Anna Suvorova about expressionism and the art of mentally ill
“For a whole day, I imagined that I was crazy, and I was even pleased with this thought, because then I would have everything that I wanted,” exclaims the inspired Oscar Schlommer, one of the professors of the legendary Bauhaus, after visiting the collection of art of psychiatric patients in Heidelberg. In the avant -garde era, marginality, outstanding, madness, strangeness, alogism become new “objects of desire”.