Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'
Art exalts, fills with emotions the body and activate the mind , imagination and our suitcase of cultural references. The art it is, after all, a kind of sixth sense necessary to grow inside and to be happier.
And no, it is not an exaggeration. This report, directed by the Doctor in Economics from the UAB and professor at the University of Girona (UdG) Nela Philimon , confirms: culture makes us happy.
Essential
In this study, Ella Filimon analyzes the conclusions of Bill Ivey (former director of the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States) in which she reflects on the responsibility of governments to promote access to culture for their populations.
Filimon reinterprets Ivey's words: "the answer is to have a « expressive life » full, understood as the inheritance binomial ( what we are ) and voice ( what we can become ) . Culture and the arts can be the space of union of the two components of the binomial, because **they are an expression of our ideas and identity (inheritance) **, and also the space (voice), which allows us and experience emotions, create and transmit new values for the future . According to Ivey, a person able to strike a balance between heredity and voice can achieve happiness too . Governments should therefore promote an "expressive life" by ensuring, for example, access to culture for all."
This is not just any art gallery, it's PORN
So that you may be happier in each of your cultural trips , we have made the definitive selection: those works of art that, yes or yes, you have to see before you die.
What 22 paintings, in what cities and in what museums, to obtain full happiness and suffer that wonderful Stendhal's syndrome . Who signs up? The complete list will not leave you indifferent.
If they take away our art, they take away everything