Hyatt Erica, Blom Jan Dirk
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Outpatient Clinic for Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, Netherlands.
Front Psychiatry. 2024 Dec 4;15:1466666. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1466666. eCollection 2024.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a neurological condition characterized by perceptual distortions, most of which are visual in nature (metamorphopsias). Over the past decade there has been a movement in contemporary figurative painting away from strict mimesis toward depicting distortions of the painting's subject, called disrupted realism. In certain cases the similarities between the distortions in those paintings and those characteristic of AIWS are so striking that we suspect that artists may have experienced distorted perceptions themselves and used them for creative inspiration.
To empirically test this hypothesis we interviewed 20 painters who frequently use distortions in their work, using the SIntAD, a tailor-made, semi-structured questionnaire. We then carried out a phenomenological analysis of the perceptual phenomena reported on, and compared them with those in their paintings.
Of the artists interviewed, 85% reported on having experienced positive disorders of perception in general (comprising hallucinations, perceptual distortions and other perceptual phenomena), with 55% reporting on a total number of 15 metamorphopsias. Most artists had not been aware of having these distortions to their perception. Nonetheless, most did not use these specific distortions in their work, but rather different types.
Symptoms of AIWS and other positive disorders of perception are common among contemporary painters who frequently use distortions in their figurative work, although perhaps not more common than in the general population. Artists in the disrupted-realism movement tend not to mimic their own perceptual distortions in their work, although they do feel inspired to distort their work in different ways.
爱丽丝梦游仙境综合征（AIWS）是一种神经系统疾病，其特征为感知扭曲，其中大部分是视觉性质的（视物变形症）。在过去十年中，当代具象绘画出现了一种趋势，即从严格的模仿转向描绘绘画主体的扭曲，这被称为破坏现实主义。在某些情况下，这些绘画中的扭曲与AIWS的特征之间的相似性非常惊人，以至于我们怀疑艺术家们自己可能经历过感知扭曲，并将其用于创作灵感。
为了实证检验这一假设，我们使用一份特制的半结构化问卷SIntAD，采访了20位在作品中频繁使用扭曲手法的画家。然后，我们对他们报告的感知现象进行了现象学分析，并将其与他们绘画中的现象进行了比较。
在接受采访的艺术家中，85%的人报告称总体上经历过积极的感知障碍（包括幻觉、感知扭曲和其他感知现象），55%的人报告总共经历过15次视物变形症。大多数艺术家并未意识到自己有这些感知扭曲。尽管如此，大多数人在作品中并未使用这些特定的扭曲，而是使用了不同类型的扭曲。
AIWS的症状和其他积极的感知障碍在当代具象作品中频繁使用扭曲手法的画家中很常见，尽管可能并不比普通人群更常见。破坏现实主义运动中的艺术家们在作品中往往不会模仿自己的感知扭曲，尽管他们确实会受到启发以不同方式扭曲作品。
