Seanna block 2

5/13/19 ​​Why Art is Amazing in our Society ​ ​ A day

My topic is many things about art like the business or the history all behind it. But

more importantly how art changes us and how can it help us mentally or physically and

how to start learning so you can use art has a therapy method or just for fun. Some

people don’t understand that art can affect us mentally and/or physically. For me art

help me a lot during some family issue in 2018 and once in a while with small problems.

I drew whenever i felt sad, angry, or even when i’m happy because it felt great after

drawing something. Drawing something from my emotions. It’s been helping me through

the years. Even famous artist like Vincent van Gogh inspired me to do art. It’s actually

fascinating as how people react to such work of art. This pieces should change your

view on art, even encourage you to try it out for yourself. Plus, art brought us emotion,

music, even movies, and many more. Art can be basically anything you want. It can

help with mental or physical, like fears or phobias. Art is just another great way to

express everyone. Art doesn’t have to be always drawing or painting. It could be

anything that you put your heart into and be creative with your mind.

Art can be used for anything. For example, your emotions, just for fun or just for

some reason. For some people art helps theirs anxiety, emotions, getting their point

across or depression related. Artists across the world have used their work to channel

their feelings. Art therapy is not an uncommon solution to anxiety. There’s more under

the category of art therapy.

 For example, consider music therapy. Music is art as well. Music therapy is used for

many different issues like art therapy. It’s stress relief to mental, emotional and

behavioral problems. It has been shown to help treat depression and anxiety, and is

often used to help elderly patients or normal people dealing with memory loss

associated with disease such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. What they do is th

these variety of activities, such as listening to melodies, playing an instrument,

drumming, writing songs, and guided imagery.

But most important is art therapy. Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy involving

the encouragement of free self-expression through painting, drawing, or modeling, used

as a remedial activity or an aid to diagnosis. It can be used for people to understand

their emotional conflicts, develop social skills, improve self-esteem, manage addiction,

reduce anxiety, and restore normal function to their live.

Anything that is art related like music is another way for helping your anxiety (or

ect.). It all includes being creative and letting all your emotions out. It can help all ages

and all backgrounds can try it out. Or art can be use to just express yourself or to just

fool around with, use for entertainment. But if you need some confidence to do so. Or

someone to expired by, there are many amazing artists out there.

There’s so many artists who create beautiful pieces of work. Like for example,

Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, or Jackson Pollock, even Edvard Munch. All
these artists have a unique way to express themselves and express how the see the

world.

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Like Vincent van Gogh’s piece, “ The Starry NIght”. A famous common piece of

work. The reason for that painting was, “ history has it that Van Gogh painted “ Starry

Night’ while in the mental hospital, and that the landscape in the painting is the view

Van Gogh had from his window”. At that time of the painting, Van Gogh was committed

to a mental health asylum in Arles after the ear incident with Gaugurn. People thought

he was crazy. But all his pieces of work had meanings like the Irises or the cafe Terrace

at Night. His style was for figures, landscapes, cityscapes, and scenery. All his work

were painted. His art movement was post-impressionism. But most of all he was a great

painter/ artist.
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Another great artist was Jackson Pollock, his pieces of work were odd but unique.

He’s an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

One of his works like “ The Moon Women” , “Free Form”, or like “ The Deep”. The

meaning of one of the piece, “ The Moon Women” doesn’t really have a meaning.

Jackson was influenced by studying under the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton

and the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. These two people made Jackson

inspired to create this strange metamorphic signs making the work highly reminiscent of
the painting of Andre Masson. What his movement was abstract expressionism,

meaning it is aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the

create spontaneous act.

These artists have many ways they show how they see the world. They are so

creative and unique in their own way. Also their history explains their painting. Plus

there is a history of painters. From very long ago till now.

Through the years, art has grown to amazing pieces of work. To my opinion the

history behind art should be known because back then when art started. It caused us to

have music, art pieces, or anything art related. They made our community to be creative

and helpful. So people should know the history behind our favorite painting, sketches,

music or etc. To learn by our favorite painters.

The first artist were from a very long time ago. One of them were located in the

cave of Nerja, in Malaga, Spain. It was painted more than 42,000 years ago. No one

knows who did it exactly, just knows it’s by someone thats human. There’s not a lot of

information about these old artist years ago. Just know locations of their pieces of work

are. But very more years later.

In 1900 there were artist as well like William Merritt chose a school of design.

Alice Neel, an American visual artist who’s known for portraits depicting friends, family,
lovers, and other people. Isabel Bishop an American painter and graphic artist who

depicted urban scenes of Union square, New York. Or even Bernarda Bryson Shahn

was on American painter and lithographer.

And then 2000s. There’s not a lot of artist painters than musicians. But there’s

Peter Doig a scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters.

There’s Luc Tuymans a Belgian artist who lives and works in Antwerp. Considered one

of the most influential painters working today. Another Julie Mehretu, she's a

contemporary visual artist known for her multi-layered painting. There also more sketch

or painters in the 2000s, but that would be a whole big list of them.

Now these days 2019, there's still plenty of painters still living to this day. But not

a lot of people are artists or doesn't like to show their art skills to the world. There

should be very many more artist now because it makes our communities creative,

different. So it's important to know our past so we can learn design to use or change

them to something unique in our time. But if yourself is confident to try it out like these

artist did. You can learn how to.

To even start doing your own art or upgrade yourself with different materials that

would be great for using.

 For beginners who want to create art, they should start with sketching objects by

using graphite pencil, drawing paper, and kneaded eraser. Here are some tips to help

you make good or better art pieces. One is to know your pencils. Sketch pencils have a

certain number, from 8B-4H. 8B is the darkness pencil and 4H is the lightness color.

