COP2 study task 3b

• Proto-question
  How does creative expression benefit the individual and why is this important for wider society?
  
  
• What have you found out so far?
  

  - Researched ken horne and his artistic practice
  - Understanding key terms such as psychoanalysis, neuroaesthetics, psychotherapy and cognitive analytic therapy
  - its arguably scientific fact that art is a benefit to your mental health
  -we have strong connections with 'beautiful' visual stimulus
  -looking at ‘beautiful art’ increases blood flow to the orbito frontal cortex in the brain -The OFC has been implicated in playing a significant role in emotion, it has been hypothesized that the OFC is involved specifically in modulating bodily changes that are associated with emotion
• What are your core texts
  - Brain scans reveal the power of art - the telegraph 'The study is being seized upon as proof of the need for art to be made as widely available to the general public as possible.' - NeuroAesthetics - Anjan Chatterjee 'De Kooning’s change in style explicitly makes the case that art can serve as a window into the workings of the human brain, that when the brain changes, so too do artistic expression and perception.'- Art Psychotherapy in Neuro-Rehabilitation - melody weightman 'Art therapy can address the functional skills of individual patients and encourage improved social skills, while providing the emotional outlet that is necessary'
• Case studies - images, examples, phenomena
  

  Ken horne Louis Wain Michael Cougan
• Thoughts on practical?
  - visual diary
  - collecting unconscious drawings
  - big expressive paintings