art reflects emotions(part of my therapy)

Does art express emotions?

As we have seen, an artwork can tell stories or depict ideas; it can be realistic or abstract. However, for some people, the most important issue in art is that it expresses or stirs emotions. Art can be a record of what the artist is feeling and, at the same time, it can bring about emotional reactions in the viewer. In the 20th century, this type of art has been called Expressionist Art. There are expressionistic features within many different art styles and movements. Artists make choices about color, line, texture, and composition to evoke or express feelings. Sometimes this leads to abstracting a subject to make it more expressive. 

The Following sketches was sketched by my own hand. I have started using my sketching as part of my therapy, it sort of way to release my feelings.





Girl playing guitar





angle on cloud

Art 
as 
Philosophy of Healing

Nobody can imagine their life as full without art. Art is creation, play, beauty, communication, intuitionÖ All of these are ART. But what is the meaning of art, what is its true purpose? 
 Artists express their emotional world through art, and the spectators or readers let this world pass through the realm of their sensuality.  

What art influences directly is feelings, and through the human feelings and soul it makes an impact on the personality itself. 
 Emotions in art are special:

ï Feelings in art pass over to a spectator through mediators, that is, from an object, to the author, the material, the interpreter, and to the recipient. Therefore the art not only mirrors the world, but also represents it, gives it an expression.  ï Feelings and emotions in real life have different colouring, both negative and positive. Emotions in art are always positive. 
ï Emotions in art have social implications, and they always have something in common with the original feelings experienced by every human being, so an artist never experiences merely a simple emotion, but rather a kind of a general social feeling.

Through feelings, art reaches the inner world of a human being, inspires us and makes us humane, creates a 'personality' within a person. Art can bring up and develop this personality and, as a result, solve pedagogical and psychological problems. Moreover, art is a psycho-therapeutic remedy for a soul, a means of psychological and psychic relief. It is here that art can assist medicine.