Improvement

Another video which I found useful and is also a Ted talk was ‘’Art’s healing power by Pamela Jacques’’ (Uploaded by TEDx Talks). In here it is showing a more practical way of how art can be performed by sharing her simple message of healing and in a way that it is supported by live painting. By this, she is showing how the body and the brain are corresponding with the canvas creating thoes random lines/Fades. With the use of colours added into her piece she is able to create bright and contrast colours with the use of brushes and fingers. With every word she is creating a texture of its own; making the art pieces unique and self-expressing. I think is a good example due that the story had been based in her lifetime.

Reference:

TEDx Talks, (2014). Art's healing power | Pamela Jacques | TEDxGraterfordStatePrison. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CEL_l8hTc&t=282s  [Accessed 17 Jan. 2017].

Developing throughout our DNA

Moving on, I started making more research throughout the internet where I found some Ted talks on the YouTube channel which work really well with the concept mentioned in the last blog. One of the videos was called ‘’Art as empowerment: the virtue of art therapy by Ann Lawton’’ (Uploaded by TEDx Talks). Where in this talk she is giving out her own personal experience throughout her life, how she was always using art to visualize herself - showing means of symbolism done by simple lines. Despite the fact, she kept building on her talk by saying how she managed to build up her personality by the use of her artistic love which by time she is able to share her knowledge to help other people who suffer from any kind of problems. Another good example which also goes hand in hand with the topic is how art has been implanted for thousands of years into the human’s DNA, which by time always evolves; that when we were just children we used to like to draw lines with bright colors on paper or on the wall. This was done because we used to feel good about it and continued doing it that by then, we started obeying certain rules and by the time we got older we started hearing people say that art is not a good career to work on and confuses us by other subjects. This relates mostly to the same question I asked in the beginning how it could be able to change the view or how the brain processes this. Sometimes it’s so scary to produce something because they could be judged or pointed at but by this it’s allowing them to step forward and in their darkest fear they will be able to show courage and hope which are done from the simplest random materials such as newspapers.

References:

TEDx Talks, (2016). Art as Empowerment: The Virtue of Art Therapy | Ann Lawton | TEDxUWRiverFalls. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPszGBfjuOY&t=168s  [Accessed 13 Jan. 2017].

Are we developing ?

Throughout this academic semester i started thinking about on which subject i'm going to base my thesis project on and by the means of research throughout the use of the internet such as PDF files/websites and physical books i was starting to get a glimpse on which path i'm going to follow.

At first i was a bit lost and confused but by always narrowing down the theme and focused research i will be able to have a bulletproof project, which due the further months i will be building y physical project which will support my writing section. At first i saw an interest in Art therapy, for me its something new which i have little knowledge of but i managed to get basic information which lead me through out interesting subject and how by time its evolving not only that its helping people but the artist it self can make good use of his own art. To compare more between different eras i started doing some research on how at that time art was used as somewhat the same was as art therapy. But by the results that i found during the impressionist and post impressionist artist were showing more their idea of how they are seeing art in which they were also creating it. Their art was filled with bright colors, hard brushstrokes in which created movement and giving a sense of direction and also they managed to capture a good amount of natural light which made their paintings feel life like even dough they were painted in the proper way.

By this i was able to get a clear idea of when art therapy was being implanted and how it is evolving now a days, which by the use of it may help future artist and people.