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A Psychotherapist Paints is a unique account of an internationally known psychotherapist and group analyst's struggle to bring together his psychological experience and his interests and talent as an artist. This book describes a body of painting that was responsive to a major existential challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic, but which also comes from deeply personal experience;the paintings are a mirror of life through the decades. These paintings, fifty of which are included here in full color, were mainly presented online to groups both small and large, who were invited to participate in a dialogue that became a vital part of the developing project. The value of this dialogue is reflected in the author's concept of the "artist's matrix", describing the social context in which an artist produces and presents their work. The paintings, together with the autobiographical narrative and the groups' generativity, combine to produce a moving testament to our times. Intrinsic to A Psychotherapist Paints is a question about what makes us creative and how creativity transforms our lives. The result is a work of both artistic and psychological power that will inspire psychotherapists, art psychotherapists and artists themselves, and will point to exciting new possibilities in all these fields. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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Background: After two years of COVID in which activities were reduced due to the pandemic and each one's life was affected by restrictions and limitations, the Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Association in Padova teamed up with the Sickle Cell Group at the Pediatric Hematology Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit to celebrate the Sickle Cell Disease world day by organizing an online meeting with children/youths and their families. Theme of the meeting was: "My Life with SCD: poems, pictures and writings express our view on disease and care". Aim(s): One of the goals of this meeting was to create an opportunity for individuals with SCD to meet and have a constructive discussion with each other about the disease and express their feelings after two years of pandemic. Method(s): One month before the meeting children, teenager and parents were asked to sharer with the organizing team any drawing, painting, poem, writing, that they felt could express their feelings or experience of the disease itself or how it affected their life, or their experience in the hospital. The materials received were organized in a power point presentation and At the meeting, families were able to see a PowerPoint presentation with the poems, drawings, writings. Each author had the choice to personally share their production or have it read out loud by a member of the team. Free time to comment or share experiences was given. Result(s): 20 children, teenagers and parents participated. Countries of origin (Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Albania, Italy), religious background (catholic, muslim, no religion, other) were different as well as disease genotype (HbSS, HbSC, HbSBdegree), severity or treatment received (Hydroxyurea, transfusion, Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation -HSCT, none). Drawings and writings regarded experience with the disease (mechanism of action, admissions), feelings experienced (fear, hope, light at the end of the tunnel), aspirations (sports) and gratitude (to the social and medical team, to parents) (Figure 1). Surprisingly, families who had a child having undergone HSCT, reported on the need and importance to talk about this experience for years after the event and made a request of a support goup. Finally, all families underlined the need to meet again soon to discuss together issues related to personal experience with SCD, even via web. of discussion with each other and with the drepanocytosis group;and that throug the online telematics platform it is still possible to involve all families, listening and trying to comfort them on doubts and perplexities about the disease, In conclusion, it can be said that after two years of pandemic, in our setting, online meeting can help patients and families reconnect with each other and activities can be planned to aid experiences and feelings. Patients' associations and Health Care Teams can collaborate in this area.
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Background: Case study: Conclusion(s): The purpose of the study was twofold: (1) to present post-COVID-19 syndrome, which involves a variety of ongoing neurological, neuropsychiatric, neurocognitive, emotional and behavioral disorders resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection followed by a severe course of COVID-19 treated in long term pharmacologically induced coma in a visual artist, which impacted on her artwork;(2) to present QEEG/ERP results and neuropsychological testing results in the evaluation of the effectiveness of a comprehensive neurotherapy program, with individualized EEG-Neurofeedback, and art-therapy in the reduction of post-COVID-19 syndrome in this artist. Ms. G., 42, a visual artist, portraitist, with good health, became ill in May 2022. Allegedly flu symptoms appeared first. After a few days, shortness of breath joined in. The PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 was positive. The patient was hospitalized, referred to the ICU, put on a respirator and treated over 11days of a pharmacologically induced coma. Two months after leaving hospital the patient developed post-COVID-19 syndrome. She was diagnosed by an interdisciplinary team: a neurologist, neuropsychiatrist and neuropsychologist. A PET scan of her brain revealed extensive changes involving a loss of metabolism in various brain areas. The presence of complex post-COVID, neurological, neuropsychiatric, neurocognitive, emotional and behavioral disorders was found and a neuropsychiatrist suggested a diagnosis of post-COVID schizophrenia. She was refered to the Reintegration and Training Center of the Polish Neuropsychological Society.We tested the working hypothesis as to the presence of schizophrenia and there was no reduction in the difference of ERPs waves under GO/NOGO task conditions, like in the reference group with schizophrenia (see also Pachalska, Kaczmarek and Kropotov 2021). The absence of a functional neuromarker for schizophrenia allowed us to exclude this diagnosis and to propose