Art and Me...

Art is a kind of expression that is really important for culture and for humanity so it is indeed a way to a new form of perception of live, I enjoy art because it is beautiful how I feel when I have it in front of me, since I was a kid I have visited a lot of museums in my country, I always went with my mother. I like very much to visit museums, here in Santiago I have gone to a lot of museums specially due to the bicentenary. Well I neither draw nor paint pictures in fact when I have to do so I always do my best to get a good one; I have never participated in any art competition. A lot of people have good skills in art but I do not feel jealous anyway, the modernism and art have to be together and I like very much that result because it is part of everyday life, the paints of Pablo Picasso are so good I think he was practically a genius and I find he is astonishes and he is a little weird too. The graffiti is almost used as a way of vandalism but not always happens to be part of it so it is also a form of art specially for the young people, my favorite painter is Da vinci, he is a great painter his paints are so interesting in many ways and my favourite paint is The Mona Lisa, some people say that The Mona Lisa is Da Vinci painted himself if it is real how he did it? Everybody ask themselves. There are a lot of good persons in art and it can be trough the music, sculpture and making amazing things too. The world and the universe are the biggest arts ever created.

Reading and Dementia

Today I found this interesting article about the reading and dementia.
Reading aloud to groups of people with dementia has been found to stimulate memories and imagination. Katie Clark runs Reader groups with dementia patients
The Reader runs groups with disadvantaged people of all ages and the anthology – A Little, Aloud – features the stories and poems that have proved most popular, together with anecdotes about the people who have enjoyed them.
"So I sat down a safe distance away and said, 'I'm just going to try reading this poem. If you don't like it that's fine, but let's see what you think of it.'
Clark says poetry seems to work better than prose with dementia patients. "When you read poetry aloud, you slow down. Every line is full of meaning, condensed down. At the end, people will often go back and reread one line several times."
"If one person is reading aloud, at the end the others sometimes clap or say well done. I think that's really moving."
"It's really hard when family members have developed dementia. They can't remember the people you're talking about, or even what day it is. You want to go and visit people and have a nice time with them, but what do you talk about? The book is a wonderful resource for sharing something together."
This article provides a very useful information treating somehow people with demential because sometimes most people doesn`t know to go on with those who have demential.
You can get more information in this link http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/05/reading-aloud-dementia-patients
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