How Art Can Change Your Life

By: Susie Hodge

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Paperback | 23 August 2022

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192 Pages

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Enlightening, challenging, and informative, visual art can also be therapeutic, reducing anxiety and stress levels, and offering perspective on the challenges that we all face in our lives. How Art Can Change Your Life introduces readers to new ways of looking at a wide range of art. Through careful examination and explanation, author Susie Hodge investigates how engaging with art and drawing can help everyone feel more connected and inspired.

From Frida Kahlo confronting her anxieties to Henri Matisse embracing happiness, and from Louise Bourgeois conquering fear to Auguste Rodin finding hope, this book will show how you too can use art to work through difficult emotions and improve your mental state. All art can broaden knowledge, give enjoyment, and challenge our assumptions; but it can also help soothe, calm, enlighten, and uplift the mind and spirit. Even art that leaves us uncomfortable can still help us to think differently and give us new perspective.

In twelve chapters, readers will learn how art can dissipate anger, help to overcome sorrow, inspire self-reflection, as well as tackle other mental challenges. Artists have been conveying aspirations, feelings, ideas, and stories for thousands of years, and this book will help everyone "read" those messages with the goal of enriching their own emotional life through art.

About the Author

Susie Hodge is a bestselling author, art historian, historian and artist. She is the author of more than ninety books for adults and children. Her previous books include Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That (2012), My Big Art Show (2014), Art in Detail (2016), Why is Art Full of Naked People? (2016), Modern Art in Detail (2017) and Painting Masterclass (2019), all published by Thames & Hudson.

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