a new disease entity, that being post-COVID-19 syndrome. She received a comprehensive two-component program of neurotherapy: (1) program A consisting in goal-oriented neuropsychological rehabilitation, including art therapy (see also: Pachalska 2008;2022b), and (2) program B, based on the most commonly used form of EEG-Neurofeedback: frequency/ power EEG-Neurofeedback, using 2 bipolar surface electrodes, with the protocols written for her specific needs (see also Thompson & Thompson 2012;Kropotov 2016). The comprehensive neurotherapy program lasted 10 weeks, EEG Neurofeedback and art therapy classes were conducted 3 times a week for 45 minutes each. We found that after the completion of the comprehensive neurotherapy program there was a statistically significant reduction in high beta activity compared to the normative HBI database, which is associated with a reduction of anxiety. Also, we observed the improvement of neurocognitive functioning in neuropsychological testing (a significant reduction of anxiety and a noticeable improvement in neurocognitive functions). It should be stressed that the artist was happy that she had regained the ability to create, and even sells her artwork, although her style of painting had changed. Almost all the neurological, psychiatric, neurocognitive, emotional and behavioral disturbances, were reduced in their severity. The artist showed marked improvement and was able to return to painting. The artwork she produced after her illness is in high demand with art collectors. It can be also helpful in the reintegration of the Self System, and the improvement in her quality of life. Human Brain Index (HBI) methodology might be very useful in diagnosing and developing therapies for patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome.Copyright © 2023, MEDSPORTPRESS Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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In the modern era of computers, various new technologies have been arising. One such thing is a touchless application that is used or controlled aerially with hand gestures and movements. Augmented reality and virtual reality have come into use which is controlled by gesture controls. Applications that work with gesture controls have started targeting all kinds of users. Python libraries like MediaPipe and OpenCV are used in hand-tracking, palm detection and object detection. Our work aims in developing a virtual painter that helps young children to draw simple images and shapes of varying sizes. The tool recognizes the hand with hand and palm detector models of MediaPipe and capture the modes for selection and drawing using OpenCV library. In the covid pandemic where children are stuck at home and everything has become online, this tool helps them in practicing simple shapes virtually and also makes it interesting for them. The system is tested by drawing aerially with hands and using selection/drawing modes. It worked well with less time latency due to the inbuilt SSD algorithm used in MediaPipe. © 2022 IEEE.
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In March 2020 the exhibition, ‘Pietro Aretino and the Art of the Renaissance', was forced to shut down as the Uffizi gallery closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.1 That such an exhibition could be staged in the first place, in one of the most important galleries in the world, speaks to Aretino's position in Italian cultural history. Aretino's position and legacy in Anglophone cultural and critical spheres is not nearly so established. However, it was once. In the sixteenth century (and beyond) Aretino was as recognisable – both esteemed and notorious – a name as Machiavelli. Copies of both their works were published in the 1580 s by the London printer John Wolfe, with prefaces arguing that both authors had been wrongfully maligned by the Catholic Church and that these English re-prints were intended to reinstate them for discerning readers.2 While these prefaces argued that Machiavelli's political message was misunderstood by his English readers, Aretino was presented as a defender of free speech, and an exposer of hypocrites: ‘a great friend of free men, mortal enemy of crooked necks, great lover of knowledge, cruel adversary of ignorance, follower of virtue, and bitter castigator of vices'. This is the first Anglophone journal issue ever devoted to Aretino, drawing together the diverse disciplines through which Aretino can be traced: political and diplomatic histories of Europe, art history, literary studies, book history and print culture, to name a selection. He is a figure long overdue a return to wider academic recognition;not the blackmailer and pornographer of popular tradition, but a figure who was courted by kings, emperors and popes, who was both friend and enemy to some of the most important artists of the cinquecento, whose name and fame spread across Europe as a byword for Italy and vice, and whose influence upon English literary culture has still not been fully acknowledged.
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Works of art in the diverse Asian collections at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) are regularly requested for display. These collections are routinely condition checked and, where appropriate, interventive treatments undertaken. Storage, in particular, has been continually improved. With the closure of the NGA during the initial Covid lockdown in March 2020, and the subsequent decreased demand to prepare works for exhibition, loan and travelling exhibitions, there was an opportunity to investigate Asian works in the NGA Study Collection, with the objective of identifying those excluded from display because of condition. The time available meant that the NGA Paper Conservation team could examine and treat a number of Asian scroll paintings in this collection. The focus of this paper is three Japanese paintings and two Chinese paintings, all on silk supports, with various degraded paper and fabric mounts and backings. After initially viewing the works with Curatorial colleagues, treatment expectations were discussed and established. Background research was undertaken, in terms of generic style and period, together with limited analysis on supports and pigments in order to inform treatment. While further Curatorial research is ongoing, it was possible to agree appropriate potential mounting styles and materials, allowing treatments to progress. © The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials 2022.
