Some theories:
1. Art Lowers Anxiety
Just looking at art can be healing. For centuries, many cultures have used the mandala form as a tool for contemplation and prayer—letting the mind stop on one spot while the natural forces and chaos of the world swirl around you.
2. Art Generates New Solutions
Even the simplest art, like a Japanese Enso, is layered with complexity. It's like William Blake’s idea of “the world in a grain of sand.” The more you look, the more ideas reveal themselves, whether the art is simple or complex. It takes time and patience to find, examine, and consider the endless options art offers.
3. Art (Both Making It and Looking at It) Can Have a Role in Therapy
Psychologist Cathy Malchiodi, in her book The Art Therapy Sourcebook, writes that art therapy is “a modality for self-understanding, emotional change, and personal growth.” Yes, focused attention on therapeutic benefits is helpful. But what about most of us who don’t ever go to an actual art therapist? Can art help us? Many artists will tell you that making art is therapeutic and calming, that it helps you calm distracting, negative, and unhelpful thoughts, and that it gets your hands and body working as opposed to only your mind.
4. Art Helps Us Deal with Difficult Realities
Poetry is consoling in times of unrest and pain, illness and grief. The poet Richard Wright wrote more than 4,000 haiku during his last year of illness in Paris. Wright’s daughter Julia said he continued “to spin these poems of light out of the gathering darkness.” Art works like that and serves like that.
5. Art Builds Safe, Meditative, Imaginative Spaces
Making art can break open and free trauma. For me, walking and beachcombing calm my mind’s storm. And then I paint to have a similar experience or visit galleries or art online to experience how other artists have translated their emotions and observations into healing messages. In these ways, I experience a pure connection to imagination, the land where everything is okay for a little while.
Paul writes:
'Art brightens up your home and your life and is representative of your taste and your human right of expression and a splash of colour has been proved to be beneficial for your mood.
Art can produce a number of different emotions, laughter, sadness, curiosity, anger and joy, can inspire you, motivate you and challenge you.
Art makes the viewer think and thinking keeps the brain muscle working, admiration of other people's art and creative process is positive for the individuals involved and creating a like minded community supports ideas and uniqueness.
I am not an artist, but I am confident that any skill that you are passionate about, and dedicating your time to become highly skilled is beneficial , physically and mentality.
Protester Art and Historical Art also brings events to life and can challenge the viewer to learn more about the topic and knowledge is useful for forming opinions.
Art has been a constant in the human psyche and human societies for thousands of years, from cave paintings, stone carvings, photography, film, photography and dance through to contemporary variations of digital art, street art and performative art.
If art was not beneficial for human beings, it would simply not have been an integral part of every community and society since the beginning of the human journey'
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