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Does It Speak To You?
Does It Speak To You?
I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationship of color to form or anything else...I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you are moved only by their color relationship, then you miss the point." - By Mark Rothko
In reading articles we found from Webforum that Art historian, Amy Herman, says that spending time with artwork can help us to improve our problem-solving skills.
She discusses the 'art of noticing', which is the ability to put down our mobile phones and truly focus on the artwork in front of us.
The skills of art observation are transferrable, being able to decipher nuance and ambiguity is a skill used by hostage negotiators, for example.
In the search for novel ways to hone our problem-solving skills, spending time with a work of art may be the simplest and most effective training, according to the art historian Amy Herman.
Herman has been teaching professionals—homicide detectives, medical students, lawyers, and engineers—to read paintings as a way to improve their analytical faculties. “Art provides a safe space outside of ourselves to analyze our observations and convert those observable details into actionable knowledge,” Herman writes in the introduction to her new book, Fixed. How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem-Solving.
Doing so can help us understand how and why things go wrong and, more importantly, how to fix them, she explains." ...
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