Vincent Van Gogh Art Therapy

In Van Gogh’s piece of art “Prisoners Exercising” (1890) is shown sadness, depression, and despair of the prisoners. You can say that prisoners are also hopeless, by how the artist drew faces of some of the prisoners. The artist used black, gray, dark blue, brown and dull orange colors, these colors make you feel sad and distressed. By looking at this painting and the colours that were used we can say that Van Gogh was feeling depressed and he had a life crisis. I believe that the artist’s message that he wanted to deliver is, this is how life can look like, making circles in a small room, loneliness, being controlled by other people who are watching your each and every step that you take. Maybe he wanted to show how people look like when they are freedomless.

A variety of communication media can be considered when planning to produce a presentation, for example verbal communication and written communication, each type of communication media has its advantages and limitations. When developing my presentation I decided to use both verbal and written communication, although both communication methods were used I had to ensure that they were used in the correct quantities. To keep my presentation engaging I tried to use as much visual representation as possible limiting the amount of text per slide. I chose to use PowerPoint because of its combination of written and verbal communication (not to mention the cost effectiveness of choosing PowerPoint and simplistic interface); the written aspects included the text on the slides, screenshots and images. The screenshots proved particularly useful as they was of the actual database used in the daily running of the Apprenticeships Store, once paired with the demonstration of inputting data into the database it ensured greater understanding due to more practical learning as opposed to theoretical learning. More detail was provided in my handouts ensuring I didn’t give too much information at once and this allowed the audience to document any supplementary information I said during the presentation, by speaking and interpreting what was on the slides ensured the presentation remained fluid and

Describe five significant points (in detail and complete sentences) that you absorbed from this presentation that is related to what

But my storytelling wasn’t strong enough because I wouldn’t finish telling the story of each slide, 15 min wasn’t enough time for me. Other than that, I believe my presentation was interesting because by the look at the audience faces; they were all paying attention and manage to laugh at some parts that I presented. My narrative was quite easy to understand because I wouldn’t finish what I had to say for each slide for talking at a normal pace. I should have talked a bit faster than that.

Fard, Farah Joan. "The expanding reach of art therapy: though it's a relatively new approach to mental health treatment, art therapy is gaining traction and making a difference in people's lives." Art Business News, Winter 2015, p. 34+. Fine Arts and Music Collection, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=PPFA&sw=w&u=hillsbor&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA436797590&it=r&asid=1bc151430b53c85d758e9329f6ecf46a. Accessed 22 Nov. 2017.

Hints: You must limit your presentation to twelve (12) slides. You do not want to overwhelm your audience with too many slides or bore them with information they already know.

Comment on the following points: presentation introduction, presentation closure, speaker knowledge about information, main points clear to audience, etc.

Eric, I think your presentation is really clear and informative. I like the choices you made on the font type and color, it popped with the images that you used. I think that your points are well stated and easy to read and understand. The only thing that I can see that you might want to consider is adding more frames so that you could include even more information on the topic. I think that you did a nice job with the Prezi presentation, I was very worried about using Prezi myself, as it is completely new to

I loved your presentation specially because you chose Animation as your target. Animated movies are my favorite and getting to know more about was definitely fun. Is very interesting to know how far animation has come after all these years. You presented enough information and details about the art you chose which made it very easy and simple to understand. Looking back to the silent era we can see how much animated movies has evolved. Since technology wasn’t a huge thing back then I must give credit to the producers for doing such a great job. Colors in animated movies play a huge role since colors is one of the first thing that gets the viewers’ attention and I was able to notice that when I had to watch a black and white animated

I feel as though I addressed my goals effectively through my visuals and the video. I did everything I intended on doing for my presentation and was very proud of the outcome of it. One thing I would have done differently is I would have created a script beforehand to present more smoothly and I would have added some statistics to help support my points I made.

There are many things that I did well when completing this project. For my presentation I showed a google slides presentation and elaborated each slide. One of the things I did well was I projected my voice. Since I was doing a live presentation, I had to make sure everyone in the room could hear me clearly without it being overwhelming. I had to practice multiple times to get my voice to project correctly. Another thing I did well with in this project was, I didn’t have solely text on each slide. I incorporated relevant, sometimes even cute, photos on each slide. This helped make my presentation a lot less overwhelming and resulted in a much easier to digest(visually) presentation. The last thing I did good on was the way I formated each slide. It stayed mostly consistent and uniformed through the whole

Vincent Van Gogh was possibly the most notable artist of the impressionist movement. However, beyond the brilliant artwork was a man that suffered from debilitating illness. Van Gogh spent years struggling with bouts of depression interrupted by mania and anxiety. His state of mind was well-documented in letters that he wrote to his brother Theo, an art dealer living in Paris. Using these letters many modern psychologists have tried to accurately posthumously diagnose the illness of Van Gogh. Accurate diagnosis of a living patient is already an endeavor and many patients don’t receive an official diagnosis. Posthumous diagnosis is even more difficult because they have limited information about the patient. When it comes to mental illness though, the official diagnosis is not that important, it exists mostly so the patient has a name for what they are feeling. What is more important is identifying and recognizing the symptoms that affect the patient’s life. Van Gogh experienced more than his fair share of symptoms and often would write to his brother about how these symptoms affected his work as an artist.

It has always been like this for you. You can't remember the last time when something good has happened to you. You have always been feeling blue. Nothing goes right. You hate all those people who are always so excited about everything. Are you the only one who God has been so unkind to? If your answer is a yes to most of these questions, then you are suffering from a psychiatric disorder known commonly as manic depression. It is a mood disorder wherein abnormally elevated energy levels can be found. Depression, mania, hallucination and delusions are some of the common things which can be associated with. Don't feel like you are perhaps the only one with this disorder. Did you know that Vincent Van Gogh was believed to suffer from this bipolar

Most forms of therapy are centered on verbal communication. Art therapy, however, breaks that mold and introduces a more creative means of both communicating ideas and learning to grow. The American Art Therapy Association defines art therapy as:

Our presentation slides focuses more on pictures, charts and key-points for visual aid. By keeping the slides simple, audiences can focus more on the speaker. The videos uploaded by the Centre for English Language Communication department tell us our weaknesses which we do not realize by ourselves. Reflecting on my first and second presentation through videos and feedbacks from Ms. Christine has helped me