Art and Medicine. Do you have sense of art?! (A) Dance (B) Swear (C) Direct traffic (D) Embrace.

Art and Medicine

Do you have sense of art?!

(A) Dance(B) Swear(C) Direct traffic(D) Embrace

(A) Park(B) Mountains(C) Patchwork(D) Camping

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Do you have sense of art?!

(A)Competition(B) Nightmare(C) Stress(D)Refuge

Do you have sense of art?!

Who is Paul Klee?

• Swiss or German?• Influenced by

expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.

• reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

VOCABULARY

• disfigure 　損毀…的外形；毀容

• genuine 　真的；名副其實的 • humanistic 　人性的；人道 ( 文 ) 主義的• intrinsic 　固有的；本身的 • interpretation 　理解；解釋；說明 • deteriorate 　惡化；退化 • psychoanalytic 　精神分析的 ; 心理分析的 • immediate 　直接的• stabbing 　突然而劇烈的；刀刺似的

• Measles 　麻疹

• exhaustion 　筋疲力盡；疲憊不堪

• arthritic 　患關節炎的；關節炎引起的

• exertion 　努力；盡力；費力 • trigger 　發動；引起；觸發 • exacerbation 　惡化 ; 加劇 • well-being 　健康；安樂；康樂 • convalesce 　 逐步康復；恢復 • sanitarium 　療養院；休養所 • necropsy 　驗屍 ; 屍體檢驗 • cremate 　火葬 • taut 　拉緊的；繃緊的 • contracture 　【醫】攣縮

• dyspnoea 　【醫】呼吸困難

• What is Scleroderma?

Scleroderma

Scleroderma

• “sclero” meaning hard, and “derma” meaning skin.

• Chronic hardening and contraction of the skin and connective tissue and classified as one of the autoimmune rheumatic diseases

• Either locally or through out the body

Scleroderma

Scleroderma

• Want to know more? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleroderma Orhttp://www.scleroderma.org/medical/overview.shtm

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

• Paul Klee, whose abstract paintings having strength in composition and reminding us of cartoons or sketches done by children, often emphasized the chosen subject in a simple and amusing way.

• Recent critical interpretation of his contribution takes into social and political factor of his period.

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

Phrase!

• take something into consideration– The candidates' experience and qualifications will

be taken into consideration when the decision is made.

• Although his productivity declined soon after the diagnosis of scleroderma, Klee adapted his style and managed to produce more than 1000 works in the last years of his life. Many of these are regarded as immediate expression of his disease.

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

• According to Klee’s diary from he was 19 to 39, he was healthy except for “stabbing headache”.

• Despite heavy consumption of alcohol and tobacco……

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

• What kind of lifestyle is mentioned in the article?

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

Bohemian

A resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic.

• Klee left no written account of his personal feelings during the progression of the disease.

• Letters written since 1933 suggest the presence of Raynaud's syndrome -a vasospastic disorder causing discoloration of the fingers, toes…, and also cause nails to become brittle with longitudinal ridges.

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

Progression of his disease: Non-specific symptoms: fatigue and exhaustion Measles Dyspnoea or exertion and arthritic pain in his hands

Scleroderma(1936)

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

• In Febuary, 1940, Klee had a major exhibition where showed more than 200 works, which was not well received by public.

• In May, Klee went to convalesce at sanitarium, and then admitted to Sant’Agnes hospital.

• In June, Klee died of acute heart failure. But his medical records were destroyed by a fire at the hospital.

Detailed state of his illness became a mystery.

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

• A photograph of Klee, taken 4 months before his death, shows some of typical skin abnormalities of scleroderma.

• Klee’s last drawings was entitled Durchhalten! (Endure!) which shows a wholly disfigured face resembling the photographs of the artist.

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

• How the author describe the skin abnormalities showing in photograph of Klee?

Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art

Frontal linear scleroderma

Durchhalten! (Endure!)

Artists with Brain Damagean area connected with forming mental images

started painting in a more abstract style

a region affecting creativity

began to paint more realistically and with brighter colors

left temporal lobe changed long-established artistic habits or unlocked a previously unknown creative impulse

left hemisphere hindered the ability to paint in an abstract or representational manner

Artist with Mental DisorderVincent Willem van Gogh Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Clockwise? Counterclockwise?

Vacabulary• Portrait-a likeness of a person, esp. of the face, as a painting,

drawing, or photograph.• fMRI-functional magnetic resonance imaging, a technique that

directly measures the blood flow in the brain, thereby providing information on brain activity.

• Signature-a distinctive characteristic.• Conned-to be learned; studied; perused or examined carefully.• Scrutiny-a searching examination or investigation.• Bach Chorale-a .• Score-a written or printed piece of music with all the vocal and

instrumental parts arranged on staves, one under the other.• Render-• Salient-

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Dictionary.com

• Philistine• Turner prize

Angela De La Cruz, Stuck (2010)

The region around 830 BC

Artists are born or made? What do you think?

“You can work and work and work, but if you don’t have it inborn, then it’s a hopeless pursuit.”

-Woody Allen"There is no question in my mind that artists are born. Those who have less talented can be a follower or technician. But will never have the vision of a Van Gogh or someone who's a real innovator."

—Nancy Locke

Artists Really Do Have Different Brains• Humphrey Ocean’s brain was scanned by fMRI

during drawing, which monitors activity in different parts of his brain.

• There were activities in his occipital lobe and frontal lobe, which was not seen when non-artists carried out the task.

• Artists uses their brain to “think” a drawing while the rest of us merely copy the material.

Do you have talent for art?

There’s a cluck clock in your house for decades, and it suddenly broke down. When you see the clock, what position do you think the pointers will be?

A. the integral pointB. one on top of anotherC. the right angleD. none of above

Cerebellum has something to do with music?

• The cerebellum is normally associated only with movement and balance. However, the scan showed a sudden burst of activity in it while the rhythm of chorale was altered from the score.

Music Improves Brain Function?

• Do you play any instruments?

• How does it affects your life?

Analysis performed by Levitin

• When we listen to a song, our ears send signals not only to the auditory cortex, the region of the brain that processes the sound, but also straight to the cerebellum.

• When a song begins, the cerebellum, which keeps time in the brain, "synchronizes" itself to the beat.

• Part of the pleasure we find in music is the result of something like a guessing game that the brain then plays with itself as the beat continues.

• The cerebellum attempts to predict where beats will occur. • Music sounds exciting when our brains guess the right beat.

Artists Look Different

Summery

• Both of them spent more time looking at key areas.• Non-artists tend to focus on certain objects such as

human faces during the experiment, while well-trained artists prefer scanning the whole picture. As a result, artists will remember more details.

• Non-artists remember more in abstract pictures because artists won’t change their viewing strategy.