Art and Medicine

1. ArtandMedicine

2. Vocabulary • scleroderma 　硬皮症 • genuine　真的；名副其實的 • humanistic　人性的；人道(文)主義的 • intrinsic　固有的；本身的 • interpretation　理解；解釋；說明 • deteriorate　惡化；退化 • disfigure　損毀…的外形；毀容 • psychoanalytic　精神分析的;心理分析的 • immediate　直接的 • stabbing　突然而劇烈的；刀刺似的 • exhaustion　筋疲力盡；疲憊不堪  • Measles　麻疹 • dyspnoea【醫】呼吸困難 • exertion　努力；盡力；費力 • arthritic　患關節炎的；關節炎引起的  • trigger　發動；引起；觸發 • exacerbation　惡化;加劇 • well-being　健康；安樂；康樂 • convalesce　 逐步康復；恢復 • sanitarium　療養院；休養所 • necropsy　驗屍;屍體檢驗 • cremate　火葬 • taut　拉緊的；繃緊的 • contracture【醫】攣縮

3. Scleroderma • What is Scleroderma?

4. Scleroderma

5. 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

6. Frontal linear scleroderma

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

8. Endure! How Paul Klee’s 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.

9. take into considerate • manage to

10. Endure! How Paul Klee’s 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.

11. Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art • According to Klee’s diary from he was 19 to 39, he was healthy except for “stabbing headache”. • Despite heavy consumption of alcohol and tobacco……

12. Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art • What kind of lifestyle is mentioned in the article?

13. 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.

14. Endure! How Paul Klee’s 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.

15. Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art Non-specific symptoms: fatigue and exhaustion Measles Dyspnoea or exertion and arthritic pain in his hands Scleroderma(1936)

16. Endure! How Paul Klee’s 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 Sant’Agnes 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.

17. Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art • A photograph of Klee, taken 4 months before his death, shows some of typical skin abnormalities of scleroderma. • Klee’s last drawings was entitled Durchhalten! (Endure!) which shows a wholly disfigured face resembling the photographs of the artist.

18. Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art • How the author describe the skin abnormalities showing in photograph of Klee?

19. Durchhalten! (Endure!)

20. Vacabulary • Portrait • fMRI • Signature • Conned • Bach Chorale • Scrutiny • Score • Render • Salient

21. Philistine • Turner prize Angela De La Cruz, Stuck (2010) The region around 830 BC

22. Artists are born or made? What do you think? “You can work and work and work, but if you don’t have it inborn, then it’s 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

23. Artists Really Do Have Different Brains • Humphrey Ocean’s brain was scanned by fMRI during drawing, which monitors activity in different parts of his brain.

24. 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.

25. Doyou havetalent forart? There’s 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

26. 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.

27. Music Improves Brain Function? • Do you play any instruments? • How does it affect your life?

28. Artists with Brain Damage

29. Artists Look Different

30. 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 won’t change their viewing strategy.