and decided to steal his father’s car for a victory lap around town. His father reported the car stolen, resulting in Charlie being arrested. Charlie’s friends got off with a warning, however Charlie’s father decided to leave his son in jail for two days before he got him out. Charlie’s mother died when he was two years
Entertaining Angels The Dorothy Day Story Social problem analysis Mental Illness was a very prominent social problem in the movie Entertaining Angels. Although at times it was not named or specified, it was always an underlining issue to the homeless in this documentation. History has shown mental illness as an issue to the homeless but not necessarily a cause to it; today’s research shows otherwise. Mental illness shows more of a cause of homelessness in research conducted today.
Girl, Interrupted (Mangold, 1999) is a movie which walks us through the conditions of various mental illnesses, their impacts on their victims and those around them, and effective treatment methods. The movie takes a more cognitive-behavioral perspective to explain various aspects and types of mental illnesses. Lisa Rowe is one of the characters in Girl, Interrupted, who is diagnosed with a particular type of mental condition. Lisa was diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder. According to DSM-IV, this condition is a pattern of the violation of the rights of other people and disregarding them. Individuals with this type of mental illness, otherwise known as sociopaths, do not conform to the social norms regarding practicing lawful behaviors (Derefinko & Widiger, 2016). They undertake activities which warrant their arrest, like harming other people or property.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about one in four American adults suffer from a mental disorder. This means that 57.7 out of 217.8 million people over the age of 18 are ill; never mind that mental illnesses are the leading cause of disability in Canada and the United States. Holden Caulfield, the controversial main character of J.D Salinger’s novel Catcher in the Rye, spends much of the book wandering through the streets of New York City. Kicked out of boarding school for the umpteenth time, he does many odd things: he calls a prostitute, tries to befriend a taxi driver, drinks with middle aged women, and sneaks into his own house in the middle of the night. While many of these things seem outré, some may even go as far as to say that he is mentally disturbed. From a psychiatric standpoint, main character Holden Caulfield exhibits the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder (manic depression), and psychosis throughout the infamous novel Catcher in the Rye.
Author Jerry Frank explains how art not only captures a beautiful scene, but informs the public on what is considered beautiful.