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Principle #2:

All effective visual learning must be consistent with the thinking skills of productive artists.

Fitting Artists' Methods and Brain Dominance

Compare what is known about how the brain functions and the visual thinking equivalent in the sources, preparatory work, final art works, and verbal statements by the individuals (renowned artists) who have created the outstanding examples of visual arts.

CONSIDER: Renowned artists have long intuitively understood and relied upon a balance of mental processes that are right hemispheric mode in character. This mode of thinking must then be balanced and coordinated with the more dominant left hemispheric mode of thinking.

"It was during the first few years that we realized the presence of a dualism deep down within us, where another person, whom we ourselves do not know, tends, at the moment of the creative act, to supplant the person we believe ourselves to be and would like to be. It is difficult to bring these two individualities into accord, yet it is upon their accord that the development of a personality largely depends." - Gino Severini

Researching Artists' Thinking Modes

 

Principles

1. Metacontol

Verbal Instructions

Visual Instructions

Betty Edward's Principle

Process Specific Hemispheres

I. Process Specific Functions

II. Process Specific Functions

2. Artists' Methods

Thinking Modes

3. Right Mode Processes

Left Hemispheric Mode Problems

Right Hemispheric Mode Problems

4. Visual Cognition

Basic Knowledge

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