Robert Motherwell was a young American ‘Abstract Expressionist’ painter, printer, collage maker, and author. Art Exhibition is a place in which art objects can be seen by an audience. Expositions may present pictures, drawings, video, sound, installation, performance, interactive art, new media art or sculptures by individual artists, groups of artists or collections of a specific form of art. The art works may be presented in museums, art halls, art clubs or private art galleries, or at some place the principal business of which is not the display or sale of art, such as a coffeehouse. An important distinction is noted between those exhibits where some or all of the works are for sale, normally in private art galleries, and those where they are not. Sometimes the event is organized on a specific occasion, like a birthday, anniversary or commemoration. Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States (organized by Sidney Janis and the San Francisco Museum of Art, CA). Traveled to the Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, 8 February – 12 March 1944; Denver Art Museum, CO, 26 March – 23 April 1944; Seattle Art Museum, WA, 7 May – 10 June 1944; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, June – July 1944; San Francisco Museum of Art, CA, 6 – 24 July 1944. Catalogue with text by Sidney Janis. Traveled with separate catalogue by Sidney Janis published as Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, New York, 1944, to Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, 29 November – 30 December 1944. Komoriya, Y., Aluwi, N., Ono, Y., Kishikawa, M., Hirano, T., & Sekiguchi, M. (2015). Pleasant music increases cardiac autonomic responses both in young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typical development. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, 192, 81-82. However, we don’t always listen to music to be moved – sometimes people use music for other effects. For example, many people listen to music to help them concentrate or do better in a demanding cognitive task. In spite of this, it is suspected that many of the cognitive benefits people experience from music listening actually stem from its effects on emotions, because positive affect can improve cognitive performance. So even though you might not be selecting for music that induces the chills†effect but just something to help you get stuff done, the way that music strums your emotions may still be at the root of why it helps. Thorough understanding of the connections between the emotional and physiological effects of music listening and health requires more study because the context for the emotional effects of music listening on individuals are so varied. Large-scale data on listening, performance and context would be needed to identify bigger patterns in the connections between music, emotions, and cognitive performance.
