COURSE OBJECTIVES
Participants will:
- develop basic skills and gain confidence and pleasure in drawing and painting
- develop spontaneity and a willingness to take risks when creating art
- understand the process of artistic creativity and its theoretical underpinnings through practical experience and introduction to theories of creativity
- develop the ability to express ideas, feelings and emotions visually (non verbally) in a variety of art media
- deepen and extend their understanding and appreciation of the formal elements and principles of art
- gain confidence in making qualitative judgments about art based on knowledge and personal experience
- enhance and/or increase their general creativity through a series of creative experiences that encourage imagination and originality
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perceive and recognize the revelevance of creative artistic experience to their own areas of expertise and recognize ways in which this can constructively influence/benefit their work as educators.
PROGRAM OUTLINE UNITS OF STUDY
| Unit One |
Creativity: definition -introduction to basic theories and concepts. |
| Unit Two |
Objective Realism - Abstraction. A comparative study. |
| Unit Three |
Brain research as it relates to visual perception and artistic creativity. |
| Unit Four |
Assessment-appraisal-critical judgment and awareness. |
| Unit Five |
Practical involvement. |
Unit One: Creativity: definition - introduction to basic theories and concepts
- Early and recent theories of creativity
- Definition (a class project/consensus)
- Practical exercise in creativity
- Discussion and analysis
Unit Two: Objective Realism and Abstraction - A comparative study.
- Study of examples from art history
- Practical work in both areas (abstraction-realism)
- Analysis/critique
- Theoretical and historical background
Unit Three: Brain research as it relates to visual perception and artistic creativity
- Drawing on the right side of the Brain , by Betty Edwards
- Drawing on the Artist Within , by Betty Edwards
- The Hidden Order of Art , by Anton Ehrensweig
- On Not Being Able to PAINT , byMarian Milner
Practical experimental work on engaging the Right Side of brain:
- guided contour drawing
- positive and negative space
- perspective
- light and shadow
- self expression
- Group Critique
Unit Four: - Assessment-appraisal-critical judgment and awareness.
- Elements and principles of art
- Motivation: integrity, honesty, candor, therapy
- Inner and extrinsic factors: gthe inner needh (Kandinsky, 1912), historical period- - Social factors- cultural factors- the advancement of art.
Unit Five: Practical involvement
- How to begin
- Developing creative potential to the fullest extent
- Sustaining creativity
- Spontaneity
- Practice and judgment
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