ART ED 478

UNIT: HEALING

ART HISTORY LESSON

JOHN SINGER SARGENT

"GASSED"

RESOURCE: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/harvard-medicine/musical-notes-healing

"When Conrad and his colleagues tested the patients, they found that classical music reduced blood pressure and heart rate, lowered stress-hormone levels, and reduced the need for sedatives. Another finding was more surprising: The patients’ levels of pituitary growth hormone rose by 50 percent, while levels of interleukin-6, which increases in response to stress, dropped significantly. These changes illustrate the potential of music to encourage relaxation and modulate immunity."

"There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one’s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice." -OSCAR WILDE

QUESTIONS:
WHAT TOLL DOES WAR HAVE ON HUMAN BEINGS?
HOW DO WE DEAL WITH WAR?
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE COSTS?
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE REASONS?
HOW DO WE AS HUMANS RESPOND TO DEVASTATION?


DOES ART HAVE A PLACE IN WAR?
DOES ART PLAY A NEUTRAL ROLE IN WAR?
CAN ART BE A WEAPON? 
CAN ART BE MEDICINE?
HAVE YOU EVER HAD A HAPPY EXPERIENCE WITH ART?


http://arteyewitness.blogspot.com/2014/11/art-eyewitness-book-review-john-singer.html

http://whowhatwhy.org/2014/05/26/pictures-to-honor-memorial-day-with-art-no-words-are-necessary/

In the autumn of 1939, the Winged Victory was removed from her perch in anticipation of the outbreak of World War II. All the museums of Paris were closed on August 25. Artwork and objects were packed for removal to locations deemed more safe outside Paris for safekeeping. On the night of September 3, the statue descended the staircase on a wooden ramp which was constructed across the steps.^[15] During the years of World War II, the statue sheltered in safety in the Château de Valençay along with the Venus de Milo and Michelangelo's Slaves.^[16]

 " The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace,^[2] is a marble Hellenistic sculpture of Nike (the Greek goddess of victory), that was created about the 2nd century BC. Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. H.W. Janson described it as "the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture",^[1] and it is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman copies."



https://daily.jstor.org/healing-art-in-hospitals-today/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29517700?mag=healing-art-in-hospitals-today&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29517701?mag=healing-art-in-hospitals-today&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents