![Life-On-The-Lines,-Mental-Health,-Stigma,-TTC,-art,-awareness,-artists,-mental-illness,-photography,-images,-Jessica-Okonski](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/03/Life-On-The-Lines-Mental-Health-Stigma-TTC-art-awareness-artists-mental-illness-photography-images-Jessica-Okonski-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Life On The Line, a non-profit art project organized by Twentytwenty Arts, featured prints of original artworks by 20 local artists displayed inside subway trains, in Toronto. This…
![Paranoid-Dementia,-Death,-Portrait,-Hallucinations,-Realism,-Creativity,-Images,-Psychology,-Mental-Health,-Suffering,-Francisco-Goya,-La-Maja-Desnuda](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/02/Paranoid-Dementia-Death-Portrait-Hallucinations-Realism-Creativity-Images-Psychology-Mental-Health-Suffering-Francisco-Goya-La-Maja-Desnuda-e1550680066970-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Considered the most important Spanish painter from the late 18th century and early 19th century, Francisco Goya is one of the greatest contemporary portraitists. He also suffered from…
![Art, Therapy, bipolar disorder, Treatment, Mental Health, mental illness, images, painting, Jackson Pollock, depression](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/Emma-Semptember-Feature-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Jackson Pollock was an American painter who suffered from bipolar disorder and alcoholism for most of his life. Pollock founded the Abstract Expressionist Movement introducing a dramatic new style of painting referred to as…
![Social Media is Not Real Life](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/Althea-August-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Instagram has become a platform that enables and expands the careers of “social media influencers,” individuals who are the face of advertisements for many companies and…
![The Potato Eaters](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/09/David-August-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
One of Vincent van Gogh’s masterpieces, “The Potato Eaters” serves as a gritty snapshot of a peasant family struggling to survive in the Netherlands during…
![Ecstatic Visions of Nature](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/04/r1-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Séraphine Louis, whose life inspired the 2008 bio-pic Séraphine, is a self-taught French artist known for her intensely coloured ornamental floral paintings. Inspired by religious…
![Man Without Gravity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/03/lf1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“Man Without Gravity” is Josef Forster’s only work and was originally untitled. This expressionist style piece painted after 1916 depicts a boy in a black…
![Yayoi Kusama](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/02/Henry-ac-feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Yayoi Kusama, now 88 years old, is a renowned artist with a history of mental disorder. From an early age, she experienced visual and aural…
![Behind Bars](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/01/prison-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Judith Carlin’s art explores the human condition, our stories, and how we treat one another. Believing in the positive power of art, Judith uses her…