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Apr 20

Guided Art Discussion: Late Rembrandt in Rijksmuseum

At Museums as Therapy, we organize events we call guided art discussions. This is a form of a group visit to an art museum or gallery that combines two activities: an independent exploration of artworks by participants and a group discussion of these artworks facilitated by guides. In March, we…

Rijksmuseum

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Guided Art Discussion: Late Rembrandt in Rijksmuseum
Guided Art Discussion: Late Rembrandt in Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum

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Aug 27, 2021

Earliest figurative art: Aurignacian cave paintings (Sulawesi, Chauvet and more)

Cave paintings of Asia and Europe feature not only the oldest known figurative art, but also masterpieces of the whole art of the Paleolithic. …

Emotions

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Earliest Figurative Art: Aurignacian Cave Paintings (Sulawesi, Chauvet and more)
Earliest Figurative Art: Aurignacian Cave Paintings (Sulawesi, Chauvet and more)
Emotions

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Aug 10, 2021

Emotions and learning in museums: An overview of NEMO report

The Learning Museum Working Group (LEM WG), which is a part of the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO), dedicated their research in 2020 to emotions and learning. As a result of this work, the report on “Emotions and Learning in Museums” was published this year. …

Museums

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Emotions and learning in museums: An overview of NEMO report
Emotions and learning in museums: An overview of NEMO report
Museums

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Jul 28, 2021

Earliest figurative art: Aurignacian statuettes

The earliest known sculptures in the world are a set of about 50 ivory figurines discovered in four caves of Swabian Jura: Vogelherd, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Geißenklösterle, and Hohle Fels. Chronologically, all the figurines are from the Aurignacian period, with the oldest being the therianthrope (half man, half animal) from Hohlenstein-Stadel, aka…

Emotions

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Earliest Figurative Art: Aurignacian Statuettes
Earliest Figurative Art: Aurignacian Statuettes
Emotions

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Jun 26, 2021

Blombos Cave and beyond: Earliest decorations by Homo sapiens

Homo sapiens are thought to first appear in Africa (with the earliest known evidence being 300,000 years old) and then spread around the world. Similarly to Neanderthals (see corresponding text), Homo sapiens made engravings, wore shell beads and, beyond that, painted geometric ornaments. Blombos Cave in South Africa is unique…

Emotions

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Blombos Cave and beyond: Earliest decorations by Homo sapiens
Blombos Cave and beyond: Earliest decorations by Homo sapiens
Emotions

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Jun 12, 2021

Neanderthal decorations

Neanderthals are one of the extinct Homo species who lived in Eurasia between 400,000 and 40,000 BP. Although the lifespan of Neanderthals is larger than 350,000 years, the evidence of their symbolic behavior is very scarce: there is one known spatial structure built by Neanderthals, three highly controversial drawings attributed…

Emotions

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Neanderthal decorations
Neanderthal decorations
Emotions

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Jun 1, 2021

Before Art: Lower Paleolithic

“The existing literature on prehistoric art often discusses a handful of artefacts as potential ‘firsts’ of visual art forms. Three of the most prominent examples are the Makapansgat pebble, the Berekhat Ram figurine, and the Tan Tan statuette… Although these alleged cases of early art-like objects cannot be readily dismissed…

Emotions

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Before Art: Lower Paleolithic
Before Art: Lower Paleolithic
Emotions

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Apr 29, 2021

Monet and Water Lilies: Emotional experience

Recently, I visited the Monet exhibition in Kunstmuseum Den Haag, which presents Monet’s last artistic period when he worked mainly on landscapes with water lilies. While looking at these paintings, I also paid attention to emotions evoked by them. I realized I had a mixture of emotions ranging from joy…

Claude Monet

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Monet and Water Lilies: Emotional experience
Monet and Water Lilies: Emotional experience
Claude Monet

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Apr 28, 2021

Monet and Water Lilies: Art history perspective

Gombrich wrote about European art of late 19th century [1]: “Art has lost its bearings because artists have discovered that the simple demand that they should ‘paint what they see’ is self-contradictory… If we look out of the window we can see the view in a thousand different ways. …

Claude Monet

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Monet and Water Lilies: Art history perspective
Monet and Water Lilies: Art history perspective
Claude Monet

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