The work you see above is “The Girl in Front of the Mirror”. In this painting, Picasso depicts his young mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter. At the "Headaches conference" held in London in 2000, a neurologist made the following interesting statements about Picasso: "Most likely, Picasso suffered from migraine. Dr. from Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands. According to Michel Ferrari, some of Picasso's works show incredible similarities with the paintings made by migraine patients depicting their experiences during the crisis. “
“The vertical slits and the offset of the facial parts seen in Pablo Picasso's paintings of female faces are noticeably similar to the shapes seen by migraine patients,” states Ferrari. “The most basic feature of vision abnormalities, which is one of the consequences of migraine, is that they increase over time. They are also known as 'moat or trench-surrounded spectra' due to their shape (like looking at a medieval village from the air).” Ferrari notes that there are many different types of vision abnormalities, from striped patterns to glowing spots, often looking like this "village surrounded by moats". According to Ferrari, 20% to 30% of patients experience vision abnormalities before the headache, and some patients even persist for about an hour at a time without a headache. Although there is no official record that Picasso suffered from migraine, "if he too suffered from visual abnormalities caused by migraine without headache, this point could have easily been overlooked," Ferrari states. Dr. from the Online Picasso Project at Texas A&M University. Enrique Mallen and Dr. Over the past few years, Ferrari has collected many examples of drawings, paintings, paintings and other artistic works made by migraine patients. The illusory fractures of these patients' visual worlds were so similar to Picasso's work that researchers concluded that the master was suffering from visual abnormalities caused by migraines.
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