Art and Medicine

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Art and Medicine
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Vocabulary

• scleroderma ???
• genuine ???????
• humanistic ?????(?)???
• intrinsic ??????
• interpretation ??????
• deteriorate ????
• disfigure ???????
• psychoanalytic ??????????
• immediate ???
• stabbing ??????????
• exhaustion ???????? 
• Measles ??
• dyspnoea ???????
• exertion ??????
• arthritic ??????????? 

• trigger ??????
• exacerbation ????
• well-being ??????
• convalesce  ??????
• sanitarium ??????
• necropsy ??????
• cremate ??
• taut ??????
• contracture ?????

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Scleroderma

• What is Scleroderma?

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Scleroderma
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Scleroderma

• The word scleroderma comes from two Greek
  words sclero meaning hard, and derma meaning
  skin.
• Chronic hardening and contraction of the skin and
  connective tissue and classified as one of the
  autoimmune rheumatic diseases
• Either locally or through out the body

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Frontal linear scleroderma
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Scleroderma

• Want to know more?
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleroderma
• Or
• http//www.scleroderma.org/medical/overview.shtm

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Endure! How Paul Klees Illness Influenced His
Art

• Paul Klee, whose abstract paintings having
  strength in composition and reminding us of
  cartoons or sketches done by children, often
  emphasized the chosen subject in a simple and
  amusing way.
• Recent critical interpretation of his
  contribution takes into social and political
  factor of his period.

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• take into considerate
• manage to

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Endure! How Paul Klees Illness Influenced His
Art

• Although his productivity declined soon after the
  diagnosis of scleroderma, Klee adapted his style
  and managed to produce more than 1000 works in
  the last years of his life. Many of these are
  regarded as immediate expression of his disease.

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Endure! How Paul Klees Illness Influenced His
Art

• According to Klees diary from he was 19 to 39,
  he was healthy except for stabbing headache.
• Despite heavy consumption of alcohol and tobacco

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Endure! How Paul Klees Illness Influenced His
Art

• What kind of lifestyle is mentioned in the
  article?

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Bohemian

• A resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia,
  either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia
  proper or in a wider meaning as the whole
  country, now known as the Czech Republic.

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Endure! How Paul Klees Illness Influenced His
Art

• Klee left no written account of his personal
  feelings during the progression of the disease.
• Letters written since 1933 suggest the presence
  of Raynaud's syndrome -a vasospastic disorder
  causing discoloration of the fingers, toes, and
  also cause nails to become brittle with
  longitudinal ridges.

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Endure! How Paul Klees Illness Influenced His
Art

• Non-specific symptoms fatigue and
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  exhaustion
• Measles
• Dyspnoea or exertion
• and arthritic pain in his
  hands
• Scleroderma(1936)

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Endure! How Paul Klees Illness Influenced His
Art

• In Febuary, 1940, Klee had a major exhibition
  where showed more than 200 works, which was not
  well received by public.
• In May, Klee went to convalesce at sanitarium,
  and then admitted to SantAgnes hospital.
• In June, Klee died of acute heart failure. But
  his medical records were destroyed by a fire at
  the hospital. Detailed state of his
  illness became a mystery.

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Endure! How Paul Klees Illness Influenced His
Art

• A photograph of Klee, taken 4 months before his
  death, shows some of typical skin abnormalities
  of scleroderma.
• Klees last drawings was entitled Durchhalten!
  (Endure!) which shows a wholly disfigured face
  resembling the photographs of the artist.

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Endure! How Paul Klees Illness Influenced His
Art

• How the author describe the skin abnormalities
  showing in photograph of Klee?

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Durchhalten! (Endure!)
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Vacabulary

• Portrait
• fMRI
• Signature
• Conned
• Bach Chorale
• Scrutiny
• Score
• Render
• Salient

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• Philistine
• Turner prize

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• Artists are born or made? What do you think?
• You can work and work and work, but if you dont
  have it inborn, then its a hopeless pursuit.
• -Woody Allen
• "There is no question in my mind that artists are
  born. Those who have less talented can be a
  follower or technician. But will never have the
  vision of a Van Gogh or someone who's a real
  innovator."
• Nancy Locke

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Artists Really Do Have Different Brains

• Humphrey Oceans brain was scanned by fMRI during
  drawing, which monitors activity in different
  parts of his brain.

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• There were activities in his occipital lobe and
  frontal lobe, which was not seen when non-artists
  carried out the task.
• Artists uses their brain to think a drawing
  while the rest of us merely copy the material.

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Do you have talent for art?

• Theres a cluck clock in your house for decades,
  and it suddenly broke down. When you see the
  clock, what position do you think the pointers
  will be?
• A. the integral point
• B. one on top of another
• C. the right angle
• D. none of above

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Cerebellum has something to do with music?

• The cerebellum is normally associated only with
  movement and balance. However, the scan showed a
  sudden burst of activity in it while the rhythm
  of chorale was altered from the score.

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Music Improves Brain Function?

• Do you play any instruments?
• How does it affect your life?

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Artists with Brain Damage
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Artists Look Different
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Summery

• Both of them spent more time looking at key
  areas.
• Non-artists tend to focus on certain objects such
  as human faces during the experiment, while
  well-trained artists prefer scanning the whole
  picture. As a result, artists will remember more
  details.
• Non-artists remember more in abstract pictures
  because artists wont change their viewing
  strategy.