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In this paper, I describe how my painting practice restored and sustained a more coherent and vitalized sense of self during the isolation, loneliness and sense of unrealness, dislocation, and lost world order brought about by Covid. I describe how the intersubjective and physical process of painting, and the nonverbal, embodied experience of creating art re-situated me in a world that felt real and allowed me to know and reflect on emotional experiences not available verbally until represented in visual, concrete form. I present a brief clinical example to illustrate how my artistic practice during Covid decisively informed an appreciation of the importance of a co-constructed selfobject experience that recognized how essential a patient's own affirmed creativity was for enhancing her sense of vitality, agency, and possibility of positive change.
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Considering the shift to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic, new and easily accessible educational videos and content on clinical anatomy are necessary. This study utilized numerous references and data on the anatomy of Asian facial muscles and blood vessels to accurately depict human anatomy through face painting. It aimed to provide clinicians accurate educational video content on anatomy to help prevent possible complications during noninvasive facial and surgical procedures. A 26-year-old Korean-Chinese male volunteer was used as a face painting model. The location of the blood vessels of the face was confirmed through ultrasonography images using a real-time two-dimensional B-mode. The model's face was painted by an artist majoring in anatomy. To reveal most anatomical structures on both sides of the face, the left side showed the structures observed when the skin and superficial fat layer are removed, and the right side revealed the deeper layer structures that can be seen when some muscles are cut. Fifteen superficial and deep muscles important in esthetic procedures were meticulously painted on the face. The face painting took a total of 6 h, and the video was edited to 5 min. This study merged the advantages of 2D and 3D by painting directly on the skin surface of a living model. Thus, it can provide more dynamic surface anatomy data. These contents inform clinicians about 3D anatomic location, which can help avoid complications when performing clinical procedures on the face.
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A visual conversation through art herstory and mothering, made during the first lockdown of 2020. Faced with a lack of private space, the author locks herself in the bath and discusses paintings from the past as she grapples to make art when her son wants her full attention. © 2023 Intellect Ltd Article. English language.
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The article discusses the experience of creating oil paintings in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The material for the analysis was the results of the author's plein air practice, presented in the album "Oil Painting by Liao Zhengding `Fields and haystacks in the surroundings of Pushkin'". Based on the current research literature regarding the COVID-19-pandemic impact on the arts, the article provides systematization and analysis of landscape works created by the author during self-isolation;a number of problematic issues of the "pandemic art" theory are brought into sharp focus.
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A visual conversation through art herstory and mothering, made during the first lockdown of 2020. Faced with a lack of private space, the author locks herself in the bath and discusses paintings from the past as she grapples to make art when her son wants her full attention. © 2023 Intellect Ltd Article. English language.
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We can use technological capabilities as a solution during a pandemic. We use virtual exhibitions as one of the solutions, as it is not only implementing multimedia capabilities but also for artists and viewers to present artworks with a different experience than conventional exhibitions. In this study, we worked with artists who could not exhibit their works due to social restrictions on community activities. We use the implementation of WebGL on the exhibition platform to provide an interactive experience for users to enjoy the work more freely. We built the platform using the mixed Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Multimedia Development Life Cycle (MDLC) methods by Luther to make the work efficient. The novelty in this research is that the platform not only presents works of art but also becomes a repository for storing work data so that we can update the data on the dashboard to store multimedia data. Tests conducted on Beta Testing of users with the System Usability Scale (SUS) showed that the virtual exhibition in terms of adjective ratings included the Good category and acceptability ranges including Acceptable. We hope that with this platform, the multimedia application will become more dynamic to solve community problems under challenging conditions such as Covid 19. © 2022 IEEE.
