Zaidel D W
Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2017 Aug 19;7(3):56. doi: 10.3390/bs7030056.
The neural underpinning of art creation can be gleaned following brain injury in professional artists. Any alteration to their artistic productivity, creativity, skills, talent, and genre can help understand the neural underpinning of art expression. Here, two world-renown and influential artists who sustained brain injury in World War I are the focus, namely the French artist Georges Braque and the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka. Braque is particularly associated with Cubism, and Kokoschka with Expressionism. Before enlisting, they were already well-known and highly regarded. Both were wounded in the battlefield where they lost consciousness and treated in European hospitals. Braque's injury was in the left hemisphere while Kokoschka's was in the right hemisphere. After the injury, Braque did not paint again for nearly a whole year while Kokoschka commenced his artistic works when still undergoing hospital treatment. Their post-injury art retained the same genre as their pre-injury period, and their artistic skills, talent, creativity, and productivity remained unchanged. The quality of their post-injury artworks remained highly regarded and influential. These neurological cases suggest widely distributed and diffuse neural control by the brain in the creation of art.
专业艺术家脑损伤后有助于探究艺术创作的神经基础。他们艺术生产力、创造力、技巧、天赋和风格的任何改变，都有助于理解艺术表达的神经基础。在此，两位在第一次世界大战中脑损伤的世界著名且有影响力的艺术家成为焦点，即法国艺术家乔治·布拉克和奥地利艺术家奥斯卡·柯柯施卡。布拉克尤其与立体主义相关，柯柯施卡与表现主义相关。入伍前，他们就已声名远扬且备受赞誉。两人都在战场上受伤，失去意识，并在欧洲医院接受治疗。布拉克的损伤在左半球，而柯柯施卡的损伤在右半球。受伤后，布拉克将近一整年没有再作画，而柯柯施卡仍在住院治疗时就开始了他的艺术创作。他们受伤后的艺术风格与受伤前相同，艺术技巧、天赋、创造力和生产力也未改变。他们受伤后的艺术作品质量依然备受赞誉且具有影响力。这些神经学案例表明，大脑在艺术创作中存在广泛分布且弥散的神经控制。
