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How Art Help You Analyze (Blog#1)

Clarity, breadth and fairness are three intellectual standards showed in “how art help you analyze” clearly. And I will talk about it in details.

First, clarity. The analyze skills art teach us play much more important roles in some fields than we think. To prove this point, the producer lists doctors, nurses and enforcement agents and explain how art help them in their fields. Meanwhile, the producer depict a famous picture “Time Transfix” from Magritte to indicate us that we will confront many unknown in our work, just like this puzzling picture. What we need to do is solve these mysteries. Through those vivid examples, we can know that we get lots of beneficials from art, although sometimes we don’t realize it.

Second, breadth. “Art can enhance our perception and our ability to translate to others what we see.” That’s the topic sentence in this video. So the producer shows us several normal cases in our life. In some invetigations and emergencies, a police can describe the crime scene to colleague more comprehensively and accurately, which implies art enhance our ability to translate. As for treating the patient, the doctor will be more sensitively to detect the changes in patients. This ability is difficult to be learned in school but is easy to get from art.

Third, fairness. All the explanation the producer tells us is balanced, objective and free from bias. The example she provides are true without any exaggeration. The scenes of how nurse, doctors and enforcement agents apply the skills learn from art to their works are common in our real life.

Why Art Matters

Why art matters. I never thought about this problem before. The video gave me some inspiration which let me know the significance of art.

As we all know, we can’t live without water, food and air. But it seems we can live without art. After I saw this video, I totally changed my mind. Art is important for everyone. If we compare our work to bread, then art is the medicine to heal our soul. Try to imagine a picture like this, a young man just got off work at midnight. He is so tired that he doesn’t even want to talk to anyone. He feels hopeless about his messy life. He wants to cry for his failure, but he can’t. So he put on his headphones and plays his favorite music. When the beautiful voice flows into his ears, his world is lightened up. The music gives him strong power and energy to fight. He feels that he is a brave knight, and the music is his sword which helps him against all the difficulties he meets in his life. For this young man, the music is his best medicine to remove all his troubles and makes his life full of hope.

Art is not the precious crown displayed in the palace which is unaccessible for the normal people like us. If you are a good observer, you will find that art exists everywhere like air. A beautiful house you see on the street is a kind of art. A fashionable dress you see in a shop is a kind of art. An impressive movie you watch in the cinema is a kind of art. So just slow down and look around, you will notice that you live in an art world.