What does art-science have to offer? What does art have to offer?

Art juxtaposes meanings that are recognizable and clear with those that are ambiguous and layered.
Contemplation/analysis leads to:

• Developing critical and creative thinking
• Meta-analysis skills
• Increased skills in detailed observation and supportive reasoning.
• Increase in speculative thinking and the consideration of multiple possibilities.
• Articulating your thoughts leads to growth

Types of art viewers, from research by research by Abigail Housen.

• senses, memories, personal associations, concrete observations, emotional linkages.
• judgments are based on what is known and what is liked.
• they seem to enter the work of art and become part of its unfolding narrative.

• build a framework for looking at works of art
• using own perceptions, knowledge of the natural world, personal values (social, moral and conventional world)
• Works valued and related to what is expected within personal world view and a sense of what is realistic.
• Emotional linkages less important, the viewer begins to distance emotionally.

• identify the work as to place, school, style, time and provenance.
• decode the work using knowledge of art history etc.
• the work of art’s meaning and message explained relative to art history classifications.

• a personal encounter with a work of art.
• Exploring the work, letting its meaning slowly unfold,
• appreciate subtleties of line and shape and color
• critical skills predominate overfeelings and intuitions -- let underlying meanings of the work—what it symbolizes—emerge.
• Each new encounter with a work of art presents a chance for new comparisons, insights, and experiences.
• Knowing that the work of art’s identity and value are subject to reinterpretation, these viewers see their own processes subject to chance and change.

• combine personal contemplation with views that broadly encompass universal concerns.