American contemporary artist, Jasper Johns, Jr., was born on May 15, 1930, in Augusta, Georgia. Each method is tried, tested, and proven as a good source of income by artists everywhere. To follow this artist and get updates on new work & exclusives, you must be signed into your Artspace account. Don’t have one? Create one now. In celebration of Black History Month, N4th Gallery proudly presents the exhibit Henry Kennison: Starting Over. Kennison is a native of New Orleans who survived eight long days with his neighbors in the toxic flood waters from Hurricane Katrina and like so many survivors, lost everything on that traumatic first day. Following his rescue and much confusion Kennison was sent to Albuquerque. Since his arrival in September of 2006, he has been continually denied assistance from FEMA. Despite all of these setbacks, Henry continues to persevere and create artwork. Starting Over is the story of Katrina, of one man’s surviving creative spirit and of people helping people. The three-dimensional quality of the work is striking. Since it is suspended, one can view it from all sides. This is fibre sculpture in the round. Found objects retain their local colour. Texture is important in the work. One can feel the difference between rope, nets, and branches. Culture in music cognition refers to the impact that a person’s culture has on their music cognition, including their preferences, emotion recognition, and musical memory. Musical preferences are biased toward culturally familiar musical traditions beginning in infancy, and adults’ classification of the emotion of a musical piece depends on both culturally specific and universal structural features. Additionally, individuals’ musical memory abilities are greater for culturally familiar music than for culturally unfamiliar music. The sum of these effects makes culture a powerful influence in music cognition. People tend to prefer and remember music from their own cultural tradition. Ethnomusicologists, people who study the relationship between music and culture, never truly understand the music of the culture that they are studying, even if they spend years of their lives with that culture, they never really understand. Listening to slow, quiet classical music, is proven to reduce stress. Numerous studies and experiments have shown that anyone can experience relaxing effects of music, including newborns. One of the unique benefits of music as a stress reliever is that it can be used while you do your normal daily activities, so that it really doesn’t take extra time. Music can help release a cocktail of hormones that have a positive effect on us: oxytocin, endorphin, serotonin and dopamine. Besides the pleasure we get from it, music can be used to prolong efficiency and reduce anxiety.
Armstrong, Tom and Susan C. Larsen.Minimalism and Reductive Abstraction.†Art in Place – Fifteen Years of Acquisitions. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989: 154-155, 211. Lipe, A.W., Ward, K.C., Watson, A.T., Manley, K., Keen, R., Kelly, J., & Clemmer, J. (2012). The effects of an arts intervention program in a community mental health setting: A collaborative approach. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 39(1), 25-30. Stanczyk, M.M. (2014). Effect of relaxation music on the emotional state of radiotherapy cancer patients. Radiotherapy and Oncology, 111(S112). Yevgeniy Fiks opens his exhibition, Andy Warhol and the Pittsburgh Labor Files under the subtitle Capitalism or Socialism? , at the Warhol Museum on October 10. The show features documentary evidence the artist has gathered about left-wing political, economic, and artistic life in Pittsburgh which occured during the early years of Warhol’s life. Exhibited on the seventh floor of the museum, the show runs until 10 January 2016. These affordances in music are worthy of consideration with respect to the high levels of physical inactivity among adults in the developed world (Wen et al., 2011). The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2011) recommends we complete a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise every week (for example, 30 minutes brisk walking on 5 days of the week). Unfortunately, few adults achieve this level of physical activity and, as a result, are at high risk of chronic ill health such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes (Haskell et al., 2007). Music during exercise leads to improved exercise experience and performance (Karageorghis & Priest, 2012a; 2012b). Theorists suggest that these benefits from music listening during exercise also have the potential to increase exercise participation and adherence (Karageorghis, 2008), which may therefore improve compliance with physical acitity guidlines. However, evidence supporting the notion of changes in exercise behaviour as a result of music listening is limited (Clark et al., 2016; Karageorghis, 2008) (Figure 2). Lichtenstein took this image from an actual strip-cartoon, drawn by Irv Novick in 1962 for a publication entitled All-American Men of War†that was published by DC Comics. He has therefore been accused of plagiarism in his work – not only here but in other works – but in his defence it could be said that many artists down the centuries have done similar things by taking an existing image and presenting it to a different public in a novel way. That was certainly how Lichtenstein himself defended his work.
Keith, D.R., Russell, K., & Weaver, B.S. (2008). The effects of music listening on inconsolable crying in premature infants. Journal of Music Therapy, 46(3), 191-203. Often referrals for music therapy are made because patients lack motivation for therapy and have low mood. Our colleagues assume that music will be motivating, improve mood, and offer creative ways to achieve rehabilitation goals. They are right. From a clinical perspective we frequently see our patients experience these benefits from music therapy. However, we have also conducted a number of research projects investigating the effects of music and music therapy on physical health and emotional wellbeing. Summaries of some of our relevant music therapy research projects are presented to illustrate how music can improve the health of people with significant health conditions. Popular Music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. It stands in contrast to both Art Music and traditional or Folk Music Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through recordings. Traditional music forms such as early Blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller, local audiences. Miller, Jo. Eighteenth National Print Exhibition. Exh. cat. New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1973. Silverman, M.J. (2013). Effects of group songwriting on depression and quality of life in acute psychiatric inpatients: a randomized three group effectiveness study. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 22(2), 131-148. These initial study results, published in the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, provide evidence of the benefits of music education at a time when many schools around the nation have either eliminated or reduced music and arts programs. The study shows music instruction speeds up the maturation of the auditory pathway in the brain and increases its efficiency. Art Basel international art fair staged annually in Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach, Florida; and Hong Kong, selling the works of established and emerging artists. The commercial fairs also offer parallel programming produced in collaboration with the host city’s local institutions. While Art Basel provides a platform for galleries to show and sell their work to buyers, it also attracts a large international audience of art spectators and students. Yet while this declaration has the ring of certainty, that does not mean he had everything figured out. In many of his early drawings, a sense of striving is almost palpable: All wound up, they are the sticky chrysalis before the canvases emerged, fully formed, cool and collected, in the early 1950s. The central issues that Reinhardt’s ultimate†paintings elegantly resolve are alive in the early works as fascinating, snarled problems: What to do about color? About the ethics of representation? About biomorphic abstraction and Surrealism? About scale? And, most critically: What to do about drawing? The recurring questions of these early works would become the laconic statements of his blue, red, and black paintings.
