In previous writings I have said that the use of art in residential interiors designs is much the same as the use of herbs and spices in foods and cooking.

Art is not just an object placed in the aesthetic composition of a residential interior space.

Now, more benefits have come to light. Recent studies have shown that mentally unwell persons have behaved better and get well sooner in an art included environment.

Children growing up in an environment with art are nurtured more toward the beauty, sensitivity, emotional, intellectual, thinking, and analytical aspects of life.

The intellectual experience of art takes place not only when the viewer seeks to realize, comprehend, appreciate, and enjoy what the artist was attempting to do or say in their works but also what the artist didn’t say or do in their works.

For the emotional or psychological aspects of an artist’s work what thoughts, feelings, reactions, et cetera does the viewer have? How does the viewer connect with the artist’s work? What is communicated? Or not communicated? What is the viewer’s intuitional and/or gut reactions to viewing the artist’s works?

Probably, most importantly, what creativity, imagination, intelligence, talents, skills, principles of aesthetics, and materials did the artist use in creating the work of art? What is the overall quality of manifestation of every thing the artist was doing in each created work?

Each individual person is, of course, different and has various positions and view points of which all are valid and of merit in life and in the reactions to works of art. One size, or one reaction, or one interpretation does not fit every one.

In addition to the aesthetics of art in a residential interior environment, you can now look for the other aspects and raise yourself to a higher level of the total experience. After all, isn’t that a big part of what life is about – improving and raising the quality of our life’s experiences?

Food for thought.