There is other ones like 2B or 2H. Its a scale to dark to light. B means softer and darker.

H means harder and lighter. There is a BH, that’ the middle. Best pencil to use first is

somewhere on the H side and then use the Bs for the finishing touches or darken areas.

A couple other things to know is to try different mark-making methods. Avoid

smudging, control your edges, or use a blending stick for smooth shading. Plus some

materials it you want to try out are paint, different brushes, palette, and painting papers

pads.

There are advanced art techniques that you can use if your ready for the

challenge or ready for the next step to improve your skills in art.

Some helpful technique you probably use is one, underpainting. Painting is

another way you can improve your art skills. But the underpainting is painting up from

thin to thick, especially when using slow-drying paints. Blocking in, is paint brushes. It’s

better to use all types of brushes. The key is to try to use all of them as you paint.

Another one is building up texture. Texture makes art pieces really stand out. Like have

dry, flat brush that you can use to blend your paint and create smooth transitions. A tip
for texture is to use an old toothbrush to splatter your image with paint. This can be

remarkably effective at suggesting noise and grain. A couple more techniques are dry

brushing, sgraffito, glazing or painting with mediums.

All these techniques are mostly useful for paintings. But if you want to improve your

skills to painting. These are some good techniques to use on your pieces of work. But if

you to improve more is your own art studio.

When you start doing art, you want to have your place to keep your art pieces and

materials in one place like an Art Studio. Here would be some ways you can start

building your own art studio.

To start making your art studio, you need to collect art supplies. Basics are

colored pencils, acrylic paints, sketching pencils, erasers, and sketching paper. If you

want you can get many more other types of supplies along the way. Then find an empty

closet, a spare bedroom, or any other private space with a door.it can be an attic or

basement. Make sure it’s big enough space. The bigger the better. It needs to be

enough space for inspirations and organize art supplies. Plus good lighting in the room,

natural lighting is a lot better. Make sure the room has a flat table, at least three feet

long. This can be a desk, just a table, or other. You might want to get a bright light for

your table. Need a chair/stool, anything to sit on. If you want you can put more furniture

in your art studio for decorations.

 Then you’ll be needing empty containers to put your supplies in. you can have

like a shelf or dresser to put your supplies in. but more importantly is keep it organize.

And finally decorate your room if you want too.

And that is a good start of your very own art studio. Some people actually get

studios to use, but it’s a lot easy to have them at home. Having an art studio will help

open your mind up and being creative. Since you have your own studio, you might

consider taking classes or going to college for learning even more and becoming a

master of art.

If you been doing art through your years of school or outside of school. You

probably thinking of something you can do with art, your talent. You can be able to take

colleges/ schools just for it and can get out of it with many business to work with,

animations, gaming designer, or etc. To be able to earn money by your own art pieces.

Some colleges that i suggest is best to go in New York are Stony Brook

University. It’s top 20 best value public colleges. 18: 1 student-faculty ratio. Plus it’s one

of the top 40 good public university. If you want to research more on this college go to

www.stonybrook.edu​.
 Another college called Academy of Art University. They believe theres no- barrier

admissions, a community of supports, ethics in art, learn from professionals and an

urban citizen. There’s also online education by them. They do more than just painting

and drawing. If you want to research for more go to getstarted.art.edu/art.

And one more college called school of Visual Arts. their rate of acceptance is

72%. They alumi go on to earn a starting salary of $30,000. They are #21 of 433 best

colleges for Art in America. Plus #27 of 1,553 best colleges locations in America. If for

more information go to ​www.niche.com​ and search for school of Visual Arts.

These were some of the colleges I suggest the best. There are many colleges for

art. So you have a high chance to go to any, depends when you finish college you

probably suggesting your own business.

So a cool thing about making your artwork pieces is selling them. You are able to

sell them in any price. But you need a business to continue your work or if your that type

that likes to do it all by yourself, it’s harder.

But first. Some steps for starting a business selling your own artwork. First, is

“putting your art online. If you want people to buy your art, you need to make it

available”. Second, “ putting your art into the world”. Thirds, “ sell art commissions.
Fourth, hire a professional consultant and get networking. Fifth, “ build a client base”.

And finally last thing is to know your audience, use social media.

Some good startups to selling artwork is by Amazon, ebay, deviantART,

redbubble, or etc. But there are some things to consider before selling your art. It’s

challenging experience, but it does have issues. One is don’t undersell yourself. “When

you place a price on your work, your client will value it according to how much they pay

for it. If you understand your work, the purchaser will value it accordingly”.

For example, they pay $25 for a painting. They won’t treasure it nearly as much

as they would have paid $ 250 painting. But don’t set yourself up for disappointment by

promising something you can’t deliver. Make sure to get your commission in writing, get

a deposit and have the contract signed when preparing to sell your art. Add one really

important thing is scale out legal advice.

Those were some ways or how to start selling your work. Making sure your

business continues peacefully and successfully.

Most importantly art can help us and change our few on things. Helping our

emotion, making us be creative, and create amazing things. To learn the ways to create

these amazing pieces of work like movies or music. Art is important in our lives. People

should learn and know more about it. Learning off by famous artists. Using art has a
coping skill for our emotions, helping us to heal physically or mentally. To my opinion art

is important.

Sources:

Psychcentral.com ​www.niche.com​ ​www.stonybrook.edu​.

www.anxiety.org​ getstarted.art.edu/art quicbooks.intuit.com

Legomenon.com ​www.artisnet.work.com​ m.wikihow.com

www.artpace.com​ ​www.creativebloq.com