Artistic creativity and dementia.A study of assessment by experts

  1. Manuel H. Belver 1
  2. Ana Mª Ullán 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    info

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Revue:
Arte, individuo y sociedad

ISSN: 1131-5598

Année de publication: 2017

Titre de la publication: ARTE Y DEMENCIA

Volumen: 29

Número: 0

Pages: 127-138

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/ARIS.54453 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

D'autres publications dans: Arte, individuo y sociedad

Résumé

The goal of this study was to determine whether experts attribute a series of images created by people with dementia who were participating in a program of contemporary art education to artists or to people without prior artistic experience. In this way, we sought to obtain an indicator of the artistic quality of the images produced by people with dementia. Participants were 122 specialists in art to whom were presented 30 images, 15 works by professional artists and 15 created by people with dementia. For each of the 15 images created by the people with dementia, we calculated the proportion of experts who attributed the image to a professional artist. The results indicated that, in a significant number of cases, which varied according to the images, the experts attributed the images to professional artists. The judgment of the experts reinforcing the idea of the creative potential of people with dementia.

€ Voir financement

Information sur le financement

Este artículo recoge resultados de la investigación ref. EDU2013-43253-R, financiada por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

Financeurs

Références bibliographiques

  • Amabile, T. M. (1982). Social psychology of creativity: A consensual assessment technique. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43(5), 997-1013. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.43.5.997
  • Amabile, T. M. (1985). Motivation and creativity: Effects of motivational orientation on creative writers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48(2), 393399. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.48.2.393
  • Beard, R. L. (2012). Art therapies and dementia care: A systematic review. Dementia, 11(5), 633-656. doi: 10.1177/1471301211421090
  • Benbow, S. M., & Reynolds, D. (2000). Challenging the stigma of Alzheimer’s disease. Hospital Medicine, 61, 174-177.
  • Camic, P. M., Baker, E. L., & Tischler, V. (2015). Theorizing How Art Gallery Interventions Impact People With Dementia and Their Caregivers. The Gerontologist. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnv063
  • Camic, P. M., Tischler, V., & Pearman, C. H. (2014). Viewing and making art together: a multi-session art-gallery-based intervention for people with dementia and their carers. Aging Ment Health, 18(2), 161-168. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2013.818101
  • Chung, J. C. C. (2004). Activity Participation and Well-Being of People With Dementia in Long-Term–Care Settings. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 24(1), 22-31.
  • Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1991). Flow: the psychology of optimal experience . New York: Harper & Row.
  • Cummings, J., Miller, B. L., Christensen, D., & Cherry, D. (2008). Creativity and dementia: emerging diagnostic Alzheimer’s disease. CNS Spectrum, 13, 1-24.
  • Eekelaar, C., Camic, P. M., & Springham, N. (2012). Art galleries, episodic memory and verbal fluency in dementia: An exploratory study. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 6(3), 262-272. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0027499
  • Flatt, J. D., Liptak, A., Oakley, M. A., Gogan, J., Varner, T., & Lingler, J. H. (2015). Subjective experiences of an art museum engagement activity for persons with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and their family caregivers. Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen, 30(4), 380-389. doi: 10.1177/1533317514549953
  • Folstein, M. F., Folstein, S. E., & McHugh, P. R. (1975). “Mini-mental state”. A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res, 12(3), 189-198.
  • Fornazzari, L. R. (2005). Preserved painting creativity in an artist with Alzheimer’s disease. European Journal of Neurology, 12(6), 419-424. doi: 10.1111/j.14681331.2005.01128.x
  • Kapur, N. (1996). Paradoxical functional facilitation in brain-behaviour research. A critical review. Brain, 119 ( Pt 5), 1775-1790.
  • Kapur, N., Cole, J., Manly, T., Viskontas, I., Ninteman, A., Hasher, L., & PascualLeone, A. (2013). Positive clinical neuroscience: explorations in positive neurology. Neuroscientist, 19(4), 354-369. doi: 10.1177/1073858412470976
  • Katsuno, T. (2005). Dementia from the inside: how people with early-stage dementia evaluate their quality of life. Ageing and Society, 25, 197-214. doi: 10.1017/ s0144686x0400279x
  • Kinney, J. M., & Rentz, C. A. (2005). Observed well-being among individuals with dementia: Memories in the Making©, an art program, versus other structured activity. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, 20(4), 220-227. doi: 10.1177/153331750502000406
  • MacPherson, S., Bird, M., Anderson, K., Davis, T., & Blair, A. (2009). An art gallery access programme for people with dementia: ‘you do it for the moment’. Aging Ment Health, 13(5), 744-752. doi: 10.1080/13607860902918207
  • Malone, M. L., & Camp, C. J. (2007). Montessori-Based Dementia Programming®: Providing tools for engagement. Dementia, 6(1), 150-157. doi: 10.1177/1471301207079099
  • Mazzucchi, A., Sinforiani, E., & Boller, F. (2013). Artistic creativity, artistic production, and aging. Prog Brain Res, 204, 45-69. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-44463287-6.00003-8
  • Miller, B. L., Boone, K., Cummings, J. L., Read, S. L., & Mishkin, F. (2000). Functional correlates of musical and visual ability in frontotemporal dementia. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 176(5 %U http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/ abstract/176/5/458 %8 May 1, 2000), 458-463.
  • Miller, B. L., Cummings, J., Mishkin, F., Boone, K., Prince, F., Ponton, M., & Cotman, C. (1998). Emergence of artistic talent in frontotemporal dementia. Neurology, 51(4), 978-982.
  • Miller, E., & Johansson, B. (2016). Capability to Paint and Alzheimer’s Disease: Relationship to Disease Stages and Instructions. SAGE Open, January-March, 1-13. doi: 10.1177/2158244016631799
  • Palmiero, M., Di Giacomo, D., & Passafiume, D. (2012). Creativity and dementia: a review. Cogn Process, 13(3), 193-209. doi: 10.1007/s10339-012-0439-y
  • Palmiero, M., Nakatani, C., Raver, D., Belardinelli, M. O., & van Leeuwen, C. (2010). Abilities Within and Across Visual and Verbal Domains: How Specific Is Their Influence on Creativity? Creativity Research Journal, 22(4), 369-377. doi: 10.1080/10400419.2010.523396
  • Perrin, T. (1997). Occupational need in severe dementia: a descriptive study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 25(5), 934-941. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1997.1997025934.x
  • Reisberg, B., Ferris, S. H., de Leon, M. J., & Crook, T. (1982). The Global Deterioration Scale for assessment of primary degenerative dementia. Am J Psychiatry, 139(9), 1136-1139.
  • Rentz, C. A. (2002). Memories in the Making©: Outcome-based evaluation of an art program for individuals with dementing illnesses. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, 17(3), 175-181. doi: 10.1177/153331750201700310
  • Sauer, P. E., Fopma-Loy, J., Kinney, J. M., & Lokon, E. (2014). “It makes me feel like myself”: Person-centered versus traditional visual arts activities for people with dementia. Dementia (London). doi: 10.1177/1471301214543958
  • Sauer, P. E., Fopma-Loy, J., Kinney, J. M., & Lokon, E. (2014). “It makes me feel like myself”: Person-centered versus traditional visual arts activities for people with dementia. Dementia. doi: 10.1177/1471301214543958
  • Ullán, A. M., Belver, M. H., Badía, M., Moreno, C., Garrido, E., Gómez-Isla, J., . . . Tejedor, L. (2013). Contributions of an artistic educational program for older people with early dementia: An exploratory qualitative study. Dementia, 12(4), 425-446. doi: 10.1177/1471301211430650
  • Welling, H. (2007). Four Mental Operations in Creative Cognition: The Importance of Abstraction. Creativity Research Journal, 19(2-3), 163-177. doi: 10.1080/10400410701397214
  • Young, R., Camic, P. M., & Tischler, V. (2015). The impact of community-based arts and health interventions on cognition in people with dementia: a systematic literature review. Aging Ment Health, 1-15. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1011080
  • Zenasni, F., & Lubart, T. I. (2008). Emotion-Related Traits Moderate the Impact of Emotional State on Creative Performances. Journal of Individual Differences, 29(3), 157-167. doi: 10.1027/1614-0001.29.3.157
La source de données: Dialnet