Mental And Emotional Health Articles: Art Ain’t Just Self-Expression

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While living well involves feeling good about life, having something to do that you care very much about that you immerse yourself in it, becoming good enough at something to take some pride in it, having people in your lifespan whom you care about and who care about you, and feeling connected with something that takes you beyond yourself like your family, your community, your work, and so forth, in simple terms.

Arthur Danto a philosopher and art critic refers to the transcendent capacity of art as the transfiguration of the commonplace.

Everyone who appreciates some sort of art experiences through it something powerful, significant, and elevating, quite a few of us, ofcourse, are not captured by Pop art. By this he means that art somehow becomes imbued with meanings that go well beyond the surface of the artistic product.. His example is Warhol’s Brillo Box or Campbell soup cans, that somehow convey a significance way beyond their visual surface. Art is one transcendent source experience, not a single one but a very important one.

Art also helps people to connect with and deal with their emotions.

Through the arts people can find voices to express dimensions of self usually left in silence.

It’s also ‘self creation’, Art isn’t just ‘self expression’. Art can inarticulate. Through art, people can shape their own identity. Most of us are aware that there are two dimensions to this. That said, art can be a healing force for people with mental disorders, including people with dementia, and art can contribute to psychological well being of people regardless of whether they have a mental disorder or not.

Surely it’s a tremendous source of happiness for a great many people, art isn’t the source of the greatest happiness in everyone’s life. Given a regular belief that madness and creativity are linked, it’s surely worth noting that whether mental illness contributes to art, art certainly can contribute to mental health. Michael Friedman will deliver the keynote address at the NYS Psychological Association’s Annual Conference on Art and Psychology on June 9, For information. For them, art can have a great healing impact, a fact I have recently written about in other posts. Eventually, while shaping of self, connections with people and a culture, and the potential for transcendent experience apply both to people without mental disorders and those with mental disorders, the contributions that art can make to psychological well being via enjoyment, immersion, development of skill, revelation and expression of emotion.

Which also addresses the human potential to live well, all of this has vast implications for how we can build satisfying lives for ourselves and our children and in addition suggests that there ought to be a public mental health agenda that isn’t limited to the treatment of mental illnesses.

Whenever spending hours at a time playing, writing, painting, dancing, and so forth, they also immerse themselves in it.

Undoubtedly it’s clear, I believe, that art can provide every of these elements of wellbeing. Much of the time spent working at art is practice rather than creative discovery, and practice, certainly, is essential for building skill, that is itself a source of great satisfaction. Usually, most obviously. Not always maybe. On p of that, Surely it’s, or at least can be, a source of important friendships. While doing art has meaning not simply for the individual doing it, moreover for a society, for a culture. Time seems to disappear, to be suspended. Doing art also connects the person doing it with other artists and with audiences. While doing art also connects the artist with a field of art, with a history and a language that goes far beyond what any individual artist does.