<i>‘Well I’m still the Diva!’</i>Enabling people with dementia to express their identity through graffiti arts: Innovative practice

Hicks, Ben; Carroll, Denise; Shanker, Shanti; El-Zeind, Angela

doi:10.1177/1471301217722421

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“…The activity can help them regain a social life as they spend time with other people in a similar situation, making them feel understood and even finishing the intervention acting like a group of friends or becoming friends ( García Cano, 2018 ). Additionally, visual arts, for individuals with CI, can be a powerful tool that they can use to express themselves, and it can help them fight against the idea of being a homogenous population, as they can share and tell their own stories through visual art and be understood as a communication facilitator ( Peisah et al, 2011 ; Tucknott-Cohen and Ehresman, 2016 ; Hicks et al, 2019 ). The arguments above are directly linked with the obtained results, with facilitating socialization and communication being the most reported outcome.…”

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Benefits of Cultural Activities on People With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

2021

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Museums and cultural institutions are increasingly striving to respond to the interests and needs of the society that hosts them. This means, apart from other actions, that these institutions must be involved in the health and wellbeing of society, and the creation of cultural activities aimed at people with cognitive impairment, a group of individuals that is growing worldwide due to the aging of society and the increasing prevalence of dementia. The involved sectors are aware of the potential and benefits of activities for this population, even though there is much research to be conducted. To date, no systematic review has focused on the benefits of cultural activities for cognitively impaired people. This study aimed to explore the benefits of different modalities of cultural activities with evidence from 145 studies from various databases, which met the inclusion criteria. Significant improvements in general cognition, quality of life (QoL), emotional wellbeing, socialization, and communication were generally reported after interventions, with a reduction in depression symptoms. There was not enough evidence to prove memory, language, or daily functioning improvements attributable to cultural interventions. There were no significant reductions reported in apathy, sadness, agitation, or anxiety.

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Benefits of Cultural Activities on People With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

2021

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“…For instance, a lot of works are devoted to the mental disorders of artists (Graham & Meng, 2011). Clinical psychologists devote their articles to the self-expression of artists with mental disorders (dementia) (Hicks, Carroll, & Shanker, 2017).…”

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Interior Design Considerations to Enhance Student Satisfaction in Classrooms

Bandyopadhyay

George

2020

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The purpose of this study was to examine the problem of development of creativity of contemporary painters in Lithuania using the Method of "Intuitive Aesthetics". Development of painter's personality is one of the most significant problems of contemporary art psychology. Psychologists do a lot of studies, publish articles on the problem of visual communication, impact of the psychological characteristics on art creation, but not enough attention is being paid to the development of methods that would help to develop creativity. Impact of the "Intuitive Aesthetics" method as a way to step out from the stereotypes, that hinder creativity, was researched in the project for Lithuanian painters. 40 well-known Lithuanian painters took part in two En Plein Airs held in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 2018. The "Intuitive Aesthetics" method included four interactions: 1) seminar on art psychology, mindfulness and

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“…Negative views relate in general to tagging on public locations [7,8]. Positive views relate to their role in bringing art to the urban environment [6,[9][10][11][12] and wellbeing to its habitants [13][14][15][16]. For the scholars, graffiti is considered a new kind of cultural production [11,17] which extrapolates the boundaries of traditional art-"the white cube of the museum"-and makes the city-"the gray cube of the street"-a canvas in an open museum [18].…”

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Art through the Colors of Graffiti: From the Perspective of the Chromatic Structure

Feitosa-Santana

Gaddi

Gomes

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Sensors

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Graffiti is a general term that describes inscriptions on a wall, a practice with ancient origins, ranging from simple drawings and writings to elaborate pictorial representations. Nowadays, the term graffiti commonly describes the street art dedicated to wall paintings, which raises complex questions, including sociological, legal, political and aesthetic issues. Here we examine the aesthetics of graffiti colors by quantitatively characterizing and comparing their chromatic structure to that of traditional paintings in museums and natural scenes obtained by hyperspectral imaging. Two hundred twenty-eight photos of graffiti were taken in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The colors of graffiti were represented in a color space and characterized by several statistical parameters. We found that graffiti have chromatic structures similar to those of traditional paintings, namely their preferred colors, distribution, and balance. In particular, they have color gamuts with the same degree of elongation, revealing a tendency for combining similar colors in the same proportions. Like more traditional artists, the preferred colors are close to the yellow–blue axis of color space, suggesting that graffiti artists’ color choices also mimic those of the natural world. Even so, graffiti tend to have larger color gamuts due to the availability of a new generation of synthetic pigments, resulting in a greater freedom in color choice. A complementary analysis of graffiti from other countries supports the global generalization of these findings. By sharing their color structures with those of paintings, graffiti contribute to bringing art to the cities.

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‘Well I’m still the Diva!’Enabling people with dementia to express their identity through graffiti arts: Innovative practice

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Benefits of Cultural Activities on People With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

Benefits of Cultural Activities on People With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

Interior Design Considerations to Enhance Student Satisfaction in Classrooms

Art through the Colors of Graffiti: From the Perspective of the Chromatic Structure

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