Statistical Image Properties in Works from the Prinzhorn Collection of Artists with Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: The Prinzhorn Collection preserves and exhibits thousands of visual artworks by patients who were diagnosed to suffer from mental disease. From this collection, we analyzed 1,256 images by 14 artists who were diagnosed with dementia praecox or schizophrenia. Six objective statistical properties that have been used previously to characterize visually aesthetic images were calculated. These properties reflect features of formal image composition, such as the complexity and distribution of oriented luminance gradients and edges, as well as Fourier spectral properties. Results for the artists with schizophrenia were compared to artworks from three public art collections of paintings and drawings that include highly acclaimed artworks as well as artworks of lesser artistic claim (control artwor

SUBMITTER: Henemann GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5732538 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature