There are many service users that use social care services and for those who have an interest in creativity and the arts all activities can be adapted to suit their abilities. Dementia and Alzheimer’s: Creativity and the arts bring about a non-verbal, interactive way of communication which is helpful to those suffering with dementia. Dementia describes multiple problems that lead to brain cell damage. Some major symptoms of dementia disease are: memory loss, difficulties with language and finding
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Similarities – Both Velaszquez and Freud’s works fall under the nature of female reclining nude. Using oil paint on canvas, both artists have worked to embody classical elements such as drapery and furnishing to evoking the relaxed mood, felt in both paintings. In terms of physical composition, both figures appear in the middle of the canvas as to highlight that they are the central focus of the painting. Differences – Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, depicts a far more contemporary
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Most believe a photograph is worth a thousand words, as almost everyone recognizes the impressive ability photographs have to describe, explain, and express ideas and messages. Yet, Susan Sontag claims photography is detrimental to the world’s ability to think and dictate its emotions. However, Sontag’s claim that photography limits our understanding of the world is untrue, as photography is the only form of communication that can fully express every possible sentiment around the world, regardless
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considered an artist Snoop Dogg is a music artist that does it very different in his way but many say what he does should not be considered a work of art. Well now what he does he is good at and others actually many like what he does so it should be considered a piece of art that's the only thing that find hard to understand. He may do his art in a negative way sometimes but in the end he makes people realize that the point he is trying to address could actually try to help by dealing with the
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People like to express their way of viewing the environment and its different living organisms in many ways. As scrolling through the link giving I came upon an art piece that quite caught my attention. Why might you ask yourself it caught my attention? For starters the luminous colors the painting has are very other there. They blend in so well the way the color I want to say lime green goes to yellow Is just so beautiful, I think the artist who drew this was inspired by those Poison dart frogs
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In this video we take a look at Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #21 1978, this work of art is called a film still and is made to look like one however it is actually a photo using Gelatin Silver print. This is only one piece in a series of 69 self-portraits that Sherman did over a number of years, this film still is one of her earliest ones. Most people don’t even realize that the women in this photo is actually Cindy Sherman herself, most of this series of photos is of her in different clothes
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Dance Like Nobody's Watching Have you ever seen a beautiful painting that you wish would come to life? Dance is a painting that comes to life in many different styles. Hey y’all its Emmy Kay and I am a 7th grader at Dawson Middle school. I am also a dancer at Eminence Dance Complex in Roanoke, Texas. When I dance I feel so at peace and can forget all the stresses of the day. I love to dance, and I have been dancing since I was two years old. Whenever I am asked which style is my favorite, I
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Critics and culture have observed Spring Breakers to be a trashy film due to its lack of contribution to art. Why is this the case? More importantly who gets to decide whether or not, a film is ‘good’ or ‘bad’? As Foucault (1978, p. 100-1, as cited in Mills, 2004, p. 40) explains, Discourses are not once and for all subservient to power or raised up against it, any more than silences are […] Discourse transmit and produces power; it reinforces it, but also undermines it and exposes it, renders it
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From the depictions of horses and other animals inside the Chauvet Caves, which date back more than 28,000 years ago, to the millions of artists of all mediums, art is an essential part of being human. It was created before written language in 3,400 BCE, and before agriculture in about 8,000 BCE, showing just how natural the desire to create art is for humanity (“Human History Timeline - Combined Timeline”). While it has evolved many times throughout history, the style, purpose, and subjects change though
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In the movie shower we have seen a change in moral and societal values. It shows that the current state of the Chinese culture is under reconstruction; a turn to modernization and new technology. Where traditions were once cherished they are slowly being abandoned; which the director decides to show simply through the bathhouse and its everyday activities. There are changes made, they are forced to close the bathhouse for the sake of commercial property. In this the story is put old and new against
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