How Practising Art Can Help Improve Academics

Develop And Master The Skill

When you choose any field, you begin with the basics. For example, if you pick up painting, your journey begins with crayons, then water/poster colours and eventually graduates to canvas and oil paints. The process is about developing skills and becoming better at them. Surely you know of the proverb, ‘Rome was not built in a day.’

When you spend a few hours every day practising any art form, you are making new neural connections that transform the learning experience. As you progress towards mastering the new skill, you also become better at learning other subjects. For instance, algebraic equations can help you master the main formula and you will slowly get better with speed and accuracy.

A New Outlook

One of the most interesting aspects of being human is the ability to adapt and observe things from different perspectives. As you practise and improve your art you come across the masters of the field. For instance, if you’re learning how to play the piano, you land on the works of Glenn Gould, Bach and Beethoven.

Art has the ability to push you beyond the limits to discover and broaden your horizons. As your imagination and creativity take form, you may not realise it immediately, but you will look at experiences with new perspectives. At school for instance, if you have difficulty in a concept, your dedication and focus on your art can help you derive the same focus when you go back to the chapter, the destressing act of painting, playing flute or crocheting may give you renewed energy to focus on the “I don’t understand this physics equation” part of academics as well.

The development of a new outlook benefits you in overall aspects of your life, from academics to personality.

Boost Your Imagination And Creativity

Remember, pursuing art pushes you to be creative. We interact with a variety of ideas available to us in our lives and redefine the possibilities. It brings heart and mind together to create new things fuelling our imagination.

The way we interact with society, symbols, and beauty, and create a story out of it needs creativity and imagination. The constant mental exercise to create something new, tell a new story and entice the observer is boosting the imagination and creativity. This can help you a lot when it comes to languages. With so much understanding and knowledge, your essay writing, comprehension in English, Hindi and other languages will get better and you can score better marks in those sections of your question paper.

Sense of Accomplishment

A work of art that is completed induces a sense of accomplishment. Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Michelangelo’s David are masterpieces that the world admires but remember, it was only an idea before they became a reality. There is joy in seeing something take shape.

The confidence that you can tap into the creative potential, to create a work of art is infectious. Just imagine the sense of achievement that you will experience on seeing better grades in your report card after all the patient hard work you will put in while studying those long hours. Missing a few chat sprees on whatsapp or avoiding mindless scrolling in social media will all be worth it. Solve Problems

Practising art equips you with a mindset that is oriented towards solving problems. For instance, you could figure out more than one way to solve equations, learn periodic tables or remember anything that important chemical formulae. You find creative ways to deal with problems even in other subjects.

Practitioners of art are essentially problem solvers and this quality is the most desirable when it comes to being successful, be it in school, a job or in life.

The Passion To Create

As you grow up, you will realise it is necessary to progress. Progress happens with learning. Learning eventually leads us to create. It was learning the skills and desire to progress that led humans to create a space shuttle to explore beyond our known world; or to scale the great Himalayas. Art has a magical quotient to it, once you truly practise you are sure to be drawn to it.

When you are practising any art form, you also equip yourself with extra skills necessary to master the craft. It allows you to develop new techniques that you can use in your academics, be it trying to memorise lessons, multiplication tables or remember the important dates while studying History.

You may practise any art as a hobby, or just enjoy art education in school, remember that it is helping you in other aspects of your life as well. It will guide you to make decisions for yourself and deal with your mistakes in a graceful manner. It will also help you recognise the challenges and conundrums that come with creating masterpieces. So, dedicate yourself to an art form and see it change you for good.

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