Museum of mental health

The maze 1953 by William Kurelek

William Kurelek was a man with mental health and his life and how he has related over the years of his relationships and family members is what this piece of art work is meant to be. He felt that other people's relationships are being manipulated by other people, therefore, this resulted into them doing, bad things. People that tend to have mental health, may use the arts as a way to escape how they feel and to find peace in certain situation in their lives. The picture below exaggerates the life that William had and how he had to deal with these certain situations and sometimes how he couldn't deal with these situations. The maze shows that William constantly felt like he was in his own little world because the people of his time didn't really understand mental health so no one understood how he truly felt.

Out of the maze ,1971 by William Kurelek

Out of the Maze is a piece of art that William Kurelek did later on when he got the help that he need and when people truly understood what mental health was and how they could help people that had mental illnesses. This picture named Out of the maze dramatizes how William Kurelek felt later on when people understood him. He felt a sense of freedom and communicating with everyone that he loved and knew because they knew how he truly felt and how the mental illness effected him,

This is a piece of work that I saw and thought was very effective because its shows how mental patience may actually feel because most of the time they do not really have anyone to really talk to because not everyone understands them. The picture shows that even though all three of this girls all have mental health and are around each other , they still feel alone and emotional disconnected from the rest of the world.

It is interesting that the artist used children instead of adults, this could suggest that mental health for him/her ripped away their child like joy and wonder and just left them to be scared and confused with who they were and who others around them were because the characters are around each other , however, they still give off a hint of being alone in their own thoughts or maybe feeling alone physically as well as emotionally.

Bryan Charnley called Sleep

This is a piece of work by Bryan Charnley called Sleep made in 1988. This is a painting of a figure sleeping beneath a window through which swans can be seen flying. The key message of this painting is that it is meant to celebrate the power of dreams and the existence of dreams and reality.                                                                                                                                           What I like about the piece is that when looking at it, you can really feel the idea of freedom that Bryan Charnley is trying to elaborate, this is effective because as a piece of art it actually makes you feel something, This piece of art can be really effective because in our production since we are working on the theme of mental health or madness , we could use this vibe of freedom in the play to show a moment where the character or characters actually feeling free and understood.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

This piece of art work is called Despair. I believe this picture is effective because it made me feel something, i felt like the person that drew this picture felt like they was not "light at the end of the tunnel". what I really like about this painting is that it makes an immediate impact with whoever that see it, it makes anyone question their fears or even what the picture is really about.

I think that this picture is a little insight into how this person with mental health felt inside and what they may or may not of found hard to live with. This picture suggest that there is no happy ending but just darkness in life and confusion. The foot steps in the picture is quite interesting and effective because it makes us ask questions of who's foot steps are those and where did they go? etc.