5 thoughts on “Practice”

1. Practices focusing mainly on meaning.
   Focus on study/visual art.
   I hope to write again about a painting, I will probably choose a subject which has a left of centre political theme, which to some extent, matches my views.

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   1. Hi Norma,
      We could certainly link a page on visual art to your recent blog posts, but we need a page that states a bit more formally how visual art can be an integrating practice. Maybe you could draft some ideas for a page, then I could make sure it’s linked to the theory before publishing? You would need to select ‘new page’ from the dashboard list then save it as a draft.

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      1. Hi Robert,
         Thank you for the timely advice. I will think about how integration happens, if I have properly understood what is meant by it, in the art context. I hope I’m not on the wrong track.
         The Die Brucke movement of German artists may be a good choice? Die Brucke means a bridge in English, between art of the past and the future of art in the next generation? I will use my blog page.

2. Hi Norma,
   I don’t really know enough about ‘Die Brucke’ to comment on whether they’re a good example, though their founding metaphor seems promising. There’s a rough distinction we could make here between art as an integrative practice, which would be more about how people can use art to unify conflicting energies and beliefs (art therapy would be a good example of its use in this way), and the study of movements that might more or less be exploring a Middle Way. The former, I hope, will be part of the ‘practice’ section, and the latter more the preserve of the new ‘applications’ section. Art as an integrative practice might be better illustrated in the lives of individuals or of whole societies than in artistic movements. For example, in the case of Van Gogh, it seems to have held off the effects of serious madness for a while. In wider society, I was very struck by the play ‘The Pitmen Painters’ about the possible uses of art in overcoming class barriers. It would be possible to discuss the integrative effects of art either in a very individual way or quite a social way (see the ‘Individual and social integration’ page).

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   1. Thank you very much Robert for your comment, which I came across today. I was on the wrong track, I understand now what you mean, when you use the Van Gogh example. I haven’t seen the play you mention, but see its relevance.
      The Die Brucke group of artists may be of interest, they were forerunners of German Expressionism. I’ll add a short blog about one of the group’s artists shortly.
      I think I will use a very personal application of art as therapy in a blog afterwards.

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