#Your Brain on Art

[fashionofemmacdwatson]

Florida 2023 💜 Story | Instagram Post | Florida | July 9, 2023

Emma shared that she was reading “Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us” 🧠🎨 by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross ($23.99).

📸: Emma Watson

[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

Book Review: Your Brain On Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

If you are one of those people who doubts the transformative power of the arts, then read this. If you already have an idea of the link that exists between the arts and your own personal well-being, then read this.

This book talks extensively about the physiological, psychological, and biological changes that experiencing art can have on the human body and psyche and it's fascinating! It will make you re-think how you interact with or implement it into your own life.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC in exchange for my review.

3/5 stars

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[junkworldusa]

you make me want to draw again

here you go! this is also for my future self.

[theadmiringbog]

Read the following statements and circle the number that corresponds to how often they apply to you, using the following scale.

1 = Never 2 = Rarely 3 = Sometimes 4 = Often 5 = Very Often

I attend music, dance, theatre, museums, and/or digital art activities. 1 2 3 4 5

I see beauty when I look at or experience art. 1 2 3 4 5

I am emotionally moved by music. 1 2 3 4 5

I am impressed by symmetry in artistic works. 1 2 3 4 5

I sculpt, paint, draw, craft, create films/video, or design. 1 2 3 4 5

When I look at art, I feel positive energy or invigoration. 1 2 3 4 5

I write poetry, lyrics, nonfiction, and/or fiction. 1 2 3 4 5

When I view art, my heart beats faster, or I have other physical effects. 1 2 3 4 5

I appreciate the visual design of buildings and interior spaces. 1 2 3 4 5

I take (or have taken) classes in art, craft, creative writing, aesthetics, etc. 1 2 3 4 5

When making or beholding art, I experience a sense of connection and community. 1 2 3 4 5

When experiencing the arts, I feel a oneness, unity, or connectedness with the universe/​nature/​existence/​deity. 1 2 3 4 5

I am deeply moved when I look at art. 1 2 3 4 5

I experience joy, serenity, or other positive emotions when I am making or beholding art. 1 2 3 4 5

The scale is organized into three categories:

Aesthetic Appreciation is the degree to which a person is responsive to the aesthetics of experiences and of their environment.

Intense Aesthetic Experience is the degree to which a person regularly responds to aesthetic experiences in a very intense way as opposed to more commonplace forms of appreciation.

Creative Behavior represents the degree to which a person engages in creative behaviors such as art-making.

Individual scale scores: Count your score for each question below and divide by the number of questions.

Aesthetic Appreciation: Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14 _____ Divided by 8 =______

Intense Aesthetic Experience: Questions 8, 12, 13 _____ Divided by 3 =______

Creative Behavior: Questions 5, 7, 10, 11 _____ Divided by 4 =_____

Cumulative scale score: To determine your cumulative score add all fourteen of your individual question scores together and divide by 14. ______ Divided by 14 =______

Low Below Average Average Above Average High For example, you might have a 3 in Aesthetic Appreciation, a 2 in Intensive Aesthetic Experience, a 5 in Creative Behavior, and a cumulative score of 4.

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arts and aesthetic experiences will improve your health and well-being and enhance your ability to learn and flourish.

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Ivy carries tuning forks in her bag, because the resonant sound of the notes C and G combined can soothe a stressful moment.

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In a study, Girija Kaimal, assistant dean for special research initiatives and an associate professor in the creative arts therapies program at Drexel University, found that for the majority of people, making art for as little as forty-five minutes reduces the stress hormone cortisol, no matter your skill level or experience. Making art is physiologically calming.

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Stress isn’t a feeling or an emotion, rather it’s a physiological response to our emotions.

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Sound vibration has the capacity to return the body to homeostasis and out of a fight-flight-freeze reaction.

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The notes C and G, which Ivy struck with her forks that day at work, resonate with the Earth’s core frequency and are known to be soothing vibrations. These frequencies are used together all over the world because the ratio, or interval, between the notes creates a universal feeling of harmony.

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One study concluded that the frequency of blues and greens in mild hues help calm people in a work setting, reducing stress and fostering more creativity. The same study found that yellow promotes attention and focus. For some, red can be highly stimulating.

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Studies have found that coloring can have a similar physiological response in the brain as the act of meditating by reducing outside noise and allowing for focus. In one study, anxiety was measured in participants before and after they drew and colored, and their heart rate, respiration, and skin conductance were measured throughout. The results found all physical indicators of anxiety reduced when coloring, and that perceptions of anxiety lowered as well.

[hellspawnmotel]

intimacy between an evil spiteful building-sized supercomputer and the lone scientist left behind after everyone else ditched and forgot about her (in which computer wants to kill scientist really bad but her programming wont let her so she just attempts to make her as miserable as possible instead, which also doesn't work because scientist is a freak)

[noodles-and-tea]

twins in time continuation of that blue doodle comic thingy, but fidd is forced to take care of stan when Ford gets into the portal stuff, leaving him behind.

I reckon he teaches him math…

[anitosoul]

(via Your Brain on Art)

[heynhay]

stuck with you

[drawerbread]

always your sword, my umbral sovereign

(finished rereading htn and i am not afraid to admit that it made me bawl like a baby… again)

[ionomycin]

Forest Guardians

[bixels]

Just gonna have to wait and see, right? Just wait and see! Just gotta wait and see! Who knows, we'll just have to wait and see! It's anybody's guess, we'll just have to wait and see! The future is exciting, we just gotta wait and see!

[dirtgrubber]

it feels good. it feels right.

@morningstarwrites thankyou for this weeks chapter. i’m not crying… You’re crying

[seafoamdew]

I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.

[luckyplushy]

@patricia-taxxon

After playing the game, I immediately thought how it feel for Rambley to be projected upon a wall, engulfing the person outside. How it would feel to be so close to touching the other, but yet not. I wonder.

[midnight-the-goth-artist]

@chloesimaginationthings FNAF movie art makes me go insane/pos

Especially the theory that Garrett will posses the Marionette in the FNAF 2 movie,

Inspired by their original art post, I redrew it in my art style!

I do but don’t want this to happen-

I want it to bc ANGST but also give my boi Mike a break 😭

[noodles-and-tea]

what if Ford and bill but Arthur and John?

I’ve only listened to a few episodes so far but this is a really cool idea….