Can an artwork a day keep the doctor away? Here are 5 ways scientists say art can make you happier and healthier:
“The beautiful promises happiness,” Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, channeling the 19th-century French writerIt may surprise students of art history—who know legion examples of depressed artists, including many who took their own lives—that research repeatedly bears out a connection between art and joy, and offers a host of other mental and physical health benefits.
Here are five reasons why the amusement-averse majority may want to consider picking up a paintbrush or visiting a gallery once in a while—for their well-being, if not the love of art. They cautioned that over time, however, the gap diminished then disappeared altogether. “Whether sustained engagement in these activities differentially influences the risk of substance use requires further investigation,” they wrote.analyzed decades of research and hundreds of studies on arts and addiction, recovery, and pain management.
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