Art intervention

of Marianne Brandt When thinking about the Bauhaus and all of its accomplishments and designs, it is rare that one thinks of a woman's work. Despite this most likely having something to do with Walter Gropius’s intentions, men's domination in the art world and history being written largely by men, there were many distinct successful works by women that have been overshadowed by the male counterpart. Marianne Brandt was one of the Bauhaus’s most ingenious female students who made incredible…

Although therapy has so many varieties and types the emotional benefits are far and wide the benefits of using aesthetics to evaluate any type of art can be difficult, but I believe using any type of art can be beneficial to a person’s spirit. Music therapy is something that I use in my daily life. Music therapy was formally established as a profession in 1950. (Abrams, 2011) Since that time, the practice of music therapy has been conceptualized and defined in a wide variety of ways this spirit…

families in a large northeast city is a constant challenge when it comes to providing the best art therapy for the clients. This clinical setting is primarily focused on affording free access to social services for families in need, and thus the funding for art therapy is minimal. This obstacle forces art therapists to be more creative and to think originally when it comes to appropriate therapeutic interventions for the population. The families working with the Center are either referred by…

illness and how she used it in and through her art. I will investigate how much she has contributed towards, and what impact she has made on the art world. I would like to collate and analyse the existing literature and sources of information about her, concentrating on the fundamentals of abstract art and minimalism. This will be in order to understand why and how she exposes her inner vulnerability, which comes from her mental disorder, in her field of art, and shares it with the viewer. To…

If one wants to see what a society is like, they need only take a look at the media. Literature and other forms of art are often very accurate representations of what certain society’s value. Germinal is one such example, it is a story depicting the daily lives of French miners, and the mine owners in a capitalist society. It shows the lives that the rich led versus the lives of the poor and suffering. Not only did it contrast the different quality of living that each group had, but it also…

Examining illness as a metaphor through an early and recent work of Yayoi Kusama and the impact it has on the spectator Examine a body art/live art practitioner in depth, using two pieces of their work as case studies. Using these pieces, contextualize the artist within the history of body-based/ live art performance This essay will explore illness as a metaphor, something that is representative or symbolic, within Yayoi Kusama’s work and the way in which it enables the spectator to reflect,…

developing world. Critics sensed colonialist undertones and worried about unchecked Western encroachments on national sovereignty in the Global South. R2P has been used or cited numerous times over the past decade from 2005-Present, with some interventions experiencing more success than others. Currently, the ongoing civil war in Syria, combined with…

Art critic Clement Greenberg once said, “I don’t see art as having ever, in a real sense, affected the course of human affairs.” The sentiment here is that any “art” which has an impact on the world becomes propaganda or craft. However, the people who postulate this sentiment are the ones who use art for the crudest of purposes: the art market. It’s the same logic as saying that education has no purpose outside the world of work and consumption. When art becomes liberated from the demands of the…

Chapter 3: Pinter’s Political Activism and Political Plays Can art be separated from politics is a question which has been debated upon by many critics. Personally, I feel that since art is a representation of life, and politics in life begins when at least two individuals are involved, it can never be separated from politics. However hard an artist tries to separate his work from the tricky games of politics, his efforts turn out to be futile as the artist’s own idea in his work is a political…

Art therapy is a practice in which clients under the supervision of a certified art therapist use art to explore feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior, reduce stress and increase self-esteem (Ramirez, 2016). Through the art therapy treatment, the main goal is to restore a client's functioning and their sense of personal well-being (Thong, 2007). The treatment involves various art activities which include drawing, painting, and other crafts decided by the…