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This contribution presents the results of a technical investigation on the pigments of William Burges’ Great Bookcase (1859–62), preserved at the Ashmolean Museum. It is the first thorough material investigation of a remarkable piece of Gothic Revival painted furniture, notably an artwork by Burges, whose work has so far received little attention from a technical point of view. This study was developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, which significantly affected the planned research activities since the investigation relied extensively on collaborations with institutions within and beyond the University of Oxford. The disruption caused by the lockdown and other restrictions went far beyond any prediction and led us to redefine the project’s outcome and methodology ‘on the fly’ while maintaining its overall vision. However, thanks to the timeliness of a substantial research grant received from the Capability for Collection Fund (CapCo, Art and Humanities Research Council), we could ultimately turn this research into a unique opportunity to test the potential of recently acquired instruments, namely the Opus Apollo infrared camera and the Bruker CRONO XRF mapping spectrometer. Therefore, besides reporting on the findings, this contribution outlines the strategy adopted and assesses the new equipment’s capability for the non-invasive analysis of complex polychromies. [ FROM AUTHOR]
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In the context of the global covid19 virus, people must stay at home and stop working, and the economy is in dire straits. When the epidemic is under control, people have a strong desire to travel and let themselves relax. The government also hopes to promote economic recovery and increase employment opportunities by implementing tourism projects. Tourist souvenirs are characteristic products of tourist attractions. It can bring more cultural memory to tourist destinations and drive consumption growth. In this study, the project will design flower-themed tourist souvenirs for Guangzhou. The project organizes Chinese painters, graphic designers, and product designers to work together. The study hopes to meet people's psychological needs through improved tourist souvenirs after the epidemic. Taking Bird of Paradise as an example, the study analyzes how to link the properties of plants to tourist destinations and collaborates with experts in different fields to design new tourist souvenirs based on tourists' psychological needs. In the future, souvenirs from tourism festivals will be used as an essential design strategy to improve the psychological needs of tourists after the epidemic. © 2022, Association Res Militaris. All rights reserved.
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Positive Covid-19 instances are becoming more common every day. To reduce everyday cases, the government has taken a variety of actions. It logically follows from the absence of cohesiveness among the community. This work of art aims to provide social commentary by using assemblage paintings as a record to promote communal cohesion. Overall, the results demonstrate that a few social groups' steadfast contempt for Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) has led to the failure of countless programmes. In order to reduce the incidence of infection, the populace must be united and accept government orders.
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The non-Transitory side effects derived from the spread of COVID-19, which have suddenly silenced and emptied schools and universities while activating new didactic forms , lead us to a reflection on the value of the e-learning teaching project in design schools and its possible repositioning towards the discipline. Taking inspiration from the recent modalities of distance learning, which were experimented during the compulsory lockdown and isolation caused by the spread of the virus, this contribution means to reflect on those online teaching procedures that have been used in the domain of design. These refer to some pedagogic experiences for the diffusion of knowledge developed in Italy since the 60s, on media of communication such as the radio and the television. They could become an operational procedure with the ability to influence the new way of conceiving both the teaching and the idea itself of the design project soon. © HEAd 2022. All Rights Reserved.
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Among the human-mediated factors that drove the high rates of death and illness associated with that pandemic were wartime conditions, marshalling of military operations, mass transportation by ship and rail, and growing urbanization, which would have been celebrated by Futurists as transformative forces. Byron Breedlove, EID Journal, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop H16-2, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, USA Return Address Send To Send To authors Authors editors Editors Comments 10000 character(s) remaining. July 22, 2022 The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. Volume 28, Number 8—August 2022 About the Cover “A Great Synthesis of Labor, Light, and Movement” Downloads Article ------------ RIS [TXT - 2 KB] Article Metrics Metric Details Related Articles International COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation ------------ COVID-19 and Agricultural Workers, Guatemala ------------ Influenza Surveillance Systems and COVID-19 ------------ More articles on Influenza Byron BreedloveComments to Author Author affiliation:
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An interview with visual artist artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson is presented. Among other things, Ponizovsky talks about the creative thought and emotional processes that went into "Present Figures," a series of multilingual "mural-montages."
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We present a classroom exercise carried out in the field of teacher training during the first period of blended teaching after the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Students had to identify their emotions and find a metaphor for them through a pictorial work. After that, a virtual expression framework was created in which all the information is uploaded and compiled, linking the concept to the image, as a group therapy. The objective was to work on resilience as an emotional state allowing to face the well-being of the group. The results show four emotional categories present among the students, being predominant the evocative or nostalgic one. Impressionism, due to its characteristics, becomes the artistic style that mostly reflects the different students' feelings. This exercise has allowed to create a space for emotional expression of the group- which offers an extraordinary setting to foster resilient attitudes. © Arteterapia.All rights reserved.
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In the context of medical education, body painting refers to the schematic portrayal of internal organs on the body's surface. Body painting session has been reported to be fun and engaging, and it encourages learning through easy visualisation of underlying anatomical structures. Besides improving anatomical knowledge retention, body painting is particularly effective for learning surface anatomy and complementing the teaching of clinical skills and peer assessment procedures such as palpation. Indeed, the clinical relevance of the gross anatomy can be conveyed to students by bringing cadaveric anatomy to life body painting. In educational perspective, the delivery of body painting method is in line with the active learning approach and collaborative learning principle;and its instructional design follows the principles of the cognitive load theory. In this article, we provide a systematic approach for a successful body painting session for anatomy teaching via online platform, which cater for remote learning needs amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. © Malaysian Association of Education in Medicine and Health Sciences and Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia. 2022