Analyze the process of creating works of art therapy through decoding the works of artists create works of contemporary art

Abstract

This research analyzes work procedures of artists whose art is used as a medium for gaining awareness of beauty and the creative process, a kind of psychological therapy. It provides an analytic study of the source of this art, with attention given to artists whose work was inspired by negative experiences. Background characteristics of creative works displayed by the artists are examined through encoding perceptions gleaned from art works that have reached through to the viewers from the artists who created them. The creative process of art therapy is attuned to an unconscious gain in awareness arising from this relationship, as a synthesis is built which enables therapeutic creation of visual works of art. From the outset the word “anthropology” takes on significance. This is the science whose subject is the human being, though since humanity has so many dimensions, the scope of anthropological study is vast. Its fundamental philosophy calls for understanding of ways of life both of living people and past world populations. This research extends this to the use of cognitive science as a way of understanding what it is to be human. Here it gives special attention to the artistic concepts of seven artists: Vincent Van Gogh, Mark Rothko, Marina Abramović, Joseph Kosuth, Erwin Wurm, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, and Araya Ratchamroensuk. The forms displayed in their artistic works are analyzed through an encoding of perceptions viewers have taken from them in relation to the artists who created them. The research was inspired by the widely varying forms and formats applied to create therapeutic methods unique to each artist, all of whom produced something of value to human beings with artistic syntheses of past feelings and experiences. These feelings and experiences are examined with a retrospective look at the standpoints of the persons who experienced them and the nature of their involvement. Analysis of the concepts and forms of these works leads to synthetization of a therapeutic art creation process that can be used for a human being’s personal development to become more whole and heal the spirit at its deepest levels.