Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Lenita PS Brainstorming, the depression patients can express their…

- - - - Example: your friend was told by another girl that her best friend from primary school thinks she's weird and doesn't like her any more, so she became very sad, but the problem wasn't about her or the opinion of the friend, really it was about the person who told her and their conflicts. You helped her to figure out that her best friend didn't actually think this
- - - - Respecting nature from an artistic standpoint: art doesn't need to be against science or reality, they are actually hthe same thing in your perspective. You also do traditional writing -- your experience with these Chinese traditional arts: all the different inks, brushes, papers, etc. all came from nature -- famous paintings show a huge view of nature, mountains. They get their dyes from nature too, which gives a great natural, realistic effect to the painting.
        
        A main theme of traditional art is nature
        
        If you want to paint something very impressive, you either go against nature or you go with nature -- against nature happens more in western art, but in Chinese art they go with nature, which reveals a philosophy of ancient China. Difference between Western and Chinese artwork: Chinese paintings focus more on the strokes that you paint, you have an outline in your mind of the strokes that you're going to paint and focus on a broader view of the paintings. You can paint so much -- mountains, trees, flowers, etc. only with simple strokes
        
        This theme of traditional art has influenced your view of Psychology -- psych has its own philosphy, it is not all about science, but the "art of people" -- what psychologists do, is you make experiments on people but you have to apply all of your findings from them to the larger human society. Psych is not about making a better society, it is about making better individuals who will then form better societies
        
        Your experience of this: your classmate and you attended CTB competition, and you came out with some research about people's bias about depression. You think it's important because from your research you found that people think depression patients are too fragile, but according to your experience and other experience, it's not due to being fragile, but rather there are other reasons that are making them that way, like their traumas from abuse or other stressful things that have freaked them out. So you and your classmates wrote about how families can help teenagers to get through this -- you are planning to show some art galleries online, because artwork actually expresses people's feelings. If you can influence people to think that these patients may have a better life and could be more active about getting help, you can save lives
- - - - The expression of emotions in the artwork is what interests you -- what you do somehow reflects what you think
        
        Why is Art a good way to see this?
        
        Because everyone can paint. There are no rules to painting. If you write something, you need to have grammar, appropriate words, but in art, there's a direct impact on people's eyes which is somehow more striking -- all the different shapes/colors/etc can reflect what the artists think
        
        You once saw the paintings of a DID patient -- what he draws is very dark, ex. a doll hanging itself -- you don't have a knowledge of the painting beforehand, but once you put it down people can feel the same feelings you are -- there's no need for any logic
        
        Discovered this idea when you first took the traditional painting class -- you first took calligraphy, then did art -- in calligraphy, you had to stricly follow what the original author did, just like you are copying other's work -- so it's not so interesting -- but in the art class, the teacher may set a topic for you, but you can express it in your own way -- in the first class, you were told to paint a monkey, but everyone ended up with very different monkeys, with different spirits, facial expressions, gestures -- this really reflects what kind of people the artists are. For example, your teacher says she is very sensitive about all the strokes she paints, so she is probably a sensitive person emotionally