Pigro: an "absolute individualist" and his portrait studies.

Painting and drawing are the most basic, natural, direct and psychological interesting forms of expression and communication with oneself and with the others. For some patients, like shisophrenic patients, the artistic expression can be a more suitable form of communication than the use of words. The paper on which the patient draws or paints can be the first external material to contain the patient's psychotic experience. With artistic expression he can externalise initially inexpressible thoughts and fears. Parallel to the agitation of psychotic patient, the drawing style during psychosis state is chaotic and characterized by dissolving structures.