Ok...my senses might be a little dull...because I admit I'm not the best painter. However, I try and that makes me a little bit of a hard charger (in relative terms). Haven't thought about it much but I guess art improves other sensory ordering mechanisms that lead to greater perceptual awareness.
They say that art tones the sensory skill and ability of people to differentiate things in their environment (work or pleasure). Ok...I guess in theory that kind of stands to reason. When you focus on visual colors, shapes, tone, etc... you are going to understand things in your perceptual field better because you built mental differentiations that would be hard to be aware of in everyday life.
Let us say for a moment that engaging in art as a "refined" activity (nothing is refined in my art yet) could impact visual acuity in other areas of visual fields. We become better at pattern recognition and greater awareness of our surroundings (That could be important in different aspects of our lives).
According to this study graduate nurse students who described art also saw more difference in patient records. Wow! The skills learned in art improved upon the ability to detect problems in patient photographs (That would likely to apply to other similar tasks). That also led to pattern recognition and visual acuity. (I bet could be extrapolated to environment. Could art be good for scientists and military decision makers? I guess someone would have to study how much art could lead to how much environmental acuity? 🤔) See Increasing Environmental Acuity Through Art.
We teach young men/women to avoid art but it is precisely those skills that lead to greater understanding of their visual fields and general skills that might range into things like sports, research, education, coordination, etc...).
Here was my attempt at impressionism. 😬🙈......
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