Mood paint

Researchers at Texas A M University discovered that mood, blood pressure, and surgery recovery time can be influenced by art — but not just any kind of art. Patients who had Picasso reproductions in their rooms fared worse than those with blank walls, while some of those who gazed at Monet s water lilies recovered more quickly. I think Hans Selye must have loved beautiful paintings, too. After all, he was himself an artist of sorts. He carved part of the cortisol molecule into the cement outside his window when he was living on Milton Street near McGill. It s still there — a silent testimonial to the man my parents dragged me to see on that stressful day so long ago. 

Surrealism 1920 to the Present. Artists who have been involved in the surrealist movement include Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte, and Max Ernst. Surrealism combines realism, the subconscious, and the dream world. Imaginative objects, the real and unreal, exist in the same picture. This movement was inspired by Sigmund Freud s study of the subconscious. The surrealistic artists are also excellent technicians. A surrealistic painting usually suggests a specific mood (e.g., eerie, sad, playful, mysterious). 

Studies have been done to determine the effects of colors on humans. For example, when preschool children in New Zealand were placed in a pink room, their physical strength and positive mood increased the reverse was true of children placed in blue rooms. Blue light, with its shorter wavelengths, tends to calm the brain. Green rooms where actors wait before a performance are painted that color because green has a restful effect without the sometimes depressing effect of blue. 

In conclusion, this is the poison paradox chemicals have useful and beneficial effects but under different conditions the same chemicals can be harmful. Some chemicals can cure our ailments, improve our mood, or make our food taste better others can be used to make valuable products such as brightly coloured paints, parts of computers, or cars, and many kinds of plastic or flame-resistant clothes. There is a multitude of ways in which chemicals enrich our society, yet at the same time, if they are misused or used without respect, they can be hazardous. When a person takes or is given a dose of a drug that is too high, or is exposed to a concentration of a chemical that is too high (say in an industrial accident), adverse consequences inevitably foUow. As Paracelsus commented centuries ago All substances are poisons there is none that is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy ... 

Unlike the feature film, in the United States the short film has strong linkages to noncommercial arts—the short story, the poem, the painting, the photograph. Consequently, in both form and content, the short film is adaptive to a broader band of creative goals. The short film can address a moment as the photograph does a mood, as the poem does or a deep, reflective observation, as the short story so often has. The form consequently is far freer in its creative parameters than is the long film. 

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Include nothing on the visual aid that you do not intend to discuss. Of course, you need to apply this rule with some common sense. Just as background images in a painting can set a mood for more prominent features, an entire chart can set the context for specific points. 

Uses Prod, of glazes in ceramics and elec, porcelain catalyst mfg. of other lithium compds. flux in specialty glasses and enamels coating of arc-welding electrodes nucleonics luminescent paints varnishes dyes aluminum prod. medicines (treatment of manic depression, as mood-stabilizing drug, as antidepressant)... 

For the interior of buildings, the paint has a special effect on illumination white and pastel colours increase the availability of natural and artificial light and influence mood and feelings. 

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