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
Principles
Basic Knowledge
Negative Views of Right Hemisphere
Creativity and Synchronization
II. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity
III. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity
Implications for Art Education
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