Learning With Children, Trees, and Art: For a Compositionist Visual Art-Based Research

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

Art-Based Assessments With Formal Visual Elements

The Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) provides a theoretical model for art-based assessments and applications of media in art therapy. The three levels of the ETC (Kinesthetic/ Sensory, Perceptual/Affective, and Cognitive/Symbolic) appear to reflect different functions and structures in the brain that process visual and affective information. Assessment of the formal elements in an artwork c...

O13: Art Therapy and PTSD in Children

PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder is one of the most important psychological disorders in children in which symptoms such as anxiety and depression can be seen. Beside the strategies like CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and psychotherapy art therapy is one of the most important strategies which can help to children with PTSD to cope with this disorder. According to art therapy studies ...

Art for reward's sake: Visual art recruits the ventral striatum

A recent study showed that people evaluate products more positively when they are physically associated with art images than similar non-art images. Neuroimaging studies of visual art have investigated artistic style and esthetic preference but not brain responses attributable specifically to the artistic status of images. Here we tested the hypothesis that the artistic status of images engages...

Art and music research

In taxonomies of Western knowledge, ‘art’ and ‘music’ are grouped conventionally within a cluster of disciplines labeled ‘humanities’. Research on art and music, however, encompasses a wider array of disciplines and interdisciplinary fi elds. Music research also spans natural sciences (e.g. acoustics, physiology), formal sciences (mathematics, computing), and social sciences (psychology, sociol...