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Right Hemispheric Mode of Instruction

Students enter the art room and are given several large sheets of manila paper and a graphite stick. (Experimental art materials activity suggested without predetermined outcome defined.)
Class is taken outdoor to an area of old cracked concrete sidewalk or playground and told to make texture rubbings of interesting.

(Configurational hunting without naming activity)

 

Upon returning to classroom students are to shown examples of the Frottage rubbings of artist Max Ernst and the drawings and paintings he developed from them.

Visual, historical role modeling with authentic graphic ideation

 

 

Students are asked to select a sheet of rubbings with the most interesting shapes and lines and shape into a composition that has meaning to them.

Visual problem solving and decision making with discovery of new, original personal visual meaning.

 

Students examining cracks for lead rubbing Drawing developed by 3rd grader from rubbing

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

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