Brimming with upbeat guidance this accessible handbook shows how anyone can use art to
enlighten uplift calm and ease stress and anxieties. Visual art is enlightening challenging
informative and arresting but it can also be therapeutic reducing anxiety and stress levels
and offering perspective on the challenges that we all face in our lives. This guide introduces
readers to new ways of looking at a wide range of art. Through careful examination and
explanation it investigates how engaging with art and drawing upon its ideas can help everyone
feel connected and inspired. From Frida Kahlo confronting her anxieties to Henri Matisse
embracing happiness from Louise Bourgeois conquering fear to Auguste Rodin finding hope it
shows how you too can use art to work through difficult emotions and improve your mental
wellbeing. Even art that unsettles can help us to think and feel differently. Artists have been
conveying aspirations emotions ideas and stories for thousands of years this book will help
everyone to ?read' these messages and thereby to enrich their own emotional life through art.
