Jackson Pollock, a great American painter of the 20th century, established a distinct way of painting that produced a major impact on the world of art. Drumming is typically a group exercise. The therapist offers various kinds of drums to patients, and they play together with or without accompanying music. The therapist uses drumming to not only get patients involved in their therapy but also to help them engage with each other. Drumming is especially helpful for people who have difficulty communicating in a social situation, such as people with autism. The drum beats give them a way to interact with others on a nonverbal level. Chang, Y.S., Chu, H., Yang, C.Y., Tsai, J.C., Chung, M.H., Liao, Y.M., Chi, M.J., Liu, M.F. & Chou, K.R. (2015). The efficacy of music therapy for people with dementia: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(23-24), 3425-3440. Kleiber, C., & Adamek, M.S. (2013). Adolescents’ perceptions of music therapy following spinal fusion surgery. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 22(3-4), 414-422. Cast paper technique. Wood pulp was cast inside real shells to create the paper ones in the piece. Large sheets of wet paper were draped over the raised shapes. They were left to dry in place. James Somerville became a full-time artist in 1990. Since then he has participated regularly the RSA and RSW annual exhibitions and has had several solo art shows in the UK. His paintings have also shown at Art Fairs in London, Barcelona and New York. Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) is considered by many to be among the leading artists associated with “The Golden Age of Illustration” (a period that is typically placed between the 1880s and the 1930s). Beginning November 13, 2015, the Mobile Museum of Art will present an exhibition expanding on a theme introduced in the museum’s first floor exhibition, 150 Years of American Art (ca. 1795- 1945). While that exhibition provides a visual narrative of emerging American identity as seen through art, this exhibition features art and decorative arts created since World War II, as American art emerged as a major force in the global art world. Tom Watt paintings are to be found in the art collections of The Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank, West Lothian District Council, the Sutherland Regional Authority, PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Boland Limited as well as in many private art collections throughout the UK, France, Germany and Canada. An Exhibition by 7 Artists. Exh. cat. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1969. Quintin, E. M., Bhatara, A., Poissant, H., Fombonne, E., & Levitin, D. J. (2011). Emotion perception in music in high-functioning adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(9), 1240-1255.
Kodali, H., & Kumar, R. (2014). A single case study on effect of music therapy to reduce stress levels in a cancer patient. International Journal of Scientific Research, 3(2), 519-520. Palette – Every serious artist needs a palette but no need to buy an artist one that costs money and will do the same job as recycled ideas or cheaper options. Old Tupperware lids, paper plates, large 10 litre house paint containers and yogurt lids are just a few of the many other ideas I have used. Anything with a flat surface and a variety of sizes is always useful. Thorough cleaning before using is obviously a given. 7. Hofmann often illustrated his lectures with diagrams of the compositional structure and movement in paintings by Piero della Francesca, Giotto, and Rembrandt, as well as Cézanne, Picasso, Braque, and other moderns. Maddah, L., Maddahi, M.E., & Sodagar, S. (2013). Determine the effectiveness of music therapy on the level of aggression in preschoolers. Journal of Social Issues & Humanities, 1(7), 333-335. Herskovic, Marika, ed. American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey, with Artists’ Statements, Artwork and Biographies (includes artist’s statements). New York: New York School Press, 2003. This leads us to the heart of the issue in looking at Reinhardt’s early works on paper—what the artist, following the prompting of interviewer Bruce Glaser in 1966, defined as the drawing problem.†Reinhardt went on to say that his cartoon collages were a way of not drawing and a satire on all kinds of drawing, art manners, and devices. When I was a newspaper staff artist I didn’t do any drawing at all one year. All I did was paste up nineteenth-century engravings from a small collection of clippings.â€â· So it was a way of working out your drawing problems, in the newspapers,†said Glaser, to which Reinhardt responded, Once and for all.â€â¸ In other words, drawing—or figuring out how not to—was a central issue in Reinhardt’s oeuvre from the beginning. Wow John, thank you for the gallery tour. I love art, and artists and knowing about them. I have never heard of any of the McCubbin family of artists. The MFA Handbook: A Guide to the Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Entry Hans Hofmann,†p. 367. Rev. ed. Boston: MFA Publications, 2009. Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow (organized by Gagosian Gallery). Insight? 19 – 28 October 2007. Catalogue. Vogiatzoglou, A., Ockelford, A., Welch, G., & Himonides, E. (2011). Sounds of intent: Interactive software to assess the musical development of children and young people with complex needs. Music and Medicine, 3(3), 189-195.
