The paintings produced in the psychiatric artist’s workshops that represent landscapes, places and other themes of the exterior world did not receive great attention from the researchers. The problem lies on an idea about the artistic creation in which the references to the material world and the unconscious images represent two distinct types of works of art. This article analyses this problem by means of a phenomenological approach through which one can conclude the undistinguished separation of the external world and the interior creation in the production of a work of art. The work of art is rooted between the artist and the world..
psychology of art; raw art; esthetic reception; perception