MIGRAINE EFFECTS ON RETURN TO

CASTLE BY GIORGIO DE CHIRICO

RESEARCH INTRODUCTION
QUESTION
This research aims to deeply investigate and
In what ways did migraines affect the analyze the correlation between migraines, a type
creation of Return to Castle by Giorgio of headache that causes hallucinations, and
Giorgio de Chirico's Return to Castle. It is
de Chirico?
important to conduct this research because of the
amount of people who suffer from migraines.
This study understand artistic influences like
migraines and analyzes how they can be reflected
in art, specially in the 1969 painting Return to
Castle.
WHAT ARE MIGRAINES?
Migraines are a type of headaches that have one of
the effects being visual aura, which are visual
hallucinations of shapes during a migraine episode .

GAP
Many studies show the existing relationship
between migraines and plastic arts with
examples, but this study evaluates how migraines
can be a form of art in a specific painting and METHOD
how this can be identified an interpreted.
Content Analysis Method seeks to examine
PEOPLE WITH documents and communication artifacts
MIGRAINES including painting. I analyzed Return to
Castle in order to identify a migrainous
IN THE WORLD influence in this painting.

World Population (14%) REFERENCES

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