Analysis of the similarities between the paintings of mental patients and the great painters of the world

Insanity, genius, art and the relationship between them are among the most interestingsubjects which emerged from ancient ages with the theory of plato, which linkedinsanity and art, and developed in the pre-Islamic period in Saudi Arabia, where poetswere called insane and is continued by present age with multipoli theories about it.This research makes an attempt to comparatively study the paintings done by mentalpatients (the insane) and the works of great painters (genii). In the practical part, theworks selected from a set of fourteen artists and fourteen mental patients have beenstudied and compared. In this research the most results are as following:1-There issimilarity between the mental patients paintings and painters works of the world-whichare given in present research -of view containing and visual.2-Based upon worked outsubjects from authoritative books,some expressionist and surrealist artists specially JanDubuffet;French artist created works on the influence of works of mental patients.