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.
