Media Resource for a Mental Health Center

Student: Apanasik Varvara

Educational Programme: Design (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2024

The study examines the evolution of depicting melancholy in art, focusing on how artists embodied their own experiences of this state. The author explores non-obvious images and symbols that can enrich the visual language for effectively conveying these emotions. The method of analyzing and comparing artworks allows for identifying changes in the selection of symbols, styles, and techniques across different historical periods. Special attention is given to the period from the 19th to the 20th century when melancholy became a subject of particular interest due to the active study of psychology and psychoanalysis.

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