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Implications of Brain Laterality and Dominance for Art Education

 

Review the brain processes presented in this section and ask yourself:

"What type of strategies must a teacher use to help students learn to think like a disciplined artist?"

 

"If you wish to get the right hemisphere to contribute you must give the brain a task which the left hemisphere will refuse to handle." Dr. Betty Edwards

Being an artist involves both the processes of the left and right hemispheres. Art is a whole brained activity.

"The subconscious may greatly shape ane's art; undoubtedly it does so. But the subconscious cannot create art. The very act of making a painting is an intending one; thus to intend and at the same time to relinquish intention is a hopeless contradiction albeit one that is exhibited on every hand." Ben Shahn

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Principles

Basic Knowledge

Discovering

Divided Brain

Two Hemispheric Functions

Experiment #1

Experiment #2

Growth - Birth - 9

K-3

9-Adolescence

Adulthood

Negative Views of Right Hemisphere

I. Negative Views Continued

II. More Negative Views

Process Specific Functions

Creativity and Synchronization

II. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity

III. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity

IV. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity

Getting the Two Brains Together

Implications for Art Education

II. Implications for Art Education

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