The power of art:
In part one of chapter 2, the author uses a personal experience to lead into the topic of the power of art. When the author was in junior high, she was put into the "dumb classes" and this resulted in her not going to school regularly. Her mom went to the school. but the school did not listen to her at the time. Her mom decided to send her to a Saturday art class. Kaplan went to these classes every Saturday and this began her life as a painter and an art therapist. Her teacher at the Saturday classes, Mrs. Long, believed "that a supportive emotional environment was essential to the creation of art- that no child's art should be criticized but only praised, and that they teaching of technique was not only unimportant but hindered or even stopped the child's creativity entirely. " (Kaplan, 44) Kaplan was convinced that Mrs. Long was an art therapist, but she did not call herself that. When Kaplan became an artist and a art therapist, she realized her clients drew more landscapes instead of people; Kaplan drew people when she was in the Saturday classes to help her express her thoughts and emotions.
With social change, music is a type of art that the entire country is connected too. The image of music and art has the power to shape the view of society. An example Kaplan uses in Andy Warhol's soup can piece shows society what is important to perceive, but also hard to bear.
Art therapy has the power to show a person's interior landscape of what was, what is, and what might be. Art therapy helps people by starting with one landscape and when the person is making progress, the landscape changes along with their behavior.
In part one of chapter 2, the author uses a personal experience to lead into the topic of the power of art. When the author was in junior high, she was put into the "dumb classes" and this resulted in her not going to school regularly. Her mom went to the school. but the school did not listen to her at the time. Her mom decided to send her to a Saturday art class. Kaplan went to these classes every Saturday and this began her life as a painter and an art therapist. Her teacher at the Saturday classes, Mrs. Long, believed "that a supportive emotional environment was essential to the creation of art- that no child's art should be criticized but only praised, and that they teaching of technique was not only unimportant but hindered or even stopped the child's creativity entirely. " (Kaplan, 44) Kaplan was convinced that Mrs. Long was an art therapist, but she did not call herself that. When Kaplan became an artist and a art therapist, she realized her clients drew more landscapes instead of people; Kaplan drew people when she was in the Saturday classes to help her express her thoughts and emotions.
With social change, music is a type of art that the entire country is connected too. The image of music and art has the power to shape the view of society. An example Kaplan uses in Andy Warhol's soup can piece shows society what is important to perceive, but also hard to bear.
Art therapy has the power to show a person's interior landscape of what was, what is, and what might be. Art therapy helps people by starting with one landscape and when the person is making progress, the landscape changes along with their behavior.
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