You can create some interesting mandalas at this site. If you click on the asterisks, there is more information about the different elements.
Leave a brief but thoughtful COMMENT (100 words or so) on this post answering one or more of these questions:
- How or why do you think art could be used as therapy?
- Can you think of other pieces of or types of art that are connected to certain faiths, disciplines or movements?
- What role does art play in your own life?
- If you could be any kind of artist, what would you be? Why?
- What do your doodles say about your personality? Check this site or others for reference.
- Why do you think Adult Coloring Books are so popular right now? This article has some ideas.
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I think art can be very therapeutic because it has a tendency to make us think about our lives.
ReplyDeleteI can think of the super realistic art of the Renaissance that started a massive movement in the art world.
For my life, I think art helps me vent and relax.
I would personally be a digital artist. There's plenty of money in it if you know where to go and I absolutely love messing with all the setting in Photoshop.
According to the site, my doodles indicate that I prefer to observe rather than participate, which I guess is sorta true considering how homecoming went for me.
I think adult coloring books are popular because people are running out of creative outlets and coloring within lines is surprisingly relaxing.
Art played a big role in my life for several years while I was doing ballet. My studio was actually connected to a small gallery where artists had their work on display. The Springfield Opera and Symphony also had rehearsals a lot when I was in class, so I got to listen to those forms of performance art as well. Dancing used to be my creative outlet, and I will probably enjoy watching ballet my entire life, but now I use other ways of getting out my creativity. I like to use watercolors, so I paint small doodles and flowers mostly whenever I'm especially stressed out or when I can't sleep. I bought an intricate coloring book recently and I use that sometimes too as a way to calm down before bed.
ReplyDeleteArt should be used as a means of expressing one's emotions without having to try and form them into words. I love art, but the only art I seem to be able to do are the hyper detailed zentangles and mandalas. I'm not sure that I could say with confidence which type of artist I would want to be, I love painting and two dimensional art, but I would also love to create realistic sculptures. My doodles are the very detailed type, so it seems that I have an obsessive personality and am extremely introverted. I think that people are realizing that the complexities of adult life are not always entertaining or fulfilling, and that the simple act of creating and finishing something concrete is very satisfying, giving you instant feedback and a small sense of pride.
ReplyDeleteArt has always played a very important part in my life. Especially in the past year. I'm in color guard and dancing is something I really enjoy. We try a lot of different types of dance from ballroom dancing to hip hop. I get to go to competitions and see other teams' interpretations of dance. Also, I'm an artist and have grown in the past few years by focusing on my art. I'm in portfolio and get the chance almost everyday to see other peoples interpretation of art. I love painting and drawing. Different forms of art are significant in my life.
ReplyDeletei think art is a important thing because about art it has a story behind it art is creativity and you can do things in your own way and in your own mind. art is about expressing yourself in ways you couldn't do before and it is about being unique and getting a chance to share with it with other people. And i think that music is related to art because it has a passion when i sing i feel like i am letting my feelings out through a microphone just like people draw their feelings out on a piece of paper.
ReplyDeleteIf I could be an artist, I would definitely be a kind of Iconoclast, just attacking popular things that I feel are dumb. Just because I feel like one of my goals in life is to make others around me think, to have them question there own ideals. I think that art is a really good way to do that.
ReplyDeleteArt plays a huge role in my life. I love to paint and create my own world that is entirely my own. I love to draw things out the way I think they should, and having the power to erase or thicken lines where they should be. I become lost as I find my outlet and basically my only talent. My dream is to do something in the art field when I get older: painting, portrait drawer, landscape artist, animator... Art is all around us in the world, it's in everything, that if I word hard enough I could probably work in any company I had in interest in: Google, Sega, Apple, Disney, FBI, Pixar- really, art is everywhere. It not only plays a huge role in my life, but in everyone elses, even if they don't see it.
ReplyDeletewhat role does art play in your life? Well art always been a role in life because basically I see it everyday. Art can help peoples emotion and an bring thoughts to the art they are looking upon. Also art also plays a role in my life because I love looking at art in my mind the art could be anything it could have a unknown story behind it but nobody knows besides who made the art work.
ReplyDeleteAfter school last Wednesday, I had therapy. My therapist, Stephanie, decided we were going to take a day to just sit and colour, with no limitations on our conversation. We sat there, my page was an adult colouring page, and just coloured. I didn't say anythingfor almost 15 minutes, just sat there colouring that paper, silently crying.
ReplyDeleteShe looked at me, without pity but understanding in her eyes, and then I started talking.
Art therapy, like music therapy, are valid forms of therapy just now finding their ways in the world. I want to be a music therapist, so of course I'm gonna defend it :)