Ellsworth Kelly. Recent Painting & Sculpture. Exh. cat. New York: 65 Thompson Street, 1990. Thomas Nozkowski: New Drawings, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, February 8-February 26, 1983. Rosa Bonheur was already an established and successful artist, when she first exhibited “The Horse Fair” at the Paris Salon of 1853. However, none of her earlier work was admired in quite the same way as this large-scale oil painting with its lively and characterful depiction of horses at a horse fair in France. It quickly became a very popular image, and was exhibited in Paris, Ghent, and Bordeaux, England and the United States. Since being acquired by MOMA in 1887 it has become one of the Metropolitan Museum’s best-known works of art. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a music therapy internship distance course. The course was designed to increase communication and information dissemination between a music therapy academic program and its interns during internship, increase intern awareness of information aiding transition from intern to professional, and to allow internship in-depth information to be archived for viewing by future music therapy pre-internship students from the academic program. The course requirements included six Monthly Reports and four specific Assignments. Interns were pre-informed that the course Monthly Reports and Assignments would be archived for future pre-internship student viewing. For this study analysis, all Monthly Reports and Assignments were filtered to remove identifying information of the interns, the internship sites, and the internship supervisors. The filtered Monthly Reports and Assignments were from eight interns at eight different internship sites in 5 different states over the course of 9 months. Word count and content of the filtered Monthly Reports and Assignments were analyzed by the Linguistics Inquiry Word Count (LIWC2007) program (Pennebaker, Booth, & Francis, 2007). Results indicated that: (a) all Monthly Reports and Assignments were turned in within the required time frames, indicating a noteworthy increase in communications between the intern and the academic program; (b) One intern’s unique Monthly reporting style resulted in a significantly greater amount of information; (c) Linguistic inquiry revealed significant intern gains in Positive over Negative Emotions, Insight, Social Competency over Anxiety; and Achievement; (d) Information from the Monthly Reports and Assignments will leave a rich amount of information for future interns. Future course revisions as a result of the information learned from this study are discussed.
Murphy, K.M. (2015). Music Therapy in Addictions Treatment. In B. L. Wheeler (Ed.), Music Therapy Handbook (pp. 364-366). New York; London: Guilford Press. Negative Space: The unoccupied or empty space left after the positive shapes have been placed by the artist. The early years of the 20th century were characterized in the visual arts by a radical international reassessment of the relationship between vision and representation, as well as of the social and political role of artists in society at large. The extraordinary modern collection at the Yale University Art Gallery spans these years of dramatic change and features rich holdings in abstract painting by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Wassily Kandinsky, as well as in paintings and sculptures associated with German Expressionism, Russian Constructivism, De Stijl, Dada, and Surrealism. Many of these works came to Yale in the form of gifts and bequests from important American collections, including those of Molly and Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940s; Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, B.A. 1929; Katharine Ordway; and John Hay Whitney. Since October of 2009, music therapy services have been provided to premature infants in a 25-bed NICU located in the southeastern region of the U.S. Services have not been provided for infants younger than 27 weeks post corrected age (PCA) because additional research is needed to determine whether music therapy will be beneficial or contraindicated for this vulnerable population (infants 25-27 weeks PCA who weigh less than two pounds). Only two researchers have used music with infants 26 weeks PCA and older, but there was not a lot of information regarding the number of infants who were 26 weeks PCA or receiving ventilator assistance at the time of music therapy. This zoo has paintings by various species, available intermittently, but not at the time of this writing. All profits go to assisting the zoo to build new enclosures. Lanovaz, M.J., Sladeczek, I.E., & Rapp, J.T. (2012). Effects of noncontingent music on vocal stereotypy and toy manipulation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Behavioral Interventions, 27(4), 207-223. Smith, Roberta. Is Painting Small The Next Big Thing?†The New York Times, 19 April 2008: B7, B11. Joan Miró’s artwork graces many museums around the world and is also in numerous private collections of people who can afford his prices. He has created unique, eyecatching colorful sculptures and also paints and creates works of art on paper. My husband and I were fortunate enough to be able to visit the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Spain, during the summer Olympics back in 1992, where we saw a vast collection of his works.
Rhythmâ€, by its simplest definition reflects the dynamics of musical time. The origin of the perception of rhythm can be traced back to the heartbeat that a child receives in the womb. The socio-behavioural impact of rhythm is said to be manifested in dance designed to boost our energy levels in order to cope with a fight or flight response. It can be said that perceiving rhythm is the ability to master the otherwise invisible dimension, time. An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery explores the fifty-year career of singer-songwriter Mick Jagger and the iconic rock band, The Rolling Stones. Also called a biographical outline, a chronology is often included in artist monographs, solo exhibition catalogues, and catalogues raisonnés. Many formats are possible. In writing a chronology, it is important to decide on a particular approach and then use it consistently. It is also helpful to decide what kinds of information to include and exclude. If there is limited space, information readily at hand elsewhere in the volume (for example, in an exhibition history) as well as material of secondary importance may easily be omitted. The intention of a chronology is primarily to trace the artist’s development, not necessarily to list all of the artist’s accomplishments and activities. Stuart Buchanan generally works in the traditional medium of oils. His paintings are representational, with figures set in richly textured, colourful ambiguous landscapes. His work depicts images of figures, usually imagined and anonymous, in painterly landscapes. He seeks to invoke a positive response in the viewer, be it a smile or the triggering of a personal memory, via strangely familiar scenes, reminiscent almost of snapshots or memories in a personal history. An imaging experiment in 2001 by Anne Blood and Zatorre of McGill sought to better specify the brain regions involved in emotional reactions to music. This study used mild emotional stimuli, those associated with people’s reactions to musical consonance versus dissonance. Consonant musical intervals are generally those for which a simple ratio of frequencies exists between two tones. An example is middle C (about 260 hertz, or Hz) and middle G (about 390 Hz). Their ratio is 2:3, forming a pleasant-sounding perfect fifth interval when they are played simultaneously. In contrast, middle C and C sharp (about 277 Hz) have a complex ratio of about 17:18 and are considered unpleasant, having a rough sound. Daykin, N. (2007). Context, Culture and Risk: Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Music in Health Care Settings. In J. Edwards (Ed.), Music: Promoting Health and Creating Community in Healthcare Contexts (pp. 83-104). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
