Art Therapy: Is It Effective? Georgia O’Keeffe once said‚ “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way. Things I had no words for.” The actual creation of art triggers an unconscious process helping a person connect with his emotions (Kotwas). The process is said to enhance the physical‚ mental‚ and emotional well-being of individuals of all ages and backgrounds. The expressive arts do not discriminate and is an effective alternative to traditional psychotherapy
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Running Head: Baroque Works of Art IP 5 Running Head: Baroque Works of Art 1 Baroque Works of Art The Baroque period of art was from the 1600’s to the 1700’s. This period in art history began with the Catholic Church launching an internal reformation to establish clear definitions of the church’s theologies‚ as well as their doctrines. A sector of the church’s reform was to educate the members
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When the word “art” comes to mind‚ I think about a painting. I think about the colors blending together to create an image. However‚ thinking a little more I think about a sculpture and its smooth‚ about the story and emotions it expresses. Art in general for me is something beautiful and expressive. Although beautiful as well‚ I never thought about architecture in the category of art until this week’s reading. In this week’s reading about the Parthenon‚ it is interesting to learn the background
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Art Review The artist I would like to introduce is Tang Ying Mui‚ Grace. She is currently working as an active female contemporary artist in Hong Kong. Grace’s main form of art is installation art. Grace is well-known for her continue exploration of the use of thin plastic wrapped wire. She likes working with this material not only because it is low-priced but due to its flexibility. She can mould the wire into different shapes - as if it was a 3-D drawn line stretching from papers into the
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Analysis of One Art The opening stanza of Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”‚ the narrator reveals the clear statement of the poem‚ which is her struggle with grasping and coping with and the idea of loss. Bishop uses the implication of word structure and word choice to further the message of the poem. She increases the emotional seriousness with each stanza to create a firm foundation on which to deliver a dramatic conclusion‚ and integrates communicative words throughout the poem. To further
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The essay discusses minimalist art and its relation to modernist painting and sculpture in generic terms applicable in art criticism.We first summarize its main points. Fried’s essay claims that Minimal Art (which he prefers to refer to as literalist art) is largely ideological. It defines its position as neither modernist painting nor modernist sculpture‚ but rather art which is whole‚ without parts. The shape and presence of the artwork has to be whole‚ one. By contrast‚ modernist painting must
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The first attempts to fo create Art Noveau were made in 1861 by William Morris and his other artists‚ that founded the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was a kind of reaction to mid- 19th century artistic styles. These artists wanted the objects of beauty to be handmade‚ but they didn’t succeeded. It was too expensive for the majority of people. But magazines and exhibitions used their ideas and it made a platform for the birth of Art Noveau. This style was richly ornamental with a lot of curves and
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Some consider art as useless subject that does not teach us anything; only consider art as the entertainment. But arts could be very beneficial to us‚ it teaches us lesson such as history and culture‚ and allow us to feel the same feeling that artist felt. The main value of the arts is to teach us about the world around us. There are many meanings in the arts. The work of arts includes all the aspect of our society. The arts can express many feelings that we could not feel without it. There is countless
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Experiences of Their Eyes Art involving Deaf Visual and Image Art is known as De’VIA. De’VIA was an art movement inspired by deaf artists to “come out of the closet” during the early 1980s and late 1990s (Miller 303). To come out of the closet is to show pride in being deaf‚ instead of hiding their deafness or trying to imitate the hearing. Deaf people have a history comprise of discrimination‚ being ignored and oppressed by the hearing world. Thus‚ through their art they are able to represent
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Culture and Arts What is culture? Culture is an inherited idea that distinguishes one group of people from another. Every society has different cultures that share languages‚ traditions and behaviors. Having a different culture gives people an identity that makes them unique and different from other citizens. What about the different components? Various languages are important part of culture. Religion and beliefs are also important part of what the people believe in. The value of
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