Art Day
Art day is a worldwide celebration of art scheduled to take place each year on the second day of July. July 2nd is at the very center of the year. Art is at the very center of our everyday lives. That just goes to show how art is all round our daily life it’s in everything we do every day.
Oscar Wilde’s famous quote, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life”.
Art has been said to be ‘an expression of both hope and despair’, which embodies all facets of the human condition.
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Art Therapy
Sometimes called creative arts therapy or expressive arts therapy, encourages people to express and understand emotions through artistic expression and through the creative process.
Art therapy provides the client-artist with critical insight into emotions, thoughts, and feelings. Key benefits of the art therapy process include:
- Self-discovery,
- Personal fulfillment can build confidence and nurture feelings of self-worth
- Empowerment
- Relaxation and stress
- Symptom relief and physical rehabilitation and can also help patients cope with pain.
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Humans have expressed themselves with symbols throughout history. Masks, ritual pottery, costumes, other objects used in rituals, cave drawings, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Celtic art and symbols are all visual records of self-expression and communication through art. Art has also been associated spiritual power, and artistic forms such as the Hindu and Buddhist Mandala and Native American sand painting are considered powerful healing tools.
Everyone has an imagination. Art takes it a step further. Through art, children create something that, until that point, was only imagined. Thus, they create visual manifestations of abstract ideas. Art in all its forms is the universal language. It is the great equalizer and thinking agent. Art reaches across borders and connects the world. Great Art stirs the imagination, causing us to Art records the footprint of all peoples, cultures and the world around us. |
