Sound Painting- audio description in another light

When one faces the long winding queues at the door of major art museums throughout the world one can only wonder what makes people want to visit them. In general terms, Van den Berg Haarlem (2008) believes that museums raise in their visitors feelings of two kinds: personal feelings and social feelings. On a personal level, visiting museums is said to develop a feeling of entertainment, education and aesthetics; on a social level, it might involve the heightened thrill of sharing feelings, or those of superiority or inferiority in which people measure themselves to the standards of their peers; at times, such social feelings are simply lethargic; but they can also be that of the landmark when each experience is one of “a once in a life time event”. When art is the focal point, there are reasons to believe that a new set of feelings come into play because, as Monk (1990) puts it: art offers something else – depth, involvement, a new way of looking at the world that we live in, a fresh approach to what we take for granted, a chance to experience freedom of the imagination. (…) Art becomes a paradigm for whole, integrated human beings using the fullness of their resources as artists and a