Art therapy and fine art

 

many of us in childhood were told that we can not draw (Is it possible not to believe adult, intelligent people?). In fact, the process of drawing is natural for each person, a potential graphic artist, a painter or sculptor is inside each of us. Drawing helps to find a harmonious state of a person's inner world and to understand it. In art therapy sessions surprise (“I can do it!”) is gradually replaced by enthusiasm and creativity. Sometimes art therapy even leads a person to understanding that art is his vocation. But most of all it allows you to remove the internal tension, brush aside problems and “put them in place”

 

 

As you know, right cerebral hemisphere is responsible for our emotions and left one is responsible for rationality. When we think how to respond to the questions raised by life, those engaged in our left hemisphere. Sometimes we find ourselves in a vicious circle, aggression or apathy emerge, different diseases develop. In this case, it is important to engage right hemisphere, to distract brain from excessive concentration on the problems that seem global and intractable. Art therapy appeals to emotions forcing right hemisphere to work actively. And it allows a patient to find a new perspective on the current situation contributing to its solution and patient's recovery.

 

 

Normal school lesson and art therapy class set themselves different tasks. The main objective of a school is to teach while art therapy pursues a goal of emancipating mind. Art therapy employs methods that are ordinary for the Russian school of drawing only at its 2nd stage. Partly because of the fact that calculations and ratios force our left “rational” hemisphere to work, that at the initial stage does not correspond to the task. Art therapeutic exercises designed to help patient to cross the threshold within his consciousness so that he could hear and feel the wisdom of intuition in himself. Thus, engaging in art therapy a person learns too, but not as we used to it.

 

 

Initially, an outcome is achieved through special exercises, namely drawing “in the air”, quick writing characters like hieroglyphics etc. in which a person realizes that he can actually draw, opens a new world vision.

 

            ● developing mutual coordination of hands and eyes,

            ● enhancing ability to see what is directly in front of him,

            ● improving capacity for visual thinking.

 

Means of art therapy promotes mental emancipation of the patient that has a corresponding therapeutic effect.
 

 

            ● activity level,

            ● predominance of rational or emotional,

            ● extrovercy or introversion,

            ● sexuality,

            ● level of general mental development.

On this basis therapist can determine which psychological type patient belongs to which helps to further treatment.

 

 

Very important factor in implementing art therapy is that art therapy allows to use a process of painting to control dynamics of the psychological state of a person and, therefore, to correct the problems.

 

 

The first session of art therapy is largely a test. According to its results a patient is recommended certain type of activity that will best facilitate the solution of specific problems. One can paint watercolors, the other sculpts sculpture. Activity may vary in the course of training.

 

 

Sessions can be held in any form depending on individual characteristics and wishes of the person who is going to do art therapy.