Amy E. Herman uses René Magritte’s Time Transfixed to make a strong case that art can help teach analytical skills. Herman states the importance of being able to thoroughly analyze a scene. She notes everything she sees in Time Transfixed, from the train coming out of the fireplace, the large mirror and the clock siting on the mantle, to the less obvious empty candlesticks, wood floors, and wall moldings. She then points out that a detective needs to be able to notice inconspicuous details in a crime scene, much like doctors should be aware of the same kinds of details when diagnosing their patients. Herman believes that studying art can train a person to be apt to noticing these details.

Herman also encourages the viewer to look from a different perspective and ask questions to fill in any missing information. She asks of Magritte’s painting, where are the tracks for the train to run on? Or the tunnel the train might be coming out of? Where is the fire in the fireplace, or the candles for the candlesticks? And why is the lighting of the room inconsistent with the time on the clock? She relates these questions to detectives interrogating a suspect for more information. Herman comments that, similarly, doctors consider symptoms that are present just as important as symptoms that are not present when making a diagnoses. A doctor must explicitly ask patients if they are not experiencing symptoms in order to make a proper diagnoses. She concludes from this that art can also be an important tool when training the eye to pick up on the absence of details.

This was an interesting topic to learn about, as I had never thought of interpreting art as an analytical skill. In retrospect, it seems obvious that the painstaking attention to detail employed by art historians is a skill can that can be carried over into other professions. The jobs of doctors and detectives are both very important, they carry the lives of others in their hands. I’d like to see this skill taught and utilized on a smaller scale. What if we analyzed every advertisement, every news article, the way we would analyze an old painting or a political cartoon. What if for all the media we constantly see, we asked what we aren’t being shown. For one thing, we’d probably see a lot more conspiracy theories and a lot more skeptics. More importantly, we might see people start to research more, go to more than one news source, have more diversified views as opposed to just one option or the other. The investigative skills taught by art are ones we can all use.

I recently re-decor my living room wall. It was plain grey color, after seeing for so many years it was making me depressed. I have decided to do something on the wall that will uplift my mood. I changed my wall color and added some colorful painting. The painting made my living room look alive. Every time I look at those painting, I feel good in myself. I believe the art, the colors bring our inner happiness out. We are surrounded by art in our everyday life. By viewing and Understanding how arts communicate help us to be more open about other perspective in life. By Trying to understand the massage artist conveying , remembering every details of an art,  thinking about it, and  trying to find every hidden clues in a painting, these make us more observant and we became more aware of our surrounding. Not only art make us happy and make us more observant it also help to relief stress. I have a painting app in my phone for coloring. It gives you a blank picture to color. Every time I use it I get so focus on painting that whatever the stress I was  feeling it leaves me and I feel much calmer. I feel art bring the positive on people that’s why art matters.

For the question “how art can help us analyze?”, we see how presenters describes the importance of the art to improve the way we can see images and how to analyze them. Artists give information through their arts and people should be able to have deep looking to interpret the meaning of the art.

In some cases, it is difficult to interpret the signification of a painting or some artistic objects. If we do not pay attention to every detail of the art, we can miss some important points that the artist wants to provide. It is not only going to the museum to see arts or looking arts on the streets or parks etc. we should have the ability to analyze what we are seeing in the art. That mean we should not have some presuppositions; we should look every detail to understand the meaning of the art. Therefore, by doing this analyze, art can help us to improve the way we see things and how we can improve our intellectual standard of the quality. In the video, presenters use clear example to connect art to our capability of thinking. For example, one the speaker uses images communication, that mean by analyzing arts we can learn something from them, and every art is telling us something that only our analyze can decipher. The other speaker makes a connection between art and our environment, that mean we can develop our knowledge by analyzing art and use that experience to better see the real world.

In conclusion, art is very important to develop our capacity of thinking and analyzing, it can be useful in our daily life and environment.

“Why Art Matters”by DR. Steven Zucker and DR. Beth Harris talks about how art matters to people. I believe art matters because it has a significant about how artist visualize a object or something and expressing it on an painting or drawing. The good think about art is people have different interpretation which makes it interesting because  people never think in a painting how other people do so its fun to ask questions or ideas about seeing a painting. in addition art can be express everywhere in an building where there is graffiti and tourist and different people can enjoy looking at art forms.

In the video Why art Matters by DR. Steven Zucker and DR. Beth Harris informs us “We live in a visual world understanding and looking at thinking about the way images communicate in all kind of ways it is important in being alive.” There are many images around the world that make people think and ask questions about what they see for example a painting can show you a message or give you an idea of why this person painted this image, what was their motivation, what message does this person try to send to you, but also what do you take from looking at this drawing what message do you see when you look at it. I agree with the statement presented by both DR. Steven Zucker and DR. Beth Harris, we do indeed live in a visual world in which we use images to communicate with people in a multitude of different ways. A painting can show you a variety of ways to comprehend the image which tells us that there is no correct answer to the reason.

The main statement of this TED talk presented by Amy E. is that art can help to mold your perception of the world, and mind the small details to create a better mental image of what you are really seeing, further that can help you to analyze and describe situations of the real world.

Amy gives the example of the witness that was giving a spoken retrait, and make us realize how important is to know how to give a properly description or something, because art can help you mind every detail but also can help you to examine the absent things, for example when a doctor is giving a diagnostic and he makes a serie of questions to the patient so he can discard options and get to the illness that the patient has.

I think art is strongly connected to the outrospection, when you can imagine yourself thinking as the other person would think and figuring out what the other person wanted to express with their actions (one example can be that many people see graffitis as vandalism and first they should think what the person who did it wanted the viewers to infer), that is another important skill that art gives you. Because primarily art is a form of expression and people can unload their emotions through art, painting is a good therapy for mental health and could help you to dive deep inside your mind.

How art can help you analyze

Arts are the creation that helps us see the world from different perspectives. it gives us empathy and help us understand people, places and periods of history. The arts ignite something our brains that I cannot explain but I know it’s essential for life. The strong effect art can have in the human brain, viewing, analyzing and creating art stimulates the brain in a substantial and long lasting way. It describes what you are seeing and what you are not.  “How art can help you analyze,” in Smart history, Amy E. Herman addresses how doctors, nurses and lawyers use their visual activity and communication skills which help to investigate and emergencies and enhance our critical and creative thinking. Art can enhance our perception and our ability to communicate to others what we have seen and unseen. Art is important because it helps people to sharper their observational shills and teach them to be more empathetic.

Art makes people more empathetic. Empathy is the ability to be aware of the feeling and emotions of other people, that is significant for the doctors and nurses to treat them better. They need to be empathetic to understand the patient. The visual arts can help doctors turn out more accomplished physicians, the arts matter to medicine. The arts make medical students become more thoughtful and listen carefully to a patient’s narrative of his or her symptoms. This allows doctors to make a more informed diagnosis. Open communication between the doctor and patient helps the patients to understand their illness and comply with treatment. Additionally, the  arts can help a physician grapple with uncertainties which are an essential part for doctors. They think broadly and entertain various possibilities before settling on a final interpretation. however, a growing number of people insist that arts is the best antidote to the kind of tunnel vision that can lead to misdiagnosis and the lack of empathy that is eroding the doctor and patient relationship.

The question I chose is “How art can help you analyze”.

In my opinion, the presenters perfectly explained why art matters, and how it can help us to think deeper, beyond the visual and intellectual obvious indicias. At the beginning of the video, Amy E. Herman mentioned the ordinary prejudice of many people in our society that art doesn’t matter. To prove the opposite, Herman used three relatively different occupations which can profit thanks to analyzing art in general. Exemplary observation of the painting and implementation of these techniques in different situations demonstrated, how close studying of art can train the way of thinking, viewing, and exploring things and situations and how useful it can be in many completely different spheres.

Even I agreed with the statements in the video, I think that analyzing art can be even more interesting in the context of some kind of psychoanalysis of individuals. As it was mentioned above that one can say, the art doesn’t matter, and it’s just an unnecessary accessory. But could the chosen color, shape, or type of a particular piece of art suggest, what type of personality has the person owning a concrete piece of art? May the specific taste or reaction to the certain art piece provide the look into the mind or even the soul of the individual?

There are many points of view on art and its importance, and the fact, that we can improve our analytic skills through art is unequivocal. Concentration to the detail, asking questions, contemplation, speculation, or consideration of the space behind the horizon could be useful not just for some occupations, but for each of us on daily basics.

Art is a mirror where people are meant to move either on an intellectual or emotional level. It tells the thousand meanings of a subject no words are required to express. Art matters in our lives because we live in a visual world and art existed as long as man has. Art is a part of our lives; it is a huge part of our culture which shapes our ideas, understanding and level of thinking and vice versa. It provides us with a hidden meaning,deeper understanding, emotions and self awareness and many more.  Art is a powerful tool to express the hidden secrets.In the video “Why art matters”  speakers talk about the importance of art in lives and way of perception .Art is a medium to represent the things generation to generation and put it alive.It is the way of understanding and looking at and thinking about the way images communicate in all kinds of ways is important to being alive today. In addition,it attracts the sort of emotion, attraction to an environment which molds to be a  better person. Art helps to be more aware ,alert, present space because there is so much detail on it. Furthermore, the speaker talks about art is every wheres , not only in museums. It could be anywhere in the street,in a park or looking at a building or even in a movie.Art is not limited or just only part of a museum’s art is everywhere in everyday life. The speaker suggests to be first  impressed by the art, just stop and take a breath and look a little deeper at something, there are so many details around that  you absorb if you really just take a moment and just let it come in and listen. It is clear that art carries many meanings and how we rely on art, in all of it’s forms,in our everyday lives. it reveals our lives  because we are surrounded by art, it is not just a painting it is a mirror to show you the reality of the world.