Last weekend, I participated in a fun art x public welfare x food pop-up event with the Vi-C readers at K11 in Guangzhou, which was very interesting.
The Van Gogh Restaurant on the second floor of the K11 Art Mall has been decorated with art displays and transformed into a large dream space, where we can see the painting exhibition of autistic children, diyy art cooking, and listen to the lecture of "Art and Love".
The feeling of being surrounded by Dimensional C readers is warm
In the past, when we mentioned public welfare, we would feel difficult and dusty, but here, I felt the dazzling light of the starry sky and a strong warmth.
In the morning, as soon as our colleague Apple Sister arrived at the scene, she exclaimed, "This is so beautiful!" “
The children's exhibition is particularly dazzling through the designer's display. The world they paint is sometimes naïve and innocent, sometimes with a special perspective, which is a kind of wonderfulness beyond your imagination and mine. I seemed to be getting deeper into the world of children's innocence, cuteness, and sparkle.
▲ The works of "Star Kids" were also exhibited at the event site
There is also a "starry sky studio" with glowing planets, colorful pigments and a palette. It's so beautiful, it's a playground for kids in an instant, and our little readers of Wei C can't help but get excited when they see the drawing board, pick up the paintbrush and give full play to their talents. ▼
▲ Reader Sibao's father took a group photo with Miss C, and his daughter drew in front of the easel
On site, we can also DIY food and turn Van Gogh's paintings into dishes. It's easy: put a toasted soft toast on a plate and spread a variety of jams according to your creativity, and the artistic atmosphere is full of atmosphere. ▼
▲Miss C and the child are drawing
This time, I came to the scene as an invited speaker and shared a speech entitled "Giving Star Children a Brilliant World with Brilliant Colors".
Here's what I've shared, with slight cuts:
| Give the children of the stars a splendid world with brilliant colors
Anyone who knows me well knows that the day before the Lantern Festival in 2015 I quit my job at a newspaper office, and the next day I started posting my artistic lifestyle under a public name called "Art Dimension C." The reason why it is called "Art Dimension C" is because many people think that art is very cold and far away, but in my opinion, art is like the daily vitamin C, which is everywhere in life.
In the 14 years from attending the Academy of Fine Arts to working, I was immersed in the world of art, and there were still 4 years before I could become an adult (laughs). It sounds quite long, but when you pull your fingers, time actually passes quickly.
In 14 years of clinical experience, the question I've been asked the most is: What is the use of art?
For example, art gives people a pleasant sense of beauty.
Imagine when you're tired and tired, when you're desperate, when you're misunderstood, when you're arguing with your family and you want to complain, and you suddenly hear a song, or you see a painting and you feel "so beautiful." That's when your sense of aesthetic pleasure comes into play. Beauty makes your heart burn a long-extinguished fire, a kind of expectation for life. This is the beauty of art.
I remember seeing van Gokwan works for the first time in foreign museums, especially when I saw "Starry Sky", I couldn't even take my feet. Van Gogh's paintings naturally make people excited, make people cry, and make people feel a sense of artistic emotion of life...
Why is it that when you see Van Gogh's paintings, the shock is stronger than that of other painters? This has to do with the brilliant colors presented in his paintings.
Psychologists believe that people's first feeling is vision, and the biggest impact on vision is color. The reason why people's behavior is affected by color is because people's behavior is often easily dominated by emotions. Color can affect brain waves, and our brain waves respond to red as alert and blue as they respond to relaxation. At present, human beings can see 7 million colors, that is, we are baptized by color all the time.
The color in the world is roughly produced by the two color systems of cold and warm, the cool color is: blue, green, purple, etc.; the warm color is red, orange and so on. Different colors have different psychological cues, and studies have shown that blue is the most relaxing color.
▲This exhibition shows children's works
The reason why Van Gogh's "Starry Sky" is pleasant is that its picture is mostly composed of blue, blue mountains, blue houses, blue night sky, and occasionally some yellow stars...
Many years ago, the phrase "as long as there is sand in the heart, everywhere is the Maldives" quickly became popular because everyone yearns for the comfortable blue sky and the sunshine of the sea, assuming that we are in a beautiful environment surrounded by a blue ocean.
I have a little Tip that is especially useful in the workplace. If your meeting is long and boring, I suggest that the company's conference room is best decorated in blue, such as using blue curtains, blue chairs, blue meeting notebooks... The blue environment is soothing and relaxes the atmosphere of the meeting.
In addition to blue, other colors also have different hints to the psychology: red has the effect of soothing emotions, green can improve the efficiency of eliminating fatigue, pink has the effect of soothing emotions, and yellow makes people feel bright, like seeing stimulants.
But not all children like yellow, there is a special kind of children who think yellow is too bright, too exciting! They prefer blue versus red.
These children can't understand the adults, and they can't express their thoughts smoothly, but they have their own attachments. These children develop a disease called autism (also known as autism).
According to media reports, the study shows that the number of autistic children in China is more than 1.6 million. These children are called "children of the stars", and they are like stars in the sky, living in their own world. Behind this romantic name, there is a heavy family. Many parents have to work 120,000 more efforts than others to let their children have a happy childhood.
It is said that autism cannot be cured by medicine at present, but good positive behavior intervention can improve their symptoms very well, and many children with autism have integrated into society through rehabilitation education and started an independent life.
Among the many means of rehabilitation, "art therapy" is undoubtedly the most warm one.
This kind of "art therapy" was born in the mid-20th century, which is a nonverbal psychological and behavioral intervention therapy mediated by artistic activities. Mainly through painting, music, sculpture and other means to help people release unspeakable emotions, control behavior, eliminate negative emotions, and then obtain physical and mental integration, cure mental illness.
In the past, many children with autism have been found to have amazing gifts in the field of art. That's because many children with autism have sensory sensitivity issues and are particularly sensitive to color.
▲ This exhibition, the work of "Star Kids"
Star children, even if they are lonely, still have their own uniqueness. As long as they dig hard and cultivate, they will have many unexpected strengths. For example, music, once listened to, you are familiar with the melody; for example, narrative, to a few keywords to make up a good story.
There have been many successful examples of artistic healing.
For example, Stephen Wiltshire, a black painter from England, was diagnosed with autism when he was three years old, but at the same time he was able to imprint the images he had seen in his mind, a function called "clear memory", which the average person can only remember for a few seconds, but Stephen can remember for a long time.
In 2001, he flew over London in a helicopter and then, in three hours, made a perfectly recreated 4-square-mile view of the city. He then spent five more days painting the whole picture of London. ▼
Another example is the son of Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe (masterpiece: personal experience), Hikaru Oi, whose language skills develop slowly but are unusually sensitive to sound. At the age of five, he imitated the tone of the commentary when he heard birds calling, and uttered the first complete sentence. His father led him on the path of learning music. His first album won the Japan Golden Disc Award.
Their stories tell you how art and courage blossom roses in the desert. Through art, we can give the children of the stars a splendid world with brilliant colors.
Of course, art healing is not only effective for children in the stars, but also for ordinary people.
When you are very tired, in addition to shopping, you can try to pick up a blue pen aimlessly, on the white paper, no matter what you draw, you can relax at once. You can even doodle, color and shape, blow ink and finger painting, doodle with your hands, open your eyes or close your eyes. You can really decompress and relax.
At this point, I would like to summarize:
God closes a door for you
Also open a window for you
Hope every star child
Find the companionship of your heart
Enjoy the